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🚨BREAKING Deal agreed to end bins strike after 15 months!
It is an absolute abhorrence that this deal has been blocked not just once but twice by unelected unaccountable commissioners and officers at Birmingham City Council.
Congratulations to the Unite members who stood firm throughout, backed by their union.
“The move made today by the leader of the council is a vindication of the bin workers’ struggle for a decent deal” @UniteSharon

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No one should have to choose between caring responsibilities and maintaining a career or financial stability.
Many Unite reps are carers themselves, often trying to balance demanding responsibilities both at home and in the workplace.
As part of the Carers Week, Unite is organising a dedicated session for Unite reps on 10 June, focused on improving support for workers with caring responsibilities.
Register in advance at https://t.co/UW2xJHWMzw

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🏳️‍🌈Unite activists will be at Pride events across the UK and Ireland over #PrideMonth2026 & through the summer.
Want to join us? Want to know how you can help make our workplaces and communities more equal? Check our Pride Map https://t.co/Dd4ayolWid

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Love Unites! Although June is globally celebrated as Pride month, the fight for LGBT+ equality continues every month, every day.

Happy Pride month from Unite your union!
🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🩶🤍🤎

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⚡One last question for Ed_Miliband: UK Households and businesses pay some of the highest energy costs in Europe. Much of that is driven by profits, which are then distributed to investors in dividends & share buy-backs.
Will you take energy, starting with the grid, into public hands to end profiteering and drive down costs?

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☀️When it's hot in the city it can be even hotter on the bus 🚍
♻️ Pls share and🗣️comment. Tell @TfL, bus operators, @H_S_E & @transportgovuk to act.
Thanks to this wonderful passenger for her empathy and concern 🙏

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When a bus driver was feeling ill because of the heat, this passenger stepped in to help.

We need a maximum working temperature to protect workers.

Credit: @toki_merekichika on IG

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⚡Another question for @Ed_Miliband:
Instead of allowing foreign billionaires & states to rake profits out of our energy system (Warren Buffet is the largest shareholder in Northern Powergrid & the Norwegian Government made nearly £6bn in gas profits from the UK 💰💰), why not take energy into public hands?
Agree? Comment & Share ♻️

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Not a member yet? Join the winning union
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Unite leading the fight for workers ✊

#JobsPayConditions

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3: A Unite Investigates report last year found that in 2024, energy companies made £30bn in pre-tax profits!
That’s every UK household on average paying £500 in profits for big energy.
When household energy bills have increased by 42% since Winter 2021.
How will you stop this profiteering @Ed_Miliband ?
https://t.co/E1CN6lV9a7

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MPs are discussing the energy industry this morning. So we’ll be tweeting some questions we think need answering. Feel free to ask your own.
1 Where are the new, green jobs for a ‘just’ transition to green energy @Ed_Miliband ?

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2 To meet the demand to install & maintain the PV panels, wind turbines, car chargers, battery storage… we could:
a) Invest in quality apprenticeships, leading to good jobs on union rates of pay for electricians, as unions suggest. Or:
b) Deskill the industry & ‘quick train’ fitters to slap them in – failing the hundreds of thousands of young people in need of work & endangering the public, as some lobbyists suggest
So what will it be @Ed_Miliband ?

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Agree with Unite that we should invest in electrical apprenticeships? Sign our petition https://t.co/26TBaNKxJG

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✈️Publish the plan. Protect jobs!
"The government's ongoing failure to produce the Defence Investment Plan is a threat to British jobs & skills. Money must be spent in the UK.
Get Typhoon, Skynet & the A400M transport plane signed off & production lines in Britain rolling" @UniteSharon
https://t.co/Y0mUJxVg4J

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“We will translate defence spending into British growth, British jobs, British skills & British innovation.” It's over a year since Keir Starmer made this promise to UK defence workers.
MPs discuss defence procurement today. Will Starmer finally come through on his promise, publish the Defence Investment Plan & commit to workers like those at BAE in Warton?
“Far too many defence workers are looking over their shoulders wondering where the next order will come from while the government sits on its hands. This uncertainty must end” @UniteSharon

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The rapid expansion of green energy could drive youth employment & economic growth. Or it could be another race to the bottom. Support Unite's call for:
⚡Properly trained, competent electricians carrying out the work
⚡Investment in apprenticeships and upskilling
⚡Protection for electrical skills, jobs and safety standards
⚡A clean energy transition built on union labour and quality employment
Add your name to the petition here: https://t.co/D8arATZTN7

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WINNING AT WORK!
✊ Oxalis: 4% rise + £1500 for 2025; 5.4% for 2026; inflation or 3% whichever is the higher, for 2027 and 2028. Plus improved employer pension contributions and sick pay and rest day allowances.
✊ Union rights for 1,400 workers in Northern Ireland at Seagate
✊ Union rights for St John Ambulance and Rescue Service in Guernsey
✊ Pay parity with drivers in Sheffield; £850 one-off fixed payment; sick pay from day one and extra leave for First Bus S Yorkshire drivers in Doncaster
💥 Unite members have won over £630 million in better pay through strikes alone since @UniteSharon was elected general secretary in 2021
#FightbackFriday #JobsPayConditions

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As strike action concludes, Unite members in Cambridge University remain determined to continue the fight for fair pay and Cambridge Weighting.

Show your support ✊:
https://t.co/dTgXneam2E

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3 stories on the water industry. Can you spot the link?
🚰 Thousands without water
💩 Sewage pumped into the sea in a 'storm overflow' during a drought
💰 Record profits
How long do we have to put up with this?
“Unite will continue its campaign to see water brought back into public ownership so profits can be reinvested in vital infrastructure instead of paying millions to management executives and lining the pockets of American hedge funds” @UniteSharon

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🏠 Mortgage rates have spiked since the Iran war
📈 Increased social care, child care, and leisure costs also add to workers burden. The UK is the most expensive country for childcare in Europe and our social care system is mostly privatised
So, whilst RPI shows prices up 3%, cost rises like these mean many workers experience rises in living costs way beyond this.
Unite reps can read more in https://t.co/2SOKpjeQHt to help negotiating for the pay rises members need

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Here's something govt & industry could do today:
⚡️Create quality apprenticeships, leading to proper jobs as electricians on union rates of pay
🤜Cutting unemployment amongst young workers & driving a transition to a green economy
📣Don't let the industry deskill just when we need jobs & training the most. Sign our petition https://t.co/D8arATZTN7

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More than one million 16-24 year-olds not in education, employment or training, as report warns of "lost generation" - follow live https://t.co/2WeDmHgb7H

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🏥Workers at Addenbrookes Hospital are struggling to pay their housing costs and they've had enough. That's why they are striking to demand @CUH_NHS pay up!
Pls support them by signing the petition below👇

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Our NHS members deserve fair pay and the chance to live in the communities they serve. Sign the petition and support the campaign for HCAS in Cambridge:

https://t.co/FYdbZEgkJM

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💰GKN made £647 million from these workers and their CEO trousered a bonus of £45 million
But they can't afford a fair pay deal?
✊ #Solidarity to Unite members on strike at GKN in Filton

[Sharon Graham @UniteSharon]

GKN's parent company CEO got a bonus of 45 million pounds, the biggest bonus in the entire FTSE 100, yet it still sees fit to try and short-change our members.

Unite will back these workers 100% as they fight for a fair pay deal at GKN Aerospace.