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Low paid, frontline Thompsons’ feedmill workers insulted with pay increase of as little as seven pence an hour while millions go to shareholders in dividends

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Unite the union NI

Accounts confirm company profits of more than four million a year, 70 percent paid out to coupon-clippers as dividends, while workers offered a bare 0.6 percent pay increase Unite Regional Officer, Sean McKeever, challenged the insulting pay offer of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Living Wage, Manufacturing, Northern Ireland news, Press Releases | Tagged Belfast, dividends, frontline workers, John Thompson & Sons Ltd, poverty pay, Queens University Belfast, Sean McKeever, Thompson's Feeds | 1 Comment

Campaigners call on Marks & Spencer to intervene over BA Betrayal

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Unite the union NI

WHAT: BA Betrayal demonstration outside M&S WHERE: Marks and Spencer, 48 Donegal Place, Belfast BT1 5BY WHEN: 12.30pm, Friday July 31st 2020 Campaigners against British Airways’ plans to fire its workforce and rehire those that survive on inferior contracts are calling on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Northern Ireland news, Press Releases | Tagged #BABetrayal, Belfast, British Airways, Davy Kettyles | 1 Comment

Urgent strategy needed to defend Northern Ireland’s Aerospace sector in face of mass jobs threat

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Unite the union NI

Bombardier plans for 600 redundancies comes only days after similar announcements elsewhere in sector Stormont Executive challenged over inaction in face of mounting threat to vital Aerospace sector Reacting to today’s huge job loss announcement by Bombardier, Susan Fitzgerald, Unite … Continue reading →

Posted in Manufacturing, Northern Ireland news, Press Releases | Tagged #backBombardierjobs, Aerospace, aviation, Belfast, Bombardier, GMB, job losses, NI Executive, Susan Fitzgerald, Unite the union | 1 Comment

Global Payments Inc. announce net revenues of $1.7 billion for first quarter of 2020 but threaten Northern Ireland workers with redundancy

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Unite the union NI

Management claims that the Covid-19 pandemic ‘significantly and negatively impacted’ their business is belied by bumper quarterly returns Global Payments Inc is a global US-headquartered company operating in the payment technology and software sector with offices in Belfast and Derry/L’Derry as well … Continue reading →

Posted in Northern Ireland news, Press Releases | Tagged #Unite4Jobs, Belfast, Covid-19, Derry/Londonderry, Global Payments Inc., jobs threat, Kevin McAdam, pay cuts, Redundancies | 2 Comments

Stormont must extend income guarantee to self-employed to protect private hire taxi drivers

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Unite the union NI

Taxi drivers face pauperisation from depot-rent and car-rent charges at time of sharp downturn in fares Unite Regional Community Coordinator, Albert Hewitt, called on the Ministers in the Stormont Executive to intervene to extend the Coronavirus income guarantee to … Continue reading →