"More support is needed to save jobs and protect incomes"
Friday, October 9th, 2020
Gov’t will pay two-thirds of workers’ wages for business forced to shut under Covid-19 restrictions
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'Crying out for support'
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
easyJet call for bespoke government support echoed across entire aviation sector
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'Dangers as well as opportunities' for home workers
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Unite: rise in homeworking requires negotiation and agreement not imposition
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XPO EXPOSED
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Workers at XPO Logistics report unsafe working conditions, wage theft, misclassification and dangerous pandemic response in analysis of company’s operations in ...
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Anxious workforce in Covid-19 outbreak
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
The Seagate workforce, based in Derry/Londonderry has been left anxious over an inadequate management response to the Covid-19 outbreak. Staff have been informe...
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‘A bitter blow’
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
Responding to the announcement today (October 7) that Manchester Airport is intending to make dramatic job cuts Unite, the principal aviation union, has said it...
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‘Nurture newer voices’
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
The decision taken by the union’s governing body, its Executive Council, will see Unite’s affiliation to the party drop by 10 per cent, or 50,000 affiliates – a...
3 min
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Take bins back in-house call
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
Bexley councillors have been urged to jettison the controversial Serco refuse contract, as about 140 refuse workers gear up for a strike ballot over health and ...
3 min
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‘Heathrow is exploiting the pandemic’
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
At a meeting with Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) yesterday (Monday 5 October), MPs representing constituencies around the airport challenged chief executive officer...
4 min
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‘Grim news’
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
The news that 140 jobs at Magellan Aerospace’s operation in Bournemouth will be lost when the site closes next February is ‘a devastating blow’ to the Dorset ec...
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Fuel drivers to strike?
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
Fuel tanker drivers, employed by Hoyer Petrolog UK, and members of the Unite union, are balloting for industrial action in a dispute over job cuts and attacks o...
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Broken pay deal prompts strike
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Workers paid below industry standard at Leeds-based bus manufacturer Optare have voted in favour of strike action over the company’s ‘broken promise’ to provide...
4 min
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Bernard Matthews bus win
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
Bernard Matthews has suspended fares on company-subsidised buses to all of its sites to help prevent the spread of coronavirus through car sharing, following pr...
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Workers face poverty in Heathrow fire and rehire storm
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
Heathrow, one of the world’s largest airports, is facing a complete shutdown this autumn, as members of Unite prepare to ballot for strike action, over the comp...
5 min
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‘PM fails our people’
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
Boris Johnson should swap the rhetoric on UK sovereignty and taking back control for real action, starting with insisting that UK steel is used throughout the c...
4 min
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We need our steel
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Steelworkers unite in Europe wide call for action to safeguard vital sector
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Deliver on pay pledge call
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Colleges must deliver on their promise to increase staff pay now the government has provided further education an extra £400m funding, said education unions inc...
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Don't switch us off!
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Unite Retired and Community members in fight to save free TV licences for over 75s
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