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Strike action taking off at Heathrow?

Friday, January 17th, 2020

Heathrow baggage handlers from two separate firms angry over pay

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Flybe latest: regional airlines play crucial role

Friday, January 17th, 2020

Government Flybe review must develop a coherent regional transport strategy

3 min

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'Grim reading'

Friday, January 17th, 2020

Audit Office Carillion hospital report highlights government failure to restart projects

3 min

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Car parts factory 'has viable future'

Wednesday, January 15th, 2020

Unite committed to reverse decision to close Antolin Interiors factory

3 min

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'Lessons not learned'

Wednesday, January 15th, 2020

Carillion collapse two years on — hospitals unfinished and guilty unpunished

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Beer drinkers to face ‘short measures’?

Tuesday, January 14th, 2020

Greene King workers vote for strike action over 'paltry' pay offer

3 min

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'Something is clearly wrong'

Tuesday, January 14th, 2020

Local authorities must bring Sanctuary Care contracts ‘back in-house’

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'Incredibly unsettling'

Monday, January 13th, 2020

Unite seeks urgent meeting with Flybe management amid press speculation

3 min

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British Steel sale talks

Friday, January 10th, 2020

Trade unions, including Unite, stressed today (10 January) that for British Steel to be successful it must retain “high quality jobs” after a meeting with Jingy...

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'Almost unthinkable'

Friday, January 10th, 2020

December sees worst A&E wait times on record with 2,347 patients waiting 12 hours or more

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'Unfair and unjust' pay cut

Friday, January 10th, 2020

Lifeguards at Blackburn and Darwen leisure centres to strike over £3,000 a year pay cut

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Short time working threat

Friday, January 10th, 2020

Unite: short time working at Michelin’s Stoke factory must be minimised

3 min

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Sheerness dock strike suspended

Thursday, January 9th, 2020

Drivers at logistics firm GB Terminals (Southern) Ltd based at Sheerness docks, Kent, have postponed scheduled strike action after the firm agreed to talks medi...

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Hitachi job losses

Thursday, January 9th, 2020

Unite has challenged the government to radically review its procurement policies after the Hitachi Rail company in Newton Aycliffe County Durham announced a qua...

3 min

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construction

Forced to look for new work

Thursday, January 9th, 2020

Liverpool construction fraud probe bad news for workforce

3 min

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Underpaid electricians 'have had enough'

Thursday, January 9th, 2020

Sandwell council tenants face ‘sitting in the dark’ after electricians vote to strike

3 min

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Liberty Steel job losses

Thursday, January 9th, 2020

Liberty Steel announces 350 job losses in South Yorkshire and South Wales

4 min

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wages

Wage theft scandal

Wednesday, January 8th, 2020

One in four workers on minimum wage illegally underpaid

4 min

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