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Transport round-up: Fight for airline jobs AND Suspend Dial-a-Ride
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Transport round-up: Fight for airline jobs AND Suspend Dial-a-Ride

Airline bosses are making mass job cuts and forcing through pay cuts. 
04 May 2020
Health workers face the sack for demanding protective equipment
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Health workers face the sack for demanding protective equipment

Worker rightly said, 'as long as we are provided with PPE we will work, without PPE we won't'
22 April 2020
Action is needed to win council workers’ pay rise +Merthyr victory + Dundee carers
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Action is needed to win council workers’ pay rise +Merthyr victory + Dundee carers

Local government employers in England and Wales last week offered just a 2.75 percent pay rise for over a million workers for 2020-21.
21 April 2020
Union leaders split over who should head Labour as candidates shift right
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Union leaders split over who should head Labour as candidates shift right

Trade union leaders are split over who to back to be the Labour Party’s next leader and deputy leader.
28 January 2020
Health round up: ‘We’ll fight to stay in the NHS,’ say Frimley strikers
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Health round up: ‘We’ll fight to stay in the NHS,’ say Frimley strikers

Hundreds of health workers in Berkshire and Surrey plan a fresh round of strikes against privatisation.
10 December 2019
Union holds Black Friday protests against Amazon
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Union holds Black Friday protests against Amazon

The GMB union held Black Friday and Cyber Monday protests at several Amazon sites in anger at the “appalling” treatment of workers.
03 December 2019
Hundreds of health workers strike against privatisation
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Hundreds of health workers strike against privatisation

Hundreds of health workers in Berkshire and Surrey began a two-day strike against privatisation on Monday.
19 November 2019
Reports round up: Campaigners join Silent Walk for Grenfell
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Reports round up: Campaigners join Silent Walk for Grenfell

Cleaners at HMRC tax offices in Liverpool and Bootle were set to strike on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.
19 November 2019
Sacked for Xmas at Asda?
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Sacked for Xmas at Asda?

Asda supermarket workers facing the imposition of harsh new contracts handed in a petition with 23,000 signatures to bosses in Leeds last week.
22 October 2019
Steel workers march in Newport AND unions round up
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Steel workers march in Newport AND unions round up

eCourier workers who are members of the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), struck for two days from last Thursday.
15 October 2019
Letters—A hard working life, and now my pension has been stolen
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Letters—A hard working life, and now my pension has been stolen

This month I will be 62, but there will be no real happy birthday feeling until I am 66.
15 October 2019
Diageo workers call off strike after bosses' new offer
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Diageo workers call off strike after bosses’ new offer

Around 1,500 workers at Diageo plants across Scotland were set to begin ten days of strikes over pay on Tuesday night but called them off after a new offer
17 September 2019