Tag: job cuts
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Devastating cuts to Roads Service maintenance budget will compromise Road Safety
Reduction proposed to inspections regime, range of potholes patched and materials budget Unite is consulting workers on response to management proposals March 30: Unite’s Regional Officer with responsibility for employees at the Roads Service, Gareth Scott has warned about the impact of the devastating cuts to the service: “Unite representatives have been informed of plans…
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Belfast Metropolitan College management warn staff of up to 113 full-time job losses
Scale of redundancies will have devastating impact on quality of educational provision Union blasts attack on educational provision that will undermine future economic growth March 24: The Regional Chair of Unite, Liam Gallagher, expressed his union’s disgust at the threatened job losses at Belfast Metropolitan College. “Unite members at Belfast Met have been told by…
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Greenmount college training department closure another blow to rural economy
Closure of training department will further erode productivity growth in agricultural sector March 23: Unite’s Regional Officer with responsibility for DARD employees, Gareth Scott warned about the impact of the decision of Greenmount college management to close their training department at the cost of twenty full-time jobs due to austerity pressures. “This is yet another…
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Unite seek urgent meeting with Minister Kennedy over bus and rail cuts
Translink management say Minister is preventing disclosure of full scale of cuts to union Monday, March 2nd: Unite Officer with responsibility for Public Transport, Davy McMurray, has written to demand an urgent meeting with DRD Minister, Danny Kennedy, after Translink management excused their refusal to give details on planned cuts as having been ordered by…
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Unite to defend Northern Ireland’s bus and rail services
Threat to local bus services will have huge impact on older people, disabled, families and working poor in regional towns December 5th: Davy McMurray, lead Regional Officer for public transport in Unite expressed Unite’s total opposition to proposals which would see a range of urban bus services discontinued, cuts to rail services and a hike in…
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Unite NI members in M&S demo over job cuts
Unite members stage Belfast picket against M&S over its plan to close the DHL-run warehouse services in Mallusk