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The Latest Breaking News from Unite

Council leaders make ‘best and final’ offer in bid to avert school strikes

Schools across Scotland are likely to close if the three-day walkout planned for next week still goes ahead.

The Independent UK

Union extends deadline to council body ahead of imminent Scottish school strikes

Unite has given Cosla until 5pm on Thursday to table a fresh pay offer or janitors, classroom assistants and cooking staff will walk out.

The Independent UK

Labour would seek ‘much better’ Brexit deal from Brussels – Starmer

The Labour leader spent the weekend meeting fellow centre-left leaders in Montreal.

The Independent UK

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Unite launches ‘red wall’ campaign in push for radical Labour policies

Keir Starmer could end up on the back foot as his party’s main backer launches campaigns on energy, steel and green jobs in red wall seats

The Guardian - UK

Yousaf: Only limited financial help for councils in bid to avert school strikes

Staff are due to walk out later this month, which could see schools forced to close.

The Independent UK

Scottish schools facing closures after third union rejects pay offer and strikes loom

SCHOOLS in Scotland are facing weeks of closures and disruption after a third union rejected a new pay offer.

The National (Scotland)

‘Eyes on the prize’: union delegates dial down doubts about Keir Starmer

At likely final gathering of the TUC before next general election, focus was on chucking the Tories out of office

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Union slams ‘unnecessary and unjustified’ decision as Barclays set to cut more than 450 jobs

The cuts represent around 1% of Barclays’ UK workforce

Evening Standard

Scottish packing plant for major UK supermarkets announces strike dates

Trade union Unite said about 100 members would take part in five 12-hour stoppages in September at the Dupont Teijin Films (DTF) site in the…

The National (Scotland)

Now even the Bank of England admits greedflation is a thing

Work by Threadneedle Street’s own analysts suggest that firms are intending to keep prices high, despite falling costs

The Guardian - UK

Scottish schools will close during three-day staff strike, unions warn

Workers including cleaners, caterers and janitors will walk out from September 26 to 28.

The Independent UK

Strike action by Scottish college workers ‘deeply disappointing’, say bosses

College Employers Scotland said strike action will ‘only cause disruption and anxiety for students’.

The Independent UK

Call for talks to safeguard jobs amid ‘tough decisions’ at Birmingham council

The council does not have the money to pay off an equal pay liability, estimated to be more than £1 billion.

The Independent UK

KP Nuts factory strikes postponed for pay offer vote

Unite previously warned its members at the site would start a week-long walkout on Tuesday because they are ‘sick of being paid peanuts’.

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Supermarket sandwiches under threat as factory workers set to strike

Over 500 workers at Greencore are set to strike over what the Unite union has called ‘poverty levels of pay’

The Independent UK

Government ‘in talks with Tata Steel to provide £500m funding package’

A deal being negotiated with the company would reportedly secure £1 billion for its Port Talbot steelworks but may lead to thousands of job losses.

The National (Scotland)

Scottish Water staff set to strike amid pay and conditions dispute

Hundreds of Scottish Water staff have backed strike action amid claims the organisation attempted to force through changes to pay and conditions…

The Independent UK

Scottish Water staff vote to strike amid dispute over pay and conditions

Unions say the firm is trying to force through changes.

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Evening Standard

Four major London NHS trusts hit by fresh strikes over pay and staff shortages

Thousands of workers in hospitals including Guy’s and St Thomas’ and Barts to walk out next month

The Independent UK

Workers at four London NHS Trusts to strike in pay and staffing dispute

The strikes will be held on various days between September 13 and 22.

The Guardian - UK

UK unions say cutting maternity pay for striking pregnant workers is ‘immoral’

Exclusive: Unite and Unison join campaigners urging government to exempt strike days from maternity calculations

The Independent UK

Strike by workers at homelessness charity St Mungo’s ends as pay row resolved

Unite said its members had accepted an inflation-beating pay increase worth 10.7%.

The Independent UK

Union tells KP Snacks before walkout: If you pay peanuts, expect strike action

Members of Unite at the KP Snacks site in Rotherham will walk out on September 5 after voting by 83% in favour of industrial action.

Evening Standard

Strike threat at Gatwick over as workers accept improved pay offers

Unite said it has now secured eight pay deals at the airport without going ahead with strike action.

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s new deal for workers could be transformative, but unions fear Starmer won’t stick to it

Will the party continue to water down its manifesto under pressure from business? The signs are not promising, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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