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• Don't end furlough, adapt it to avoid a bleak autumn and provide longer-term support for workers, urges Unite
  On the eve of the government’s contribution to the furlough scheme reducing to 60 per cent of wage costs, the country's leading manufacturing union, Unite, has today (Saturday 31 July) called for the government to rethink its plans to end the scheme altogether in September.
• Ealing Serco parking strikes suspended as hopes of peace deal rise
  The first two days of the latest Ealing parking enforcement strikes have been suspended, as hopes of a deal to end the dispute increased.
• Ballot over parity pay for HGV drivers could hit deliveries to 1,500 convenience stores in London and south east, Unite warns
  Booker Retail Partners, the wholesale supplier to independent retailers under the Budgens and Londis brands, put in place a temporary £5 an hour pay uplift for drivers at its Hemel Hempstead depot because of the HGV driver shortage, but then refused to implement a similar uplift for the 30 drivers at the Thamesmead site.