The decision by the University of Sheffield to drop its plans to sack and reengage over 8,000 of its employees in a bid to cut costs has been hailed as ‘a victory for common sense’ by Unite on…Read more…
Meat plant deep clean after new Covid cluster found
After 35 staff tested positive for the virus the pork meat processing plant will now close for a deep clean this weekend. It’s understood testing and tracing will take place among the 500 employees…Read more…
Heroes and zeroes
Every Friday here on UniteLIVE, we bring you all the latest heroes and zeros amid the coronavirus crisis. Here are this week’s latest. Unite PHE members This week, UniteLIVE spoke to some of…Read more…
‘We’ve just been thrown under the bus’
Earlier this week, health secretary Matt Hancock dropped a bombshell announcement laying out his plans to entirely scrap Public Health England (PHE) in the middle of a pandemic, a decision which was…Read more…
‘This fight will go all the way’
British Airways ground staff and cabin crew were among those who have given overwhelmingly called for strike action to fight their employer `all the way’ in the defence of their jobs, wages and…Read more…
ADL betrayal
ADL branded ‘disgraceful and deceptive’ over Guildford production closure and Falkirk and Scarborough redundancies
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Time to be ‘more German’?
In the UK, the Chancellor is refusing to extend the furlough scheme despite the prospect of mass job losses. But in Germany, the ‘Kurzarbeit’ social insurance scheme ensures employers reduce their…Read more…
easyJet passengers and staff treated ‘with complete disregard’
easyJet’s boundless appetite for shareholder profits over the interests of their loyal workforce and passengers knows no bounds. On Monday (August 18), the airliner confirmed plans to close regional…Read more…
British Airways heading for ‘winter of discontent’
British Airways is heading for months of industrial unrest unless it steps back from proposals which will effectively force thousands of workers onto punitive and insecure zero hours-type contracts….Read more…
Bus maker Alexander Dennis urged to ‘come clean’ over job cuts
Alexander Dennis (ADL) must ‘come clean’ over its opportunistic use of Covid-19 to cut 650 jobs and outsource work to Turkey, Unite said today (August 19). Unite has discovered that the…Read more…
‘Jobs for the boys and girls’?
The government has today (August 18) officially announced plans to axe Public Health England (PHE) and replace the body with a new agency, after the plans were leaked to the media at the weekend. PHE…Read more…
Bus maker Alexander Dennis urged to ‘come clean’ over job cuts
Alexander Dennis (ADL), the UK’s largest bus and coach builder, must ‘come clean’ over its opportunistic use of Covid-19 to cut 650 jobs and outsource work to Turkey, Unite said…Read more…
Council workers reject ‘poverty pay’ offer
About 100,000 council workers, members of Unite the union, have overwhelmingly rejected in a consultative ballot a pay and conditions offer for 2020/1 which amounts to just £1.83 a day. But Unite…Read more…
PHE lined up to be ‘the fall guy’
Public Health England (PHE) and its dedicated staff are being lined up as ‘the fall guy’ for ministers’ bungling over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic, Unite said today (August 17). Unite,…Read more…
‘Huge kick in the teeth’
One of Glasgow’s most prestigious restaurants has come under fire from staff who have said they’ve been badly treated during the coronavirus pandemic. Unite is supporting staff members of The Ivy…Read more…
The ‘fight of our lives’
With the tsunami of job losses we predicted when Rishi Sunak announced, the phasing-out of the furlough scheme now coming to pass, the government’s reversion to type with a reliance on a failed “free…Read more…
Landmark toxic cabin air ruling
Unite has welcomed a landmark ruling in America, where a pilot for the airliner JetBlue won a compensation case after becoming chronically ill from exposure to toxic cabin air. The pilot, Captain…Read more…
‘Scandalous’ treatment of airport’s staff
The treatment of Jersey Airport’s Swissport staff facing 70 per cent redundancies by both the company and the island’s government is ‘scandalous’, Unite said today (Friday August 14).
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A sightseer in Beirut
In the morning the vast inspiring
Al Amin Mosque.
Heads covered feet bare.
Under the chandeliers
our whispered voices
echoes of centuries.
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Heroes and zeroes
Every Friday here on UniteLIVE we bring you the latest ‘heroes and zeroes’ amid the coronavirus crisis. Here are this week’s latest. Bakkavor workers This week, Unite highlighted…Read more…