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Thursday, October 8th, 2020

Last month Heathrow Airports Ltd (HAL) issued a section 188 notice beginning a process which could result in over 4,000 workers directly employed by the airport...

News Analysis

Thursday, October 8th, 2020

Horrific pay cuts of up to £8,000 a year being imposed on thousands of Heathrow airport workers are the cost of eye-watering levels of debt and excessive paymen...

News

Thursday, October 8th, 2020

Workers at XPO Logistics report unsafe working conditions, wage theft, misclassification and dangerous pandemic response in analysis of company’s operations in ...

News

Wednesday, October 7th, 2020

The Seagate workforce, based in Derry/Londonderry has been left anxious over an inadequate management response to the Covid-19 outbreak. Staff have been informe...

News

Wednesday, October 7th, 2020

Responding to the announcement today (October 7) that Manchester Airport is intending to make dramatic job cuts Unite, the principal aviation union, has said it...

News

Wednesday, October 7th, 2020

The decision taken by the union’s governing body, its Executive Council, will see Unite’s affiliation to the party drop by 10 per cent, or 50,000 affiliates – a...

News Feature

Tuesday, October 6th, 2020

Unite’s Unity over Division (UoD) campaign has received yet another boost after Caerphilly County Borough Council in Wales became the second employer to sign th...

News

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 ...

News

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...

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...

News

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...

News Analysis

Tuesday, October 6th, 2020

Prime minister Boris Johnson’s pledge that every UK home will be powered by electricity from offshore wind farms by 2030 revealed ‘a poverty of ambition’, compa...

News Analysis

Tuesday, October 6th, 2020

In another bad day (October 6) for the finance sector job losses are announced in finance firm LV and JN bank. The moves have been roundly condemned by Unite.

News

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...

Comment

Monday, October 5th, 2020

“I’m afraid to say that when the country hungers for a hearty diet of jobs saving and creation, the chancellor has offered little more than thin gruel for fearf...

Comment

Monday, October 5th, 2020

Thirty years ago, Norman Lamont was telling us high unemployment was a ‘price worth paying’ for his head-banger economics. Now we have Rishi Sunak.  A better c...

Comment

Monday, October 5th, 2020

The battle to save jobs is the most important social and economic issue emerging from the pandemic and we’re in a full-on struggle to save jobs across the econo...

News

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...