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Critics concerned as Wagestream offers loans of up to £25,000 to workers at Pizza Express, Asda and others‘The app’s like candy’: Wagestream borrowers’ concernsLow-wage workers are being offered a controversial new type of high-interest loan of up to £…
GMB in dispute with council in Peterborough and Aberdeen staff in dispute over working conditionsBin strikes could spread to other council areas across the country as cash-strapped local authorities make more cuts, a union leader has warned as the disp…
Unions urge energy giant EDF to take action as concerns mount over health of construction staffWorkers building the troubled Hinkley Point C nuclear reactor in Somerset have raised concerns that the construction site is overrun by rats.The Unite and GM…
Exclusive: Union concerned over safety as site’s bosses say budget does not cover work plannedSellafield has said nearly £3bn in new funding is “not enough” and bosses are now examining swingeing cuts, prompting fears over jobs and safety at the vast n…
Unions say move could force Tata’s automative steel factory at Llanwern to close, costing 600 jobsLarge parts of the Port Talbot steelworks will be closed or mothballed for years, and would leave the plant and its few remaining workers reliant on impor…
GMB union is supporting 3,000 claims in Birmingham – and is gathering evidence from 20 other councilsCouncils in the UK are facing compensation bills running into billions of pounds over equal pay claims, campaigners have warned, as they called on the …
Union calls for employees to be prioritised as rescue bid from Canadian entrepreneur said to have been rebuffedUnion leaders have called for Wilko’s 12,500 employees to be prioritised, after a deal that could have rescued jobs at the ailing budget chai…
CEOs received average increase of 16% while pay of many working for them failed to keep up with inflationThe bosses of the UK’s 100 biggest listed companies collected an average £500,000 pay rise last year, while many of the millions of people working …
Administrators try to secure rescue deal for retailer, with talks expected to go on well into next weekWilko has launched an “everything must go” sale with significant discounts on Christmas decorations and Halloween gear months before the seasonal eve…
Exclusive: Nearly 50 GMB members to stop work at Ayrshire site that assembles Storm Shadow and Brimstone missilesWorkers at a munitions plant that supplies Ukraine with missiles are going on strike for two weeks in an escalating dispute over pay and bo…