A UK and Irish trade union with members across many industries and the public sector.
Airbus chief Guillaume Faury is understood to have written to the prime minister over the £2.4bn Skynet 6 contract, the Guardian reports. Lockheed Martin's rival bid includes a Durham factory that north-east politicians back.
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Carlsberg Britvic plans to shut Marston's Brewery in Burton and its logistics operation in 2027, saying UK cask ale volumes more than halved in under a decade. Personnel Today put the jobs affected at about 310 as the company leaves the Burton site entirely.
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Royal Mail plans to cut up to 2,500 head office and support roles by the end of 2027, with no reductions in frontline delivery and processing jobs. At under 2% of its 131,000 staff, the plan trims the centre of the business and leaves the network that carries the post intact.
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Glasgow City Council dropped a fire-and-rehire threat to 23,000 staff by agreeing three years of pay protection with its unions. The equal-pay regrading still needs union members' votes, and for staff who lose under the new grades the deal delays the cut until the protection ends.
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Unite and RMT members will strike for six days on Harbour Energy's North Sea platforms, saying contractor Wood Group threatened to fire and rehire them. Harbour expects to maintain production, a forecast the RMT's open-ended overtime ban will test.
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Unite says more than 160 Apache offshore workers on the Forties and Beryl fields could strike later this month over a 4% pay offer. The union warns of severe harm to UK fuel supply, a claim Apache answers by comparing any pipeline pressure drop to routine maintenance.
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Glasgow City Council has put all 23,000 non-teaching staff on fire-and-rehire notice over a new equal-pay grading system that would cut pay for 11%. Council leader Ricky Bell's idea of dismissing only Unison members has the union taking legal advice.
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