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14 July 2011
Unite members at four British Sugar plants in the east of England are to be balloted on industrial action, after the workforce rejected a 3.5 per cent pay offer.
13 July 2011
Workers from Sainsbury’s stores from across the UK today (Wednesday 13 July) protested outside the company’s annual general meeting in London.
12 July 2011
Unite will be creating a 'song and dance' at the M&S AGM in a musical protest at low pay and insecure labour at one of its suppliers Thanet Earth.
11 July 2011
From Wednesday 13 July Unite the union will start to ballot its members at Coca-Cola Enterprises that work in distribution centres across the country in a dispute about pay.
11 July 2011
From Wednesday 13 July Unite the union will start to ballot its members at Coca-Cola Enterprises that work in distribution centres across the country in a dispute about pay. If a strike goes ahead the supplies of the popular refreshment will be severely hit across the country.
04 July 2011
Unilever workers from across UK sites will take their pension battle to London tomorrow (Tuesday) to the Business in the Community’s Awards for Excellence Gala Dinner, sponsored by Unilever - Company of the Year 2010 -to urge leading businesses to give their backing to the campaign to halt the food and household giant’s plans to scrap their pension scheme.
01 July 2011
Unite activists, joined by a giant tomato, will be dumping unwanted tomatoes at Marks & Spencer’s headquarters in a protest at the alleged treatment of workers at one of M&S’s suppliers, Thanet Earth.
09 March 2011
Unite, the UK's largest trade union representing thousands of members employed by or reliant on the tobacco industry, said today’s (Wednesday) announcement of the government’s intention to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes would amount to a "Counterfeiters' Charter".
04 March 2011
The skilled workforce who have spent years manufacturing high quality confectionary now face an uncertain future.
07 June 2010
World Cup sponsor Coca-Cola could see supplies of the soft drink dry up this summer unless it reverses its decision to freeze its workforce out of discussions on their own pay and pensions.
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