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Unite has slammed Liberty Steel’s latest announcement that up to 440 jobs could be at risk of redundancy under new proposals to restructure the business. Liberty Steel announced on Thursday (January 12) plans to mothball three factories and cut production at another. The three mothballed sites will include West Bromwich, Newport and Tredegar, while production […]
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Unite has expressed its shock at the decision by P&O Ferries to dismiss its entire UK seafaring workforce of 800 crew members to replace them with cheaper labour. The ferry operator’s…Read more…
Workers at GKN Driveline in Birmingham have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in the battle to prevent the closure of the factory on Chester Road. The closure would mean the transfer of…Read more…
More than 60 Radius Aerospace job losses in Shrewsbury, the first of which could occur on the day furlough ends, are a ‘hammer blow’ for staff, Unite said today (August 19). Radius Aerospace, which…Read more…
Brexit trade barriers or naked corporate greed are to blame for job losses in Co. Antrim amid a sinking job market and during a global pandemic fears Unite.
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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…
It has been a year like no other. From the moment the coronavirus hit our shores, this union was on the front foot. Unite was always going to have to go into hand-to-hand battle against this…Read more…
The news that energy giant E.ON is to axe about 700 jobs over the next two years is ‘more grim news’ for the UK economy already battered by Covid-19, Unite said on Thursday (November 19). Unite has…Read more…
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s extension of the furlough scheme has come too late for a massive number of people who are now out of work, as the latest figures show more than 300,000 redundancies were made…Read more…
Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) needs to dip into its cash mountain to protect airport jobs during the pandemic, after its boss boasted that it had reserves for the next 15 months ‘even if we had no…Read more…
Workers at the historic Rolls-Royce factory at Barnoldswick in Lancashire will embark on three weeks of targeted strike action beginning next month, as part of the Unite-led campaign to preserve the…Read more…
The number of UK redundancies have skyrocketed at a record rate, with almost a quarter of a million redundancies made in the three months to August, the latest unemployment figures show. The latest…Read more…
Last month Heathrow Airports Ltd (HAL) issued a section 188 notice beginning a process which could result in over 4,000 workers directly employed by the airport being fired and then rehired on vastly…Read more…
Horrific pay cuts of up to £8,000 a year being imposed on thousands of Heathrow airport workers are the cost of eye-watering levels of debt and excessive payments to directors and shareholders, Unite…Read more…
Responding to the announcement today (October 7) that Manchester Airport is intending to make dramatic job cuts Unite, the principal aviation union, has said it is a direct consequence of the…Read more…
The news that 140 jobs at Magellan Aerospace’s operation in Bournemouth will be lost when the site closes next February is ‘a devastating blow’ to the Dorset economy, Unite said today (Tuesday 6…Read more…
In another bad day (October 6) for the finance sector job losses are announced in finance firm LV and JN bank. The moves have been roundly condemned by Unite.
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Employers in the UK planned an astonishing 300,000 job cuts in June and July, a Freedom of Information (FoI) request from the BBC has found. More than 1,700 firms planned to make 150,000 job losses…Read more…
Unite, the UK’s principal aviation union, has reacted with deep concern following reports that Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) is to begin the formal process of firing and rehiring workers on vastly…Read more…
New jobless figures published on Tuesday (August 11) show the scale of the employment crisis facing the UK amid the coronavirus pandemic, with nearly three quarters of a million jobs falling off…Read more…