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Employment Rights Bill ‘can’t come soon enough’

Responding to the government’s road map for implementing the bill, UNISON calls its reforms ‘popular, long overdue and exactly what staff are calling for’

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Striking cleaners meet Christina McAnea

Pay up Mitie: Striking cleaners demand the pay that they are owed

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Is the four day week the future of work?

We talk to the first council in the UK to trial a four-day work week with no loss of pay

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What’s a phlebotomist and why are they on strike?

Phlebotomists in Gloucestershire have been on strike for 100 days. What do they do are why are they striking?

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How we got our mojo back

Or how the Employment Rights Bill will liberate trade unions from the legal shackles imposed by the Tories and transform industrial relations – in ways that benefit all workers

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Care recruitment crisis won’t end while workers are living in poverty, says UNISON

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