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Unite has confirmed that its members employed by Network Rail in electric control rooms will join their colleagues at other rail unions in taking industrial action as part of the latest planned walkouts. The workers will take industrial action on the following dates: Tuesday 12 December, Wednesday 13 December, Friday 16 December, Saturday 17 December, […]
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Hundreds of workers from the port of Felixstowe will hold a protest in defence of seven Unite members and Unite reps who have been victimised by “malicious” bosses. A consultative ballot for industrial action also gets underway on Monday, December 5. The protest will begin from 8am on December 5 at Gate 1, Port of […]
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Passengers flying from Heathrow for pre-Christmas getaways have been warned to be braced for delays as ground handlers employed by Menzies have announced fresh strike action in a pay dispute. The dispute involves 350 workers employed by Menzies who will take strike action from 4am on Friday, December 16 for a 72 hour period. The […]
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The agency brought in to break a pay strike by Harrods’ security guards and CCTV operators has been named and shamed as Protective Security Group Ltd. Under the new anti-trade union law passed this summer by the government, Harrods has been allowed to replace striking workers with agency staff. The company threatened the workforce with […]
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Lovers of some of UK’s most popular pickles face being denied their favourite condiments this Christmas as strike action at the Mizkan Euro factory in Rochdale intensifies in a dispute over pay. The factory produces Haywards Pickled Onions, Sarsons Vinegar and Haywards Pickled Vegetables. The 50 plus workers, who are members of Unite, the UK […]
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More ambulance service workers in England have voted for industrial action Unite announced on Wednesday (November 30). With workers voting by up to 92 per cent to take action, strikes look set to begin ahead of Christmas. Unite will announce details in the coming days. Unite’s ambulance service members say such is the decay across […]
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Nearly 200 low paid East Kent Hospitals staff, employed by private contractor 2Gether, are being balloted for strike action over pay, Unite said today (December 1). 2Gether is a wholly owned subsidiary of East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and made £2m profits in 2021. The workers are being offered a pay rise of around […]
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December 1 will be a day that hundreds of thousands of hospitality workers in the Republic of Ireland will remember – it’s the day that they’ve reclaimed what’s rightfully theirs. Up until today, workers in Ireland’s hotels, restaurants and other establishments where tipping is customary, had long been the victims of theft on a grand […]
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Reacting to the Ofgem’s newly published price review on Wednesday (November 30) Unite has slammed the regulator’s failure to rein in rampant profiteering by energy distributors such as UK Power Networks. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said, “Ofgem have utterly failed to protect the public from rapacious energy profiteers. This price review will allow distributors […]
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London’s Plant Based World Expo were warned that Quorn is not the ethical business it claims to be by protestors today (November 30). The protest was in support of Quorn’s Billingham factory workers who have been on strike over pay since September. The expo is being sponsored by Quorn and a representative from the company […]
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Members of Unite employed in engineering construction roles at Fawley oil refinery in Hampshire will step up strike action in a dispute over bonus payments. The 130-strong workforce, who are employed by three contractors Altrad, Bilfinger and Enerveo, are seeking a bonus payment of £2.37 an hour, the maximum allowed under the relevant industrial agreement […]
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A long-running pay dispute at the GE Steam plant in Rugby has ended after a pay deal was secured by Unite. More than 75 workers had been taking intermittent strike action since April this year over flexible working payments and other financial issues. The dispute was settled after the company agreed to provide a number […]
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Last week in Birmingham, Unite’s various sectors held their respective national industrial sector conferences, which occur every two years. In the video below, you can catch all the highlights from the fourth and final day of the conferences. Film by Nathan Darby
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Last week in Birmingham, Unite’s various sectors held their respective national industrial sector conferences, which occur every two years. In the video below, you can catch all the highlights from the third day of the conferences. Film by Nathan Darby
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Last week in Birmingham, Unite’s various sectors held their respective national industrial sector conferences, which occur every two years. In the video below, you can catch all the highlights from the second day of the conferences. Film by Nathan Darby
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Last week in Birmingham, Unite’s various sectors held their respective national industrial sector conferences, which occur every two years. In the video below, you can catch all the highlights from the first day of the conferences. Film by Nathan Darby
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Ahead of a Unite strike ballot of ambulance workers closing on Wednesday (November 30), the Mirror spoke to several Unite paramedics who’re at the end of their tether. A perfect storm of huge and rising patient handover wait times, high levels of staff sickness mostly due to stress — with many leaving the service altogether […]
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Thousands more NHS workers across London, Merseyside and Manchester have begun balloting for strike action, Unite, which represents some 100,000 NHS workers, said on Friday (November 25). Unite said its healthcare members are warning the NHS is on ‘life support’ and that without serious investment to stem the recruitment and retention crisis and save failing […]
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Long running strike action on the West Midlands Metro has ended after workers agreed an improved pay offer. The 170 members of Unite began strike action in mid-October. The new pay deal was offered after Unite announced that the workers would take all-out industrial action from the end of November. Under the pay deal, which […]
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Discussions between NHS leaders in Scotland on abandoning the health service’s founding principles by having wealthy patients pay for treatment are ‘sickening’, Unite said on Monday (November 21). The discussions, revealed by the BBC, were recorded in draft minutes of a meeting held by NHS Scotland health board chief executives in September. Unite general secretary […]
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