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Hotel workers say no to ‘fire and re-hire’

Monday, April 26th, 2021

Unite, which represents thousands of workers in the hotel sector, held socially distanced demonstrations today (26 April) outside the flagship hotels of Interco...

4 min

News Analysis

End ‘bully boy’ fire and rehire fight launched

Monday, April 26th, 2021

Unite today (Monday April 26) launched a major national campaign to end the growing practice of fire and rehire.

8 min

Comment

Our Streets

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

With flowers for a vigil and a sombre tone women gathered to pay their respects. Why couldn’t she have been left alone?

2 min

News

Win for Sheffield University Students' Union workers

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

Unite victory for workers on zero hours at Sheffield University Students' Union

3 min

News

“Our members know their worth"

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

Engineers at Melrose-owned Brush Electrical in strike ballot over fire and rehire cuts of up to £15,000

4 min

Elections 2021

‘Never been a better time to care’

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

I’m the Labour Party candidate for West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner, and currently work as legal aid solicitor and member of Unite. I represent peopl...

6 min

News Feature

'Only the start'

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

Doctors in Unite (DiU) determined to fight American healthcare company takeover of UK GP practices after ‘brilliant’ demo

5 min

News

‘No remote sign on. Full stop’

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

London bus operator Metroline has until 10 May to permanently drop its controversial ‘remote sign on’ policy – or it will face a summer of strikes, Unite warned...

4 min

News

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...

3 min

Elections 2021

‘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...

7 min

News

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

5 min

News

Dyson tax text scandal

Wednesday, April 21st, 2021

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

3 min

Sound and Vision

'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'

2 min

News

'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

3 min

News

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 –...

4 min