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Every Friday here on UniteLIVE, we bring you the latest heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus crisis. Here are this week’s latest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HEROES<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

easyJet <\/em><\/strong>and Dnata Catering members fighting for their livelihoods<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week, Unite members working for two aviation companies which have made brutal cuts on the back of the Covid-19 pandemic brought their call for the government to provide long-promised support to the sector to Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workers – all members of Unite, which organised the demonstration – included those currently employed by low cost airline easyJet and Dnata Catering UK, the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading inflight caterers, as well as those who have recently lost their jobs with easyJet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

easyJet workers protested the airline’s decision on August 31 to close its bases at Newcastle, Southend and Stansted airports with the loss of over 600 cabin crew jobs. In total the company is in the process of making over 1,200 cabin crew redundant, one quarter of its entire cabin crew workforce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Dnata Catering members are facing a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098fire and rehire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 scenario which will see them have their pay and conditions cut and will be employed on contracts of just 20 hours a week, plunging them into poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A number of Labour MPs, including Angela Rayner and Seema Malholtra among others, stood with the protesting workers in solidarity as they called for chancellor Rishi Sunak to step in and support the aviation sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks to @AngelaRayner<\/a> and @SeemaMalhotra1<\/a> and all MPs who joined our Dnata inflight catering members yesterday demanding an end to #fireandrehire<\/a>, and urgent government support from @RishiSunak<\/a> for an industry in tailspin.#SaveUKAviation<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/GiLvs6337M<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Unite the union: join a union (@unitetheunion) September 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n