Approval will allow priority for NHS and care staff
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Approval will allow priority for NHS and care staff
The article Oxford vaccine approval is welcome news, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
This week, on the first anniversary of the UK’s first lockdown, UNITElive is featuring some of the top stories we have covered on the pandemic and our members’ contributions, concerns and…Read more…
Residents of Kent well remember when the Garden of England became the Toilet of England in the summer of 2015 after the migrant crisis and French labour disputes shut down the Dover-Calais border. At…Read more…
How do you get the public on board with policies that no one really supports? Easy – divide and rule, a signature and all-too predictable strategy right out of the Tory government’s playbook….Read more…
The right to picket is such a fundamental one that it is even protected in the Human Rights Act – it sits right alongside others such as the right to life and a fair trial. It is the most powerful…Read more…
At the beginning of this year, no one could have foretold how the aviation industry in the UK – a huge contributor to the economy, supporting nearly 1m jobs – would have so suddenly been brought to…Read more…
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a Unite film from August about the aviation industry and what the union is calling on the…Read more…
The Covid-19 pandemic has ravaged sectors across the British economy, with not a single industry spared. Manufacturing took a massive hit, with hundreds of thousands of jobs lost since March and many…Read more…
Unite, which represents thousands of workers employed throughout Heathrow airport, is warning that Heathrow Airport Limited’s (HAL) contingency plans during the ongoing strike action have failed to…Read more…
This week, on the first anniversary of the UK’s first lockdown, UNITElive is featuring some of the top stories we have covered on the pandemic and our members’ contributions, concerns and…Read more…
If the common saying is anything to go by, you’d think lovers and fighters were mutually exclusive categories — but Unite member and health and safety campaigner Hilda Palmer is in fact both….Read more…
Unite has responded to a call by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) for an investigation by parliament into the congestion at Britain’s ports, to warn that…Read more…
Unite, which represents over 100,000 health workers, has backed a call by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and the Health Service Journal (HSJ) that the government’s plans to relax social distancing…Read more…
Unite the union continues to back the original decision made by Greenwich council to move classes online from today (December 15). Unite accused the education secretary Gavin Williamson, who has…Read more…
Unite, the UK’s construction union, has launched a comprehensive construction guide to help ensure the safety of construction workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The guide titled Construction…Read more…
The strike by Unite members at Heathrow Airport continues to gain momentum on their second day of strike action today (December 14) against the imposition of permanent pay cuts which will see their…Read more…
Workers at Heathrow Airport will next week step up strike action in their increasingly bitter dispute over massive wage cuts that the company is imposing on them through a controversial fire and…Read more…
DHL has been told it ‘must improve’ coronavirus safety procedures for drivers working on its Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) contract in Halewood, Liverpool, Unite said today (December 10). Unite, which…Read more…
Unite, which represents over 20,000 London bus drivers, is warning that the capital could face a period of widespread industrial action in early 2021 as workers are set to be balloted on attacks to…Read more…
When chancellor Rishi Sunak listened to trade unions and announced in April, at the height of the pandemic, that he would increase Universal Credit payments by £20 a week, millions of families – many…Read more…