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‘We’re being set up to fail’

Last week, the government announced the biggest shake-up of immigration policy in decades. In part two of our series investigating this new post-Brexit points-based immigration... Read More

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‘Totally bonkers’

Last Wednesday (February 19) UniteLive highlighted the government's new 'points-based' immigration system. Now, we investigate further with a series of features about what these new plans... Read More

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Points-based immigration system slammed

Large labour shortages are predicted after the government unveiled its latest post-Brexit immigration plans which will bar both EU and non-EU migrant workers from securing... Read More

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‘Unite and fight for it’

As Labour Party delegates held a debate on the final day of conference on Wednesday (September 25) about immigration, Unite delegate Neelam Verma explains why she... Read More

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Another Windrush?

Unite members from the EU have been urged to contact the union’s immigration helpline if they have concerns about living and working in the UK... Read More

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‘Fear, hope and loss’

Britain’s divisions along cultural, education and economic lines were laid bare in a new wide-ranging study by anti-extremism campaigning group Hope Not Hate. The... Read More

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‘Stand together now’

On Tuesday (September 11) TUC conference delegates debated strategies for ending the Tory government’s ‘hostile environment’ immigration policy especially in light of the recent Windrush... Read More

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EU nurse ‘exodus’

The Tories' use of EU nationals as “bargaining chips” in the Brexit negotiations caused 10 per cent of European NHS nurses to resign last year,... Read More

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‘Duty of care is to patients’

Home Office immigration officers have asked an East London GP surgery to reveal a patient’s address in what Unite has described as an “appalling” attempt... Read More

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Windrush: Unite calls for ‘dignity and respect’

Paulette Wilson, 61, has lived in the UK for just over half a century. Part of the Windrush generation – Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean... Read More

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‘Catastrophic consequences’

The Conservative’s plan to reduce immigration to the tens of thousands would cause “catastrophic economic consequences”, a study by an employer-backed think tank shows. ... Read More

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Yet more uncertainty

Prime minister Theresa May gave her clearest picture yet of what the government will be seeking as it leaves the European Union yesterday (January 17)... Read More

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More in common

The Immigration Act 2016 went through Parliament with little fanfare in May — but its consequences are dire for not only recent migrants but also... Read More

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Hate crime on the rise

Efforts to tackle the spike in racist hate crime following the vote to leave the EU must be redoubled, a new TUC report has concluded.... Read More

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Refugee solidarity

Unite is backing delegations by Stand Up To Racism the first of which will travel to Calais on Saturday (5 September). The group is... Read More

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Dots on the map?

Despite David Cameron announcing the UK will provide settlement for "thousands more" Syrian refugees there's no doubt we have come to the Harry Lime moment... Read More

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Immigration Street airs tonight

The much-hyped and controversial Immigration Street – a Channel 4 docudrama, purporting to tell the true story of a diverse community in Southampton – is... Read More

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Uniting migrant workers

It’s never been harder to be a migrant in this country. From anti-migrant legislation—such as changes in 2010 to the domestic worker visa, which... Read More

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Obscene narrative

The Tories and their Ukip protégés run on an empty platform of hatred against our country’s most oppressed—from migrants to the working poor to ethnic... Read More