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Unite members working for Dnata and Menzies will walk out later this month, with the industrial action at Heathrow impacting Qatar Airlines ahead of the FIFA World Cup The strikes are timed to coincide with the start of the FIFA World Cup ( Image: Simon Holmes/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock) Hundreds of airport workers …

A below-inflation 10.5 percent pay offer from Go-Ahead bus company, recommended by Unite officials, was accepted by London bus drivers in a ballot last Thursday, with 1,275 drivers voting yes, and 282 drivers voting no. At Go-Ahead London General, covering Merton, Putney, Stockwell, Sutton, Waterloo and Waterside Way garages, 703 …

Unite has followed every other major trade union in responding to the death of Queen Elizabeth II by calling off strike action scheduled over the period of “national mourning” that runs until her state funeral on September 19. On Monday Unite announced it was “postponing” strikes at London United by …

HEALTH workers will today hold a series of lunchtime protests aimed at highlighting deteriorating terms and conditions for staff. The Unison-organised protests at sites in Belfast and the Southern trust area will see the union’s members joined by colleagues from Nipsa, Unite, the British Medical Association and the Royal College …

Pay talks “updates” from Unite have exposed the union’s role in protecting company and shareholder profits, preventing a combined struggle by bus and transport workers across London for an inflation-busting pay-raise. Despite RPI inflation hitting 11.8 percent, Unite officials and reps at Stagecoach and London United have presented insulting company …

P arcel firms “must get better” at handling customer complaints after around a quarter of people have had problems when raising issues with deliveries, regulator Ofcom has warned. The watchdog confirmed a raft of measures first set out last December and said fines or tighter regulation could be on the …

R oyal Mail staff are set to go on strike later this month in a dispute over “further attacks on jobs and pay.” Unite, the managers’ trade union, says the industrial action will go ahead over Royal Mail’s plan to cut 700 jobs and cut pay by up to £7,000, …

R oyal Mail delivery offices across the country are deciding each day which streets do not receive letters after a “failure” in restructuring, MPs have heard. Concerns highlighted by Labour MP Barry Gardiner (Brent North) are to be raised with Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng. Mr Gardiner told the Commons: “Royal …

M anagers at the Royal Mail – currently being balloted for industrial action over threatened job losses – are working huge amounts of unpaid overtime, their union is claiming. Unite said a survey of 1,000 of its Royal Mail manager members showed they are giving the company almost 8,000 “free” …

ROYAL MAIL could be facing national industrial action over “ruinous” plans to axe more than 500 managerial jobs, Unite said today. The union warned of “letter and parcel delivery chaos” as it announced that about 2,400 staff in more than 1,000 workplaces will be balloted for strikes and action short of …