I’d gone from Camden into Islington.
No idea the area was once called – Copenhagen
then a cattle market – the Caledonian.
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I’d gone from Camden into Islington.
No idea the area was once called – Copenhagen
then a cattle market – the Caledonian.
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Every Friday here on UniteLIVE we bring you more heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus epidemic. Here are this week’s latest. HEROES Protestors in the US and around the world standing up to…Read more…
“SPS must not exploit the lockdown to force through these unnecessary redundancies and brutal attacks on terms and conditions,” commented Unite regional officer Garry Guye said.
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Bentley currently employs 4,200 workers at its factory in Crewe, Cheshire. The proposed 1,000 redundancies, which will be on a voluntary basis, account for almost one quarter of the workforce.
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As Unite had long suspected class and race are the biggest factors in determining those that have died or been taken ill by the Covid-19 pandemic – now an undeniable fact borne out the government’s…Read more…
Unite has proclaimed victory for bus drivers and the travelling public after the government announced on Thursday (June 4) that all people traveling on public transport in England will be required to…Read more…
Despite the government claiming that 90 per cent of all rough sleepers had been found a bed that was never the case at all. Some, with no recourse to public funds have been refused access. This…Read more…
“The announcement by Rolls-Royce is another warning sign that the UK is in serious danger of losing its leading position in aerospace, in addition to losing thousands of skilled jobs,” commented…Read more…
In his message to BA he said, “We are not just going to lie down and leave our members to be trodden all over. Step back and see sense and I promise you we will meet you continually and we will sort…Read more…
More than 200 jobs at Oxfam’s headquarters in Oxford could be under threat after the charity’s fundraising nosedived amid the coronavirus pandemic. Oxfam was due to start the 45-day consultation…Read more…
Aston Martin was urged today (June 4) to reconsider the scale and number of the proposed 500 job losses at its luxury sports car plant in Gaydon, Warwickshire. Aston Martin announced 500 job losses…Read more…
The coronavirus itself may not discriminate along race or class lines, but because we live in a deeply unequal society, the end result is the same – Black and Asian ethnic minority (BAEM) communities…Read more…
Unite, representing staff working in call and contact centres across the financial services sector, has today (June 4) called for urgent action following the publication of a report into Covid-19…Read more…
A new report out from Public Health England (PHE) this week (June 2) has confirmed what previous studies have found – that people from black and minority ethnic (BAEM) communities are much more…Read more…
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey today (June 3) highlighted the appalling behaviour of British Airways, which has moved to sack its entire workforce of 42,000 and rehire some 30,000 of them on…Read more…
Unite stands in solidarity with all those protesting in response to the senseless murder of George Floyd, and the appalling racism both here and across the world. The labour movement must be clear in…Read more…
Unite is calling for a government review of British Airways’ landing slots amid the airline’s betrayal of its workers and the British public. Unite has welcomed today’s (June 3) debate in the House…Read more…
The issue of shorter working time in the post Covid19 era is now firmly on the agenda, thanks to a new report commissioned by the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions (CSEU). The CSEU…Read more…
Unite London and Eastern regional officer Wayne King speaks out about the need for the government to take urgent action to save the UK’s aviation sector, on BBC London, June 2.
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Nissan’s plans to end a defined benefits pension scheme for hundreds of workers at its Sunderland plant are ‘disappointing’ and ‘opportunistic’, Unite said today (Tuesday 2 June).
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