Tag Archives: Unite NI

Junior Doctors’ protest at City Hall is an opportunity for public to demonstrate their support for the NHS

Union confirms its discussing resumption of industrial action over Health Minister’s failure to address issue of poverty pay Northern Ireland now only part of UK where healthcare workers have not received a recommended one percent pay increase October 15th: Unite … Continue reading

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Unite: Lidl ‘Living Wage’ Pay decision – an all-island Fair Pay Victory!

Company u-turn demonstrates power of workers getting organised with Unite Other retailers are now ‘on notice’ – they must match Lidl’s Living Wage policy October 8th: Unite Regional Officer, Susan Fitzgerald, welcomed Lidl’s announcement that it would now include workers … Continue reading

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Lidl dismisses worker after he questions discriminatory pay policy on Facebook

Public opinion strongly backs demand for Pay Equality, local political leaders will write to company’s German headquarters Unite has called a solidarity protest for Pay Equality outside Lidl on High Street, Belfast this Thursday (October 8th) at 5pm October 5th: … Continue reading

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Women have borne brunt of austerity, Unite women’s conference told

Minimalist Minimum Wage increases North and South inadequate response to in-work poverty Strategies need to make Ireland a Living Wage island October 2nd: Unite’s Regional Women’s Conference is being held today. Issues of concern to working women in both the … Continue reading

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Employment Tribunal finds in favour of Dunnes Stores worker denied union representation

Unite Legal Services victory results in Coleraine worker being awarded £400 compensation  September 24th: Unite Regional Officer, Philip Oakes, welcomed the decision of the Tribunal which found that Dunnes stores had breached the legislation twice: “Unite Legal Services took this … Continue reading

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