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Knowsley Livv Housing workers have intensified their strikes in their fight for fair pay. After workers endured years of below inflation pay rises, they’ve now rejected a pay increase of five per cent because it fails to reverse the real terms pay cuts they’ve suffered. Livv Housing, which manages and maintains over 13,000 properties primarily […]
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Unite delegate Tracey Whittle gave an impassioned speech in support of a composite on housing on Tuesday (September 10) at TUC Congress. Tracey asserted that “Britain is broken and our infrastructure is in a state of decay and disrepair”. “Nowhere is the failure of the previous Tory government more evident than their failure to provide […]
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The Unite London Building Workers branch were back on the streets to talk to workers and hand out copies of the latest BuildingWorker last week. This time, branch officers and activists were in the City of London highlighting issues around Erith Group and its refusal to allow union reps on their site. Declan Murphy was […]
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The Unite London Building Workers branch was out in full force this week as they handed out hundreds of copies of the latest issue of the BuildingWorker magazine at a construction site in West London. The active branch regularly distributes the magazine as a recruitment and organising tool outside various sites throughout the capital, especially […]
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The latest spring edition of BuildingWorker is now out, and members across Unite’s construction sector are eager to spread the word – as Unite reps Steve Geekie, Graeme Jenkins, and Colin Young have done at a construction site in Dundee in the photo below. If you’re eager to get your hands on the latest issue […]
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