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nhs

Low paid East Kent Hospitals workers ballot for strike

Thursday, December 1st, 2022

Staff employed by 2Gether private contractor offered ‘significant pay cut presented as a rise’

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Unite GS blasts failure to rein in energy profiteers

Wednesday, November 30th, 2022

Ofgem price review: 8 in 10 people & BEIS Committee Chair join Unite in demanding price review is now re-opened

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Workers expose Quorn’s tattered ethical credentials

Wednesday, November 30th, 2022

Striking Quorn Teesside staff reject billion pound business’s pay ‘cut’ amid protest at Plant Based World Expo

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Strikes escalate at Fawley refinery

Tuesday, November 29th, 2022

Heavy-handed policing deepens tensions as workers continue striking over Exxon’s bonus payments refusal

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Rugby GE Steam workers celebrate pay win

Tuesday, November 29th, 2022

Long-running Rugby GE Steam dispute ends after Unite secures winning pay deal, with workers set for over £15k each

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NHS crisis deepens

Friday, November 25th, 2022

Unite ballots thousands more NHS workers for strike in early 2023

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West Midlands Metro workers celebrate pay win

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022

West Midlands Metro strike ends as tram drivers earn 20 per cent pay increase

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NHS Scotland plans to make wealthy pay 'sickening'

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022

Two-tier health service would destroy NHS with poorer patients ‘lives worth less’

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electric vehicles

Race to save auto jobs

Monday, November 21st, 2022

Unite GS blasts industry and government as third of auto workers are ‘not confident’ that their workplace will survive the transition to electrification

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Arrow XL workers to protest

Monday, November 21st, 2022

Unite to stage demonstration in Liverpool as poverty pay strikes continue

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'Serco the Scrooge'

Monday, November 21st, 2022

Outsourcing firm Serco faces a coordinated fightback across London

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nhs

Government letter indicates 2% NHS pay offer ‘likely’

Monday, November 21st, 2022

Unite says NHS pay review body's independence compromised after 12 years of carrying out Tory bidding

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Pull the plug on energy profiteers call

Monday, November 21st, 2022

Unite says Ofgem must re-open its price review and set a clear cap on distributor profits

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lorry driver

World Toilet Day: gov't fails on lorry driver toilet improvement promises

Saturday, November 19th, 2022

Rishi Sunak’s multi-million pound truck stop improvement scheme is unspent

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Heathrow ground handlers in strike action

Friday, November 18th, 2022

Heathrow braced for major disruption as Menzies ground handlers begin strike action in pay dispute

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Sainsbury's

Bakkavor food manufacturing workers to strike

Friday, November 18th, 2022

Sainsbury, Tesco and M&S Xmas supplies hit by Lincolnshire factory poverty pay strikes

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toilet

Unite to protest on World Toilet Day

Friday, November 18th, 2022

Unite stages demonstration over Lincolnshire MoD toilet shame

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Harrods can 'absolutely afford' pay rise for security staff

Friday, November 18th, 2022

No Harrods’ CCTV or security over festive shopping period during pay strikes

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