• Warburton's - possibly sacking staff for protecting their Health and Safety?
    Everyone has the right to a safe environment at their place of work. Drivers who are lone, mobile workers, whose environment changes regularly and sometimes rapidly, should have the confidence to adapt and have the support of their employer in making those decisions
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  • Reinstate the Arrow XL drivers and Pay the Rate
    With the cost-of-living-crisis, Arrow XL drivers and their families are struggling to pay their rent, mortgages and general household bills on the poor wages they receive and instead of Arrow XL management negotiating, they have decided to attack its’ loyal workforce by sacking two of our members who were on strike. It's time for Arrow XL to enter into meaningful negotiations with their drivers and their union, Unite about their pay claim and they must re-instate the sacked workers with immediate effect.
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    Created by Claire Peden
  • Stop union-busting in Apple stores!
    All workers have a right to join a union, Apple employees are no different. We deserve fair and free access to unions where we can negotiate for better pay in uncertain economic circumstances and healthier shift work, within a company that can clearly afford to do better than “good enough”. When workers have a voice on the job, everyone benefits - workers, employers, and society as a whole. Join us in standing up for workers' rights and ending union-busting activities at Apple.
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  • Support for Orchard Day Nursery Staff
    The Early Years Sector is one of the most important sectors in the economy providing professional and specialist care for under 5s. Our early childhoods, the time from pregnancy to five, fundamentally shape our whole lives. However, due to decades of underfunding and privatisation the highly trained staff working in this sector are all too often under paid. Early Years (under 5’s) Private and Voluntary Sector are often working in hostile working environments, with low staffing levels, high stress levels, low pay and poor terms and conditions. According to the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA), nurseries across the UK are being forced to close at an alarming rate due to recruitment and retention problems. A survey carried out by the Early Years Alliance found there are growing staff shortages in the early years sector. The Alliance found out 84 per cent of settings are finding it ‘difficult’ to recruit the right staff, 60 per cent are finding it ‘very difficult’ and 24 per cent are finding it ‘quite difficult’. More than a third of people who answered the survey said they are actively considering leaving the sector. Research suggests that high quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) can have positive and long-lasting impacts on children’s outcomes, particularly for disadvantaged children. By signing this petition, you will assist in addressing some of the problems outlined above for the benefit of future generations, by ensuring those working in the sector receive the proper reward and recognition for the vitally important work they do.
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  • Protect the right to strike!
    This government has gone from clapping key workers to threatening them with the sack if they take lawful action for a pay rise. Instead of listening to the concerns of working people and negotiating fair deals, Rishi Sunak has decided to undermine the right to strike. As the cost-of-living crisis continues to hurt workers everywhere, we need to be able to stand together and choose to strike when we must. These laws will do nothing to fix this crisis - they will make it even harder for working people to get pay rises. Every working person is under attack from these new laws. Add your name and join the campaign. We must defend the right to strike.
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  • Save BBC Radio Foyle: oppose cuts to jobs and programmes
    Journalists at Radio Foyle want to continue working in their roles for the organisation they know and love. For over forty years, it has served communities with its popular Breakfast Show and bulletins that allow listeners to remain informed on wide-ranging topics from sports and politics to PSNI matters and beyond. We need to send a clear message to BBC management that Radio Foyle is worth keeping. So will you join the NUJ in fighting to save public service broadcasting in Northern Ireland? Here's what you can do: - Sign this petition and share with colleagues/friends to help put pressure on the BBC - Use the NUJ's template letter to write to your MP/MLA and the BBC to stop threats to Radio Foyle and the jobs of journalists who make it a success This is an opportunity to stand with the staff of Radio Foyle and the people of the region in defence of their station.
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  • REINSTATE the MURPHY 4
    Four Unite members, including 1 shop steward, have been sacked by Murphy Intl for what Unite believes is legitimate trade union activities. Between them, they have a combined tenure of50 years. We are facing the worst economic crisis in living human history, with the financial clout that Murphy Intl has to force 4 families to face such uncertainty is wholly unacceptable. Please show your support and demand that Murphy Intl immediately REINSTATE THE MURPHY 4.
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  • Don't Leave Our 'Heartland Communities' Behind
    Our economy isn’t working for anyone but the wealthiest people and biggest corporations. Workers who have kept our nation running throughout the pandemic are now in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis. Working people didn’t create this mess but we are being asked to pay for it. The truth is, excessive profits are driving inflation, not wages, and working people’s incomes have failed to keep up with soaring inflation. New national Survation data commissioned by Unite the Union, reports that people have been making dramatic changes to the way they shop, with 69% cutting back on purchases and 70% of people saying their income has not increased at all even though inflation is at a record high of 14.2%. This is in real terms a pay cut. Sign the petition now and help build a movement for real change. Join 'Unite for a Workers' Economy' - https://www.unitetheunion.org/campaigns/unite-for-a-workers-economy-campaign/
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  • Tell Rishi Sunak: Your Government's civil servants deserve better than 2%
    Civil servants played a vital role in keeping the country running during the pandemic. Our members provide essential public services, but for over a decade we’ve been subject to pay freezes and below inflation pay rises. Yet the government expects us to accept a 2% pay rise! Now with inflation running into double figures, and increasing food and energy costs, we have said Enough is Enough. We are ready to take strike action until the government, our employer, gives us the pay rise we deserve! But we need the community to get behind us. Our members are having to make difficult choices on a daily basis about whether to heat their homes or feed their families. Many have told us heart-breaking stories of going without food to feed their children, about living and sleeping in just one room because of the cost of heating. Many have had to call in sick because they could not afford the bus or train fare to work. PCS members are in the fight of their lives, and we need your support to win it. Add your name to our petition today.
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  • We support Amazon workers
    These workers deserve a decent pay rise and the hugely profitable Amazon can afford to give it to them. They worked all through the pandemic, risking their lives keeping households stocked with essentials and dispensing goods that got us through the Covid restrictions. Amazon workers are expected to meet punishing targets day in, day out, and face intrusive monitoring of their performance. Many workers cannot keep up with the spiralling costs of food, energy and petrol. The latest insulting pay offer is the last straw. The company only want to give their workers an extra 35p an hour – nowhere near enough to cover the bills. In August 2022, protests broke out in Amazon sites across the UK. Amazon workers are standing up to these corporate bullies. These workers know that Amazon will try to stop them from coming together. But they’re not going to let that deter them. We need to stand up alongside them. We need to send a message to Amazon workers across the UK: we support you! Add your name and show Amazon workers that they have got our support all the way!
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  • Stop the cuts to Support staff wages
    Schools Support staff are vital to the running of our Schools and the education our Children. We believe the success of our School and the education they provide will be badly affected by these proposals. School Support staff are some of the lowest paid staff in Schools and proposals to cut their wages in the middle of a cost of living crisis is harsh and wrong.
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  • Defend the Triple Lock
    On 17 November, the government will announce in its autumn statement whether it will reinstate the state pension triple lock for 2023. The triple lock rules that the state pension must rise in line with whichever is highest of inflation, average earnings or 2.5%. The Prime Minister has previously refused to commit to reinstating the triple lock. For 2022, the triple lock was suspended meaning that the state pension rise of 3.1% in April was quickly overtaken by inflation which at that point was already at 11%. The cost of living crisis is really a cost of greed crisis. Profiteering energy companies are driving up energy bills and driving more people into poverty. Older people spend a larger proportion of their fixed income on energy bills, meaning more of Unite's retired members will be forced into an impossible choice - between heating or eating. We are calling on the Prime Minister to do the right thing by our retired members and reinstate the triple lock. *** Join Unite in the fight for dignity in retirement, through Retired Members Plus membership. Join here: https://join.unitetheunion.org/ *** *** You can also write to your MP using the National Pensioner Convention's (NPC) template letter, here: https://www.npcuk.org/post/write-to-your-mp-to-save-the-triple-lock ***
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