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Workers face poverty in Heathrow fire and rehire storm

Friday, October 2nd, 2020

Heathrow, one of the world’s largest airports, is facing a complete shutdown this autumn, as members of Unite prepare to ballot for strike action, over the comp...

5 min

News

‘PM fails our people’

Friday, October 2nd, 2020

Boris Johnson should swap the rhetoric on UK sovereignty and taking back control for real action, starting with insisting that UK steel is used throughout the c...

4 min

News Analysis

Stop the ‘no deal car crash’

Friday, October 2nd, 2020

Ministers need to put their foot on the accelerator to get a deal with the EU that safeguards the UK automotive industry – employing about 800,000 workers direc...

5 min

Coronavirus News Feature

Heroes and zeroes

Friday, October 2nd, 2020

UniteLIVE highlights the latest heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus crisis

11 min

News

We need our steel

Thursday, October 1st, 2020

Steelworkers unite in Europe wide call for action to safeguard vital sector

4 min

News

Deliver on pay pledge call

Thursday, October 1st, 2020

Colleges must deliver on their promise to increase staff pay now the government has provided further education an extra £400m funding, said education unions inc...

3 min

Sound and Vision

Celebrate!

Thursday, October 1st, 2020

Celebrate the first day of this year's Black History Month and watch our short video below.

2 min

Coronavirus News

Don't switch us off!

Thursday, October 1st, 2020

Unite Retired and Community members in fight to save free TV licences for over 75s

5 min

Comment

Govt’s day of shame

Thursday, October 1st, 2020

Today is the annual UN Day for Older Persons, a day of celebration and recognition for a generation who have given a lifetime of work to build our nations and f...

6 min

News Feature

Unite celebrates Black History Month

Thursday, October 1st, 2020

Black History Month, which this year honours Black inventors, is now more important than ever

6 min

Comment Coronavirus

Mass unemployment still looms

Wednesday, September 30th, 2020

The Job Support Scheme measures announced on September 24 will provide some relief for some workers but more will need to be done to prevent a mass unemployment...

3 min

Coronavirus News

‘Morally repugnant’

Wednesday, September 30th, 2020

A number of Cambridge University colleges, which are targeting some of their lowest paid employees for the jobs’ axe as they juggle their Covid-19 finances, hav...

4 min

News Analysis

Chaos looms as drivers slam govt over ports paperwork Brexit shambles

Wednesday, September 30th, 2020

Angry lorry drivers have accused government minister Michael Gove, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster of ‘blame shifting’ as he tells them to prepare paperwor...

5 min

Coronavirus News Feature

‘We need a cohort of resources’

Wednesday, September 30th, 2020

As previously reported on UNITElive Danny spent nine days in Kingston Hospital, Surrey, at the end of March this year. Danny had endured the full range of the v...

9 min

News

'Penny pinching'

Wednesday, September 30th, 2020

‘Inadequate’ sick pay and worker bus fare rises at the coronavirus-hit Bernard Matthews’ turkey processing factory in Suffolk increase the risk of further Covid...

4 min