Coffee workers’ terms row May Day demo
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
Workers at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury are ramping up pressure in the ‘fire and rehire’ dispute with a protest on Saturday (May 1), followed up with a...
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Failed pay promises
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Biomedical scientists have been on the frontline of Covid-19 testing during the past year.
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Deeply disturbing
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Agriculture has long been considered the most dangerous sector in the UK, with fatality rates 18 times the national average.
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Remembered and honoured
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Tomorrow (Wednesday 28 April) on International Workers’ Memorial Day, Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, will join Unite families who have lost loved ones ...
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Ministers in soup over pressures on chefs
Monday, April 26th, 2021
Ministers need to tighten up the legislation to stop chefs - one of the groups of employees most hit by Covid-19 – from being pressurised into working more than...
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Hotel workers say no to ‘fire and re-hire’
Monday, April 26th, 2021
Unite, which represents thousands of workers in the hotel sector, held socially distanced demonstrations today (26 April) outside the flagship hotels of Interco...
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Win for Sheffield University Students' Union workers
Friday, April 23rd, 2021
Unite victory for workers on zero hours at Sheffield University Students' Union
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“Our members know their worth"
Friday, April 23rd, 2021
Engineers at Melrose-owned Brush Electrical in strike ballot over fire and rehire cuts of up to £15,000
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‘No remote sign on. Full stop’
Friday, April 23rd, 2021
London bus operator Metroline has until 10 May to permanently drop its controversial ‘remote sign on’ policy – or it will face a summer of strikes, Unite warned...
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Secret shame of Crossrail’s way to boost profits
Thursday, April 22nd, 2021
Unite has learned that secret changes to the way procurement rules operate on the heavily delayed Crossrail project mean that contractors are able to ignore pre...
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JDE 'acting like employer from Victorian times'
Wednesday, April 21st, 2021
Summer holidays ban’ for Banbury coffee workers to thwart industrial action in ‘fire and rehire’ row, claims Unite
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Dyson tax text scandal
Wednesday, April 21st, 2021
PM’s Dyson tax texts encapsulates ‘lobbying and sleaze’ that failed UK manufacturing workers
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'Slap in the face to long-serving workforce'
Tuesday, April 20th, 2021
Unite to fight to save jobs as Argos announces closure of Somerset distribution centre
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NHS at real risk of sell off to ‘profit-hungry’ US firms
Tuesday, April 20th, 2021
In just two days’ time Unite GPs will be making a stand. The protest is against GP practices being taken over by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation –...
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'Year of jobs destruction'
Tuesday, April 20th, 2021
Number of people on UK company payrolls has plummeted by 800k since pandemic began
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Plymouth tugboat crew strike continues
Monday, April 19th, 2021
Devonport naval base faces more disruption as tugboat crew to strike again for 24 hours in rostering row
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Lobbying rules 'a shoddy farce'
Monday, April 19th, 2021
Independent inquiry into NHS lobbying urgently needed, says Unite
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‘Fighting its’ members corner’
Friday, April 16th, 2021
Staff members at The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have voted overwhelmingly in favour of Unite being their recognised trade union to represent ...
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