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Unite supports 'no confidence' vote in Jersey's chief minister

Monday, November 9th, 2020

Unite supports vote of no confidence in Jersey’s chief minister in row over chief executive’s second job

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'We've been left with no alternative'

Monday, November 9th, 2020

Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick workers begin strike action in fight to save their historic plant

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'Using Covid-19 as a cloak to justify jobs’ cull'

Friday, November 6th, 2020

Closure of Alexander Dennis plant in Guildford with 200 job losses ‘cynically fast tracked’, says Unite

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Spycops latest

Friday, November 6th, 2020

Trade unionists were spied on by undercover police officers ‘for decades’ undercover police inquiry hears

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Halt Rolls-Royce job losses call

Thursday, November 5th, 2020

Rolls-Royce urged to use furlough extension until March to safeguard UK jobs under threat

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Caterpillar job losses 'devastating blow'

Thursday, November 5th, 2020

Unite blasts 700 job losses at Caterpillar sites across Northern Ireland as a 'scandalous profit grab'

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'Misery' for deaf communities

Thursday, November 5th, 2020

Unite slams 'opportunistic’ sign language service attacks during pandemic

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Doncaster braced for Christmas bin strikes

Thursday, November 5th, 2020

Unite to ballot refuse worker members over strike action in bullying and harassment dispute

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Major job losses announced at LBG

Wednesday, November 4th, 2020

Unite brands 1,000 LBG job cuts a 'shameful decision'

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Heathrow catering firm named and shamed

Wednesday, November 4th, 2020

Heathrow catering company DO & CO snubs furlough extension and plans to sack more than 1,000 workers

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School support staff and nurses' safety paramount

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020

School support staff must be fully protected or action will be taken, warns Unite

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Biomedical scientists being 'ripped off'

Monday, November 2nd, 2020

Biomedical scientists carrying out Covid-19 tests at Lancashire NHS trust ‘short-changed’ by £7,000-a-year

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Covid by nation

Monday, November 2nd, 2020

As you will be aware England will go into a second lockdown from 00:01 GMT Thursday  November 5. Information from the Cabinet Office on the new national restric...

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'Stop gap deal'

Monday, November 2nd, 2020

Unite cautiously welcomes TfL funding deal – but calls for long-term plan

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UK faces ‘a winter of shrunken incomes and punishing uncertainty’ warns Unite

Saturday, October 31st, 2020

As the Jobs Retention Scheme closes the leader of the country’s leading trades union has called on the government to give an exhausted country some hope by brin...

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Uber ‘is just heaping on the pressure’

Tuesday, October 27th, 2020

Local taxi drivers will launch a campaign to call for action against the proliferation of London-based Uber vehicles in and around Gatwick and Crawley – which a...

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Unite will not let ‘cradle of the jet engine’ die

Monday, October 26th, 2020

Workers at the historic Rolls-Royce factory at Barnoldswick in Lancashire will embark on three weeks of targeted strike action beginning next month, as part of ...

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'Selflessness, kindness, togetherness'

Friday, October 23rd, 2020

Determined Marcus Rashford inspires businesses and local councils to step in after government rejects free school meals extension

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