Further cuts will damage services
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Energy firm OVO must halt job cut plans and find another solution
Further cuts will damage services
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A King’s Speech for the people
A plan for steel, binding employment rights and an end to energy rip-offs should form the centrepiece of next week’s King’s Speech, Unite has said. The call comes as ministers finalise their plans – that will be laid out on Tuesday 7 November – for what will be the final legislative programme before the next […]
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Red Wall voters back public energy
A strong majority of voters living in Red Wall seats back public ownership of the UK’s energy system, an exclusive new poll has revealed. The recent survey carried out by pollsters Survation found that overall 64 per cent of voters in Red Wall seats agree that the UK’s domestic energy industry should be brought back […]
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‘Labour – be the voice of workers’
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham gave a barnstorming speech on bringing energy back into public hands on Monday (October 9) at the Labour Party Conference. You can watch the full speech in the video clip below and read a summary of her speech here.
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Energy back into public hands call
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham reiterated her union’s call to take energy back into public hands at the Labour Party Conference on Monday (October 9), in a speech that was dominated by cheers and applause. Moving a motion on critical infrastructure, Unite’s leader began by thanking workers in Britain who “fought the profiteers as well […]
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UNISON condemns ‘disgraceful’ approval for North Sea oil field
‘Somebody must show international leadership in tackling climate change. It looks like it won’t be the UK’
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UNISON condemns ‘disgraceful’ approval for North Sea oil field
‘Somebody must show international leadership in tackling climate change. It looks like it won’t be the UK’
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Rosebank decision makes achieving net-zero much harder, warns UNISON
This is yet another setback in the battle against climate change.
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Centrica shareholders urged to reject CEO’s ‘obscene’ bonus
Unite has called on Centrica shareholders to reject the remuneration package for chief executive officer (CEO) Chris O’Shea at the firm’s annual general meeting on Tuesday (June 13). On top of his annual salary of £790,000, Mr O’Shea is set to receive a cash bonus of £1.42 million and a long-term share bonus of £2.3 […]
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Mayor of Liverpool opens UNISON’s energy conference
Steve Rotherham spoke to delegates about the efforts being made in his region to decarbonise industry and green the economy
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Christina McAnea introduces new energy report at conference
The general secretary said UNISON is ‘warning once again – about the elitist energy economy this government is creating’
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Failure to widen financial help for a greener future will mean climate goals are missed, says UNISON
Government help to drive energy efficiency is inadequate.
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Unite will not accept ‘jam tomorrow’
Commenting on Labour’s energy plan, which includes proposals to halt new oil and gas production in the North Sea, Unite general Secretary Sharon Graham said, “Grabbing the headlines is easy, developing a serious plan for more renewable energy is not. “When Keir Starmer decided to let the world know that he would halt new oil […]
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Public ownership would end ‘energy profiteering scandal’
Taking public control of the UK’s energy network could reduce bills, reduce inflation, and pay for itself in a few years, reveals new research by Unite. Unite Investigates “Renationalising Energy – costs and savings considers how a publicly run energy network could use the massive profits of Britain’s energy giants to reduce household bills and […]
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Pull the plug on energy profiteers call
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has written to the Ofgem CEO, Jonathan Brearley , and Chair, Martin Cave, to demand that the Regulator clamp down on excessive profiteering by energy distributors. ‘Unite investigates’ – the union’s research and investigation arm – has established that last year the major energy suppliers, distributors, and generators made £15.8 […]
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Renationalise energy and no more budgets for the rich
Yesterday, (September 25) Unite’s general secretary Sharon Graham told delegates at Unite’s Scottish policy conference, that ScottishPower’s ‘eyewatering’ £7bn in dividends to its Spanish owners, reveals the need to renationalise energy and proves that a budget benefitting the rich will not work. In the last year a Unite investigation has revealed that 13 per of […]
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Social catastrophe
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