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The noise of whistles and supportive car horns sounded outside the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Headquarters in Poole yesterday (25 Aug) as striking boat builders and fitters from the Isle of Wight’s RNLI Inshore Lifeboat Centre traveled to Dorset to take their message to the charities bosses who have abandoned them. The Unite members, […]
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Estates workers at the South London & Maudsley (SLAM) NHS Foundation Trust sites started strike action today (29 July) over equal pay. The hospital’s joiners, electricians, plumbers and painters and decorators are angry at the creation of a two-tier workforce where the workers are on different pay grades – ranging from band three to band […]
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Norfolk’s Burston Strike School Rally is back in September, with a packed line up of speakers and music commemorating the longest strike in history. The Rally, this year held on 6 September, remembers the role of trade unions in building a “Strike School” for the children of rural workers in Norfolk following the persecution of […]
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Construction workers, activists and campaigners gathered at the Building Worker statue on Tower Hill yesterday (28 April) for Unites annual International Workers Memorial Day (IWMD) commemoration. Though workplace safety was the focus of the event, the importance of supporting mental health at work was raised again and again. Unite Regional Officer Mark Soave started the […]
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Norfolk’s Burston Strike School Rally returns in 2025, and it will be a chance for the crowds to check out the newly refurbished school building. The Strike School was beginning to show its age, and earlier in the year the call out was made to Unite branches, regions and sister unions across the country to […]
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Hospitality workers across the east of England are being invited to wake up and smell the coffee as the region launched a new Unite Hospitality branch. The Unite Hospitality East Anglia Branch was launched last month and drew in lots of new members whilst also holding branch elections. The new branch team are raring to […]
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