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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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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Hounslow council is warning that a third of the 100,000 households in the borough could be affected by job losses – shrinking the local economy and contracting it by a massive 40 per cent.
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As the UK-wide lockdown continues to ease amid the coronavirus pandemic, more and more people will be asked to return to work. But Unite has vowed from the beginning that no worker should return…Read more…
Workers Uniting, the transnational union representing over 3 million workers across the UK, Ireland, United States, Canada and Mexico is outraged and appalled at the killing of a Black man, George…Read more…
Reducing the two metre social distancing requirement to one metre could double the risk of coronavirus infection, new research out on Tuesday (June 2) has found. The research, part-funded by the…Read more…
Dr Singer, a GP, had been chair of Doctors in Unite (DiU), formerly known as the Medical Practitioners’ Union (MPU). The union formed of mostly GPs celebrated its centenary in 2014.
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There’s no doubt that local authority workers are finding life tough right now – with little or no recognition for putting their safety at risk in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Responding to the chancellor’s changes to the Job Retention Scheme (JRS) announced today, the leader of the country’s most influential union, Unite, said that he was pleased that unions…Read more…
Do you remember when
the phone plugged into the wall
had its own table in the hall?
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But such a vital piece of trade union history could be erased to posterity after it has emerged that Sarah Chapman’s grave is now under threat. The Manor Park Cemetery in Newham, London, home to…Read more…
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More than two months on from the promised but yet to emerge government support for the UK’s beleaguered aviation industry, Unite is warning that without urgent action regional economies will take a…Read more…
A new nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast, with the creation of up to 25,000 jobs during construction, will be a flagship infrastructure project for the post-pandemic economy. Unite, which has…Read more…
“Heroes aren’t allowed to be scared or frightened – but we’ve got lots of people working in the mental health wards who are frightened. But because of this hero narrative, they feel they can’t admit…Read more…
Car giant Nissan announced on Thursday (May 28) that it will keep its Sunderland plant open, but said it intends to shut its factory in Barcelona. Workers in Sunderland may have breathed a sigh of…Read more…
Don’t take that sharp right, Chancellor. Work with those in business and the workplaces, the experts in defending and creating jobs, and you will take the right path for the people and the…Read more…