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Unite

May 2024

  • pipes, valves and shafts at the grangemouth oil refinery

    Calls grow for urgent talks to protect future of Grangemouth oil refinery

  • Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham.

    Unite warns it will hold back funds if Labour weakens plan on workers’ rights

April 2024

  • Aerial view of Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelwork

    Tata Steel rejects union plan to save jobs and keep Port Talbot furnace open

    Rejection of plan to keep one blast furnace open while building electric replacement ends hopes of avoiding as many as 2,800 job losses
  • Passengers look at the departures board at Heathrow airport in London

    Heathrow expects summer holiday season to be ‘busiest on record’

    Passengers numbers this year predicted to hit 82.4m but airport’s future uncertain, with proposed £6bn sale in doubt
  • Mick Waldram works on a train at Alstom’s plant in Derby.

    ‘We’re by no means out of the woods yet’: workers face uncertainty over Alstom train plant

    Talk of Elizabeth line order raised hopes over safeguarding future of Derby factory but staff are taking nothing for granted

February 2024

  • signage for the Financial Conduct Authority

    FCA’s pay levels ‘could force its staff to rely on hardship fund’

    Members of Unite union reject UK regulator’s offer and say it is failing to deal with salary shortfall
  • Sharon Graham

    If the government really cared about keeping Britain safe, it would care about Port Talbot and steel

    Sharon Graham
    In a precarious world, we can safeguard supplies – and meet net zero too, says Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite

    • MoD firefighters’ pensions delayed after Capita Group blunders

    • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
      Labour formally drops £28bn green pledge and blames Tories for ‘crashing the economy’ – as it happened

    • GMB members support ballot on strike action over alleged bullying within union

January 2024

  • The Tata Steelworks in Port Talbot, Wales

    Tata Steel ‘open to more UK investment’ despite Port Talbot job cuts

  • Workers from Port Talbot protest outside parliament on 23 January.

    ‘Hypocrisy’: Tata builds vast India furnace despite Port Talbot emissions claims

  • furnaces and terrace houses in Port Talbot

    ‘A golden opportunity’: Port Talbot fights to keep its steelmaking tradition alive

  • Keir Starmer.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer says Labour will ‘meet fire with fire’ if Tories resort to dirty tactics during election – as it happened

December 2023

  • The Unite leader, Sharon Graham

    Four in five UK women say workplace support for menopause lacking – survey

    Exclusive: Unite union finds some employers did not even allow simple adjustments such as fans for hot flushes
  • Sharon Graham

    Unions must resist the Tories’ new anti-strike laws – even if that means breaking the law ourselves

    Sharon Graham
    As the TUC meets to plan its response, my message is clear – don’t back down, says Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite
  • An Oxfam charity shop

    Oxfam shop and office workers strike for first time

    Unite union says average wages have been cut by 21% in real terms since 2018

November 2023

  • Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales

    Large parts of Port Talbot steelworks could be shut under Tata Steel cuts plan

  • The central bus station, Sunderland – view of quite empty concourse with several people standing around and one bus in background

    Bus drivers’ strike is ‘damaging lives’ in north-east England, says council leader

October 2023

  • Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor, delivers a speech to party delegates on day two of the Labour party conference.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney endorses Rachel Reeves – as it happened

    Carney says ‘it is beyond time we put her energy and ideas into action’ in video shown to Labour conference after shadow chancellor’s speech
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