About 3,000 workers face losing their jobs as Heathrow catering companies use Covid-19 not only as an excuse to axe jobs, but as ‘a smokescreen’ to undermine employment conditions for those that…Read more…
Scrap ‘queen of the skies’ call
Unite believes that while the 747 jet is held in high regard, it is now time for the ‘queen of the skies’ to relinquish her throne. The entire aviation industry’s stock of older, more polluting…Read more…
Take action govt before ‘it’s too late for West Mids’ call
Unite is demanding political support for businesses and workers striving to stem the West Midlands jobs loss tsunami, that has seen at least 8,000 jobs vanish from the region in the past week…Read more…
easyJet job losses ‘massive blow’
Unite, last night (June 30) described the announcement that easyJet is intending to make 1,290 cabin crew redundant and close its hubs at Newcastle, Stansted and Southend airports in their entirety…Read more…
Aviation job losses continue to mount
Job losses in the civil aviation sector continue to mount after Heathrow Airport announced it would axe 500 ambassadors, and Stobart Air said it would close its base in Southend Airport. The Heathrow…Read more…
Unite: ‘Act now’ call
Aviation has been one of the worst affected sectors since the pandemic began, with a 97 per cent reduction in passenger flights. Every prediction is that the sector will eventually recover – but in…Read more…
BA parent IAG pleads poverty while set on Air Europa
As we have previously reported on UNITElive, British Airways is set on its ‘fire and hire’ policy, by sacking 12,000 of its 42,000-strong workforce, and re-employing the remaining 30,000 staff on…Read more…
Don’t let 2020’s aviation industry become the new 1980s’ coal
A new report out today (June 11) on the UK’s aviation industry is saying as many as 124,000 jobs in the industry and its supply chain are at risk and could vanish in just three months as a result of…Read more…
Follow France’s investment lead call
Unite, which represents workers throughout aerospace and aviation, today (June 9) called on the UK government to follow the lead of France – and provide specific support to these sectors, both…Read more…
Quarantine rules for UK arrivals come into effect
The government’s new rules requiring people who travel into Britain from abroad to quarantine for 14 days has come into effect today (June 8). From today, passengers arriving into the UK on planes,…Read more…
‘A devastating effect’
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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‘Grim’ times for Heathrow’s workers?
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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‘For the nation’s benefit’
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…
‘Time is running out’
The urgency for government intervention has been underlined by major employers in the aviation as well as associated aerospace sectors announcing over 30,000 potential job losses in recent…Read more…
‘Shameful opportunism’: Rolls-Royce jobs axe plan slammed
“This company has accepted public money to furlough thousands of workers. Unite and Britain’s taxpayers deserve a more responsible approach to a national emergency. We call upon Rolls-Royce to step…Read more…
‘We’re at five minutes to midnight…’
“Governments in Europe and globally have provided financial support for their aviation sectors because they recognise it is vital to an economy, and the UK government needs to do the same,” she…Read more…
‘Smash and grab opportunism’
British Airways accused of ‘two-faced approach’ as parent company accepts one billion Spanish bailout
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Cities facing crisis
The economic impact of the coronavirus epidemic continues to be felt right across the UK. But new research has found that certain cities will be harder hit than others. An analysis from the Centre…Read more…
Coronavirus latest
As the seriousness of the coronavirus epidemic grows each day, the government on Monday (March 16) announced stricter social distancing measures, including advising the public to limit all…Read more…
‘Incredibly unsettling’
Unite, which represents hundreds of members at regional airline Flybe, is seeking an urgent meeting with the company following press speculation about its future. Quoting unnamed…Read more…