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'Amazing victory'
Monday, September 14th, 2020
Topshop's Arcadia retail firm U-turns on redundancy pay after Unite intervenes
3 min
Chancellor – don’t walk away
Monday, September 14th, 2020
This year’s 152nd TUC conference in London may be very different as it’s being held on line – but the messages trade unions including Unite are making are cryst...
5 min
‘Chaos and confusion’
Monday, September 14th, 2020
“Given that employers, customs agents and drivers will have to familiarise themselves with complex new border arrangements, it is completely unacceptable that l...
5 min
‘Congress must speak as one on Covid – our class will not pay for another crisis’
Monday, September 14th, 2020
Has the Covid-19 crisis really given us no option other than to brace ourselves for a “necessary period of adjustment”? Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Ba...
6 min
Early NHS pay rise call
Friday, September 11th, 2020
Unite calls for a ‘well-deserved’ 15 per cent pay rise or £3,000 for NHS staff on the Covid-19 frontline
4 min
‘Afraid to take sick leave’
Friday, September 11th, 2020
Unite warns Norfolk’s Banham Poultry refusal to provide company sick pay increases risk of another outbreak
4 min
'Disgraceful behaviour must stop'
Friday, September 11th, 2020
Unite London and Eastern cab section condemns abusive behaviour of London cabbies outside City Hall
3 min
Momentum grows for furlough scheme extension
Friday, September 11th, 2020
MPs join mounting call for job retention measures to avert employment crisis
4 min
Heroes and zeroes
Friday, September 11th, 2020
UniteLIVE highlights the latest heroes and zeroes amid coronavirus crisis
11 min
'Economic and environmental vandalism'
Thursday, September 10th, 2020
Unite slams government denying permission to new open cast coal mine
3 min
Track and trace doomed to fail unless sick pay raised
Thursday, September 10th, 2020
Majority of workers would face financial hardship if forced to self-isolate on SSP
6 min
'No more excuses'
Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
Unite members and MPs demand govt extends furlough scheme
10 min
Gatwick job losses mount
Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
6000 job losses at 'ghost town' Gatwick airport demonstrates devastation in UK aviation
4 min
FSS SOS
Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
A £1.5 billion contract to build Royal Navy fleet solid support ships (FSS) that has been opened to overseas shipyards must go to domestic firms if UK shipbuild...
4 min
Covid smokescreen used to slash pay
Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
Unite has launched an international campaign today (September 9) to stop the owners of the Manchester bus company Go North West from using Covid-19 as cover for...
4 min
Unite plea to PM: ‘Don’t abandon us’
Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
With Spain becoming the latest country to extend its pay protection scheme “for as long as it takes” – following Germany, the Netherlands and France – the UK go...
6 min
'Do not abandon us'
Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
Unite reiterates furlough extension call on eve of SOS for Jobs rally, as new figures show UK employers planned 300k redundancies in June and July
8 min
SOS for jobs
Monday, September 7th, 2020
New Unite SOS for Jobs campaign heads to Parliament as UK workers urge PM ‘don't abandon us'
4 min