Authorities face massive funding gap
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Staffing, safety and vulnerable children must be priority for schools’ return, says UNISON
Jon Richards says test and trace must improve, teaching assistants mustn’t become substitute teachers and vulnerable pupils should be priority
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‘Not a moment more to be lost’
As Unite launches its campaign to save UK aerospace today (July 2), the union highlights the existential threat the sector faces amid the coronavirus crisis and is calling on the government to step…Read more…
‘PM, do not abandon working people now in their hour of need’
There’s rising panic being felt in homes across the country right now. The last 24 hours have seen a jobs bloodbath with over 10,000 lost.
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Frontline care and health workers face thousands of pounds of government visa charges
It’s perverse that ministers ignore the contribution of care and NHS support staff
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Review: Hitler’s Hangmen: The Secret German Plot to Kill Churchill, December 1944, by Brian Lett
Brian Lett is the author of a number of excellent works of military history and I looked forward to this one, not least due to the intriguing title. Unfortunately, the title may be a bit…Read more…
“East Ham War Pensions Committee: Your Fight Is Our Fight”
Historic photo of dependants of World War One ex-service men protesting against cuts to War pensions in 1919. The authorities claimed that the local East Ham War Pensions committee did not follow the “rules” and gave out too generous benefits.
easyJet job losses ‘massive blow’
Unite, last night (June 30) described the announcement that easyJet is intending to make 1,290 cabin crew redundant and close its hubs at Newcastle, Stansted and Southend airports in their entirety…Read more…
Exploitation of migrant workers and coronavirus link must end
The link between outbreaks of Covid-19 at meat processing plants and the sector’s widespread exploitation of migrant workers on low pay and insecure contracts ‘must be addressed’, Unite said last…Read more…
NHS staff Covid-19 fears for A&E as pubs reopen
NHS ambulance and A&E staff are braced ‘with a great deal of trepidation’ for the fall-out from the mass opening of pubs in England on Saturday, Unite warned today (Wednesday July 1).
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‘The scale of this is devastating’
Aerospace giant Airbus announced last night (June 30) a massive raft of UK job losses, with more than 1,700 jobs expected to go. Speaking on BBC 1 News on Wednesday (July 1), Unite assistant general…Read more…
‘Act of industrial vandalism’
Unite has branded aerospace giant Airbus’ announcement on Tuesday night (June 30) to slash nearly 2,000 jobs in the UK ‘another act of industrial vandalism’. Calling on the government to…Read more…