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It's looking at a range of potential cost cuts, including temporary pay freezes for staff whose existing wage deals are coming to an end.

However, Unite, the union which represents Ryanair staff in the UK, says it's not been advised of any such proposal and already has a pay agreement in place that covers next year.

Prosecutors in Italy have reopened their investigation into the murder of the controversial film director Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.

A teenage male sex worker confessed to killing him at the time.

Then we will have Cian Cotter, barrister at law, whose paper is entitled Protected Disclosures, A Day in the Life of a Whistleblower 2026.

Protections and Pitfalls, followed by Cathy Maguire, Senior Counsel, All Change, H.A. O'Neill and Unite the Union and the Law on Trade Disputes in Ireland.

And finally, our final speaker for session one is Mr.

Mark Connaughton, Senior Counsel, with a paper entitled Why Mediate Employment Disputes? And session two starts at 4 p.m., where we are delighted to say that we have our keynote speaker for this year is Professor Brian Barry of Trinity College.

Thanks very much, Rosemary.

So I'll be speaking about industrial action and specifically injunctions to restrain strikes and picketing and the recalibration of the law, which was affected by a case.

called H.A. O'Neill and Unite the Union from 2024.

And in order to understand the case, you do need to have a brief overview of the state of the law prior to that, the brief terms of the Trade Disputes Act 1906, the Industrial Relations Act 1990, and effectively the failure by the courts to properly implement key provisions of the 1990 Act.

I mean, I have to say on the supermarkets, what you've seen, and we've Got some evidence from Verdant coming out fairly shortly.

What you do see, although others have picked up on it, Unite, the union had some good work around this a few years back, is an expansion of margins when you have a price shock.

The kind of Isabella Weber thing does play out in the food system.

in Britain, to at least some extent.

Now, bus company employees will see the introduction of a new pay band across all grades, as well as improved benefits and working conditions, thanks to an agreement reached by the General and Clerical Association.

Now, bus company workers were at the centre of a dispute between the GGCA and Unite the Union earlier this year, when the GGCA accused Unite of trying to poach its bus company members.

I'm now joined by GGCA President Darren Serizola.

Good afternoon.

ELFT ballot closes 9th of November by Tods Hamer.

Workers at East London NHS Foundation Trust continue their Unite Union ballots for strikes against the 330 job cuts, the victimisation of Branch Secretary Mark Dunn, and pay.

The balance takes place amidst the news that the government intends to impose a below-inflation 2.4% pay rise for 2027-28.

If this imposition goes unchallenged, this will be the 17th year in a row that NHS workers have suffered a real-terms pay cut, 17 years of squeezing more work for less pay.

Welcome to the Facts and Figures Cost of Living Update for October brought to you by Unite the Union.

Prices rose 3.9% in the year to September as measured by the Retail Price Index or RPI.

Inflation will rise significantly this year.

Either way, it's workers who will be left out of pocket.

We need pay deals that reflect this.

Unite reps can use forecast RPI to set the floor for pay deals this month.

An energy price post festive hangover awaits us.

A further 25% hike to energy prices is expected in January.

It ties into the fact that we need to be pretty honest with ourselves when we get dependent on Chinese companies and Chinese technology, that we are making a deal with a state that has very different So who should be running it? Look, I would like it to be a private business running itself again.

But as long as the energy prices are four times those of France and seven times those of the United States, that simply isn't possible.

So for now, we need to keep it going.

We need to make sure that we have the capability to produce steel in the UK.