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Short notice shifts are damaging workers’ health and families
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Unite has warned that the failure of many businesses to provide adequate notice of shift patterns is damaging workers’ health and destroying family lives.
4 min
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Unite urges govt to be careful over compulsory vacs
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Unite has urged the government to carefully examine the pitfalls, as well as the advantages, of requiring care home staff to be compulsorily vaccinated for Covi...
3 min
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Outlaw fire and rehire plea to Mayors
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Unite today (Thursday April 15) called on the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan to publicly back a declaration to ou...
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GS election 2021
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Yesterday (April 14) the Unite Executive Council set in hand the election process for a new Unite general secretary.
2 min
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Hospitality is back – but job loss pain remains
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Pubs and restos are now open outdoors – but 600k jobs in industry have gone
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‘Strength and solidarity’ of members hailed
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Strikes at aerospace parts firm SPS Technologies have been called off after a deal was reached to end ‘fire and rehire’ threats that would have resulted in its ...
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Remote sign on should be ‘jettisoned’ call
Monday, April 12th, 2021
More than 4,000 bus drivers working for Metroline in London have overwhelmingly voted for strike action over the controversial ‘remote sign-on’ policy, Unite sa...
4 min
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Unite warns Amazon against using anti-union tactics
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Amazon urged to commit to declaration of neutrality amid Unite campaign to give Amazon workers a real voice
3 min
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Urgent support for aviation call
Friday, April 9th, 2021
Commenting on the government’s plan to force holidaymakers to pay around £120 each for Covid tests to travel abroad this summer, Unite assistant general secreta...
3 min
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Don’t push workers into poverty
Friday, April 9th, 2021
A London tour guide approached me recently near to the office. He was a Unite member and wanted to know what we have been doing for the past year to help sel...
7 min
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St Mungo's maintenance staff to strike
Thursday, April 8th, 2021
Maintenance workers at the St Mungo’s housing charity will begin indefinite strike action from Thursday 22 April in response to ‘appalling treatment’ by senior ...
3 min
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Estate agents using Goodlord ‘facing further pain’
Thursday, April 8th, 2021
London estate agents using services from Goodlord are ‘facing further pain’ after striking workers from the lettings software provider were balloted for fresh i...
4 min
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Hotel hit 'is not journalism’
Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
Responding to the piece broadcast by Sky News in relation to the Birmingham hotel, conference and education facility built for Unite, the union said today (Wedn...
4 min
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We will remember them
Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
A once imposing war memorial dedicated to members of the print union Natsopa has been restored to its former glory and takes pride of place in a new peace garde...
6 min
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‘Groundhog Day’ at the Woolwich Ferry
Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
Workers operating the Woolwich Ferry, now run by Transport for London (TfL), are holding a ballot for strike action over the victimisation of a Unite rep, the u...
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‘Toxic’ firm’s threat to ‘fire and rehire’ 300 staff
Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
Coffee-drinking supermarket customers will be a key element in the ‘fire and rehire’ dispute affecting nearly 300 employees at the JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) si...
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Tugboat crew strike in roster row
Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
Two days of strike action this week by Plymouth tugboat crews in a rostering dispute will cause serious disruption to naval traffic in the docks, Unite warned t...
3 min
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'Green light to racists'
Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
It’s not genetics, vitamin D, underlying conditions, or lifestyle choices causing disproportionate deaths of black and Asian people from Covid-19. It is poverty...
5 min
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