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Secret shame of Crossrail’s way to boost profits

Thursday, April 22nd, 2021

Unite has learned that secret changes to the way procurement rules operate on the heavily delayed Crossrail project mean that contractors are able to ignore pre...

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‘It’s time to be bold’

Thursday, April 22nd, 2021

I am a fighter and I am standing for our people. I was born and raised in the Tees Valley, worked as a retail worker, youth worker and went on to start a charit...

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JDE 'acting like employer from Victorian times'

Wednesday, April 21st, 2021

Summer holidays ban’ for Banbury coffee workers to thwart industrial action in ‘fire and rehire’ row, claims Unite

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Dyson tax text scandal

Wednesday, April 21st, 2021

PM’s Dyson tax texts encapsulates ‘lobbying and sleaze’ that failed UK manufacturing workers

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'JDE can't say they're struggling'

Tuesday, April 20th, 2021

Unite regional officer Chris Gray: Jacob Douwe Egberts fire and rehire tactics 'splitting up families'

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'Slap in the face to long-serving workforce'

Tuesday, April 20th, 2021

Unite to fight to save jobs as Argos announces closure of Somerset distribution centre

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NHS at real risk of sell off to ‘profit-hungry’ US firms

Tuesday, April 20th, 2021

In just two days’ time Unite GPs will be making a stand. The protest is against GP practices being taken over by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation –...

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'Year of jobs destruction'

Tuesday, April 20th, 2021

Number of people on UK company payrolls has plummeted by 800k since pandemic began

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Plymouth tugboat crew strike continues

Monday, April 19th, 2021

Devonport naval base faces more disruption as tugboat crew to strike again for 24 hours in rostering row

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Lobbying rules 'a shoddy farce'

Monday, April 19th, 2021

Independent inquiry into NHS lobbying urgently needed, says Unite

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London United bus workers out in full force on the picket line

Friday, April 16th, 2021

London United bus workers out in full force on strike in ongoing dispute over pay

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Black Friday 1921: One hundred years on the unemployed still need to organise  

Friday, April 16th, 2021

Mention Black Friday today and most people will conjure up images of bargain-hunting shoppers grappling with each other for discounted consumer goods. But 100 y...

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‘Fighting its’ members corner’

Friday, April 16th, 2021

Staff members at The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have voted overwhelmingly in favour of Unite being their recognised trade union to represent ...

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Fancy a coffee?

Friday, April 16th, 2021

Nearly 300 employees at the JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) site in Banbury, Oxfordshire, will start a continuous overtime ban from Saturday 1 May over ‘fire and reh...

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Support pandemic domestic abuse victims call

Thursday, April 15th, 2021

The increase in domestic abuse across the general population caused by the pressures of the pandemic has prompted Unite the union to write to all 32 London boro...

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Fresh London bus strikes as peace talks fail

Thursday, April 15th, 2021

Londoners face fresh public transport disruption as Unite announced further strike action involving bus drivers employed by London United, a subsidiary of the F...

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‘Leeching the public purse’

Thursday, April 15th, 2021

Serco civil enforcement officers in Ealing have voted to strike over the targeting of union activists in the latest in a series of industrial disputes to hit th...

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'There has to be a reckoning'

Thursday, April 15th, 2021

The revelations over scandal-hit Greensill Capital and the role of David Cameron should set alarm bells ringing about the accelerating pace of NHS privatisation...

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