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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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‘Morally repugnant’
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
A number of Cambridge University colleges, which are targeting some of their lowest paid employees for the jobs’ axe as they juggle their Covid-19 finances, hav...
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'Penny pinching'
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
‘Inadequate’ sick pay and worker bus fare rises at the coronavirus-hit Bernard Matthews’ turkey processing factory in Suffolk increase the risk of further Covid...
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Rolls-Royce plant 'heart and soul' of local jobs
Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
Workforce balloting on strike action to save historic Lancashire Rolls-Royce factory
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'Wake up call' for rogue employers
Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
Legal case against Lancashire electronic firm warning to employers abusing furlough
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Unite victory on remote sign-on
Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
Major London bus operator rules out remote sign on
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'Lifetime skills guarantee' won't make up for mass unemployment
Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
New lifelong learning package ‘will not give workers skills and support they need’ amid crisis
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'Sad day for London's travelling public'
Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
Unite slams court decision granting Uber in London new licence to operate despite safety failings
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