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Pensioners across the UK – more than 2m of whom are already living in poverty – face the chancellor’s Autumn Statement tomorrow (November 17) with dread, as the triple lock pension protection hangs in the balance. The triple lock guarantee ensures that the state pension increases each year in line with whichever is highest – […]
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Airport operations workers employed by United Airlines at London Heathrow have secured a new pay deal which includes an improved pay offer and a commitment from the company to abandon outsourcing plans. The workers had announced 4 days of strike action planned between 28th and 31st October after a 96% vote in favour of strikes. […]
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The UK’s leading union for hospitality workers, Unite, has Starbucks, Costa, Café Nero and Pret a Manger in its sights as it demands better jobs, pay and conditions for café workers. Despite the sector pulling in £5.6 billion in revenue this year, low pay, under staffing and inconsistent hours are rife across the sector. Unite’s […]
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Unite has secured around 150 workers at Telford’s Heinz Food Service factory a pay rise of 11 per cent. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said, “By standing together in their union, our members at Heinz’s Telford factory have secured a substantial pay rise. As this result shows, Unite’s total focus on improving jobs, pay and […]
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Strikes by more than 250 Stagecoach workers in Hull have ended after the workers accepted a two-year pay deal worth 20 per cent. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said, “This is a major victory for Hull’s Stagecoach workers, who, by standing together, achieved a substantial pay increase. It’s also a significant moment for the region […]
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Strike action by engineers at Fox’s Biscuit factory in Batley Yorkshire has been averted after the workforce accepted an improved pay offer. The 36 engineers who are members of Unite had voted in favour of strikes in a pay dispute and announced industrial action, which would have disrupted Christmas production. Following the announcement of industrial […]
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Unite members are fighting to save the NHS as they call for more funding for a health service on its knees and better pay for staff who are struggling to make ends meet. On Monday (November 14) Unite members in health will gather for a demonstration to send a loud and clear message to prime […]
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Liverpool dockers employed by Peel Ports have won pay hikes between 14 per cent and 18 per cent plus, according to job grades, after a deal was secured by Unite, the dockers’ union. At a mass meeting held on Thursday (November 10) at the docks, around 600 workers voted overwhelmingly in favour of the deal, […]
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Dozens of Unite members working for Liverpool John Lennon Airport joined a Make Hale Road Safe Campaign demonstration on Tuesday (November 8). The campaign is demanding that both the airport and local leaders take action to ensure greater safety of the currently treacherous Hale Road, after Unite member and Ryanair cabin crew worker Cinzia Ceravolo […]
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Unite members employed by Dnata and Menzies at Heathrow will take three days of strike action beginning on Friday November 18, in a dispute over pay. The strike action will begin in the early hours of Friday and it will be completed in the early hours of Monday November 21. It will lead to disruption, cancellations and delays at […]
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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham will be joining striking Muller workers at the firm’s Stonehouse site from 10.30 am this Saturday, November 12. Nearly 70 HGV drivers and shunters employed by the German dairy giant and who are responsible for delivering milk products to supermarkets nationwide have been on strike since August. The dispute is over imposed […]
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It looks like shoppers in the north of England face empty Morrisons supermarket shelves over the holiday season – as the offer of a real terms pay cut has prompted hundreds of drivers employed by Wincanton PLC on the Morrisons contract, to begin voting on strike action. The supermarket chain across the north now faces […]
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Unite confirmed on November 4 that further strike action will take place at Coop Funeralcare in Govan, from Monday November 14 concluding at 07.54 on Monday November 21 – after talks at Acas to resolve the current Co-op coffin factory dispute failed. The meeting broke up without agreement and with no further talks planned continued […]
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Unite has secured a pay rise worth 11.5 per cent for around 700 Princes Group food workers. The workers at four sites, located in Glasgow, Bradford, Cardiff and Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, will receive a 7 per cent pay rise backdated to April 2022 plus a £750 one off payment. The deal was negotiated without the […]
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It’s an increasingly familiar story – workers described as “essential” at the height of the pandemic, then quickly forgotten as the cost of living crisis takes hold, are now taking a stand by going on strike. But the latest workforce to follow this trajectory had a particularly sombre – but crucial – duty as Britain’s […]
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Individual striking Stagecoach workers in Hull are to be targeted by their employer in an attempt to pressure them into accepting an already rejected pay offer, Unite said today (October 26). The 250 drivers, engineers and cleaners have been on all out strike since 7 October. They are striking over a below inflation pay offer, […]
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The long running Arriva Kent bus dispute has ended after bus drivers accepted an improved pay offer. The 480 plus drivers who are members of Unite recorded a 59 per cent vote in favour of accepting the company’s latest offer of a 13.92 per cent pay increase, which is fully backdated to 23 April 2022. […]
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Bosses at the Royal College of Occupational Therapists must scrap their callous redundancies, negotiate with Unite or face the consequences, including possible industrial action. On Monday, October 17 the College which is registered as a union, informed its staff that it was placing 1 in 10 workers at risk of redundancy. Astoundingly, the College gave […]
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Strike ballots for nearly 3,000 ambulance workers in England open today (October 26) and closes November 30. The workers, including paramedics and emergency call handlers, are angry over the four per cent NHS Agenda for Change pay award. The award falls well short of the real rate of inflation, RPI, which stands at 12.6 per […]
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Workers at Southampton Airport who haven’t had a pay increase since 2019 will take a series of one day strikes beginning on 5 November after months of unacceptable delays by airport bosses. Airside operations controllers, firefighters, technicians and engineering workers will take 1 day of strike action on Saturday 5 November, Saturday 12 November and […]
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