the union believes the coventry warehouse employs 1,300 people, and that a majority want to be represented by the union. they ve applied for statutory recognition from an organisation known as the central arbitration committee. at its warehouse in dartford, the company has addressed the issue of recognition for the first time in an interview. but the truth is you are going to do everything in your power as a company to keep that union out, aren t you? we respect our workers rights tojoin or not tojoin a union, and we re working with the cac as part of the gmb s formal application for recognition. but, i mean, you re not going to recognise them, are you? you will do everything in your power to stop that from happening. we re working through a formal process with the cac. so if the gmb can show they have got a majority of workers in coventry, you will recognise them? there s a formal process under way. the gmb have made a formal application to the central arbitration committee
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episodes. remember not that long ago the drone that appeared to target the drone that appeared to target the kremlin? but this does appear to involve a number of drones, we don t know how many, at least eight, some reports suggest many more. there is a lively debate going on about the type of drone that was used. our colleagues at bbc verify our study on those videos in an temp two get to the bottom of exactly what we are looking at. we are talking about a target around 300 miles from ukraine. it is within range of some of the munitions ukrainians have. you mentioned it in your introduction, 17 attacks on kyiv this month alone. there is the view that this is a case of ukraine giving moscow a taste of its own medicine. there had been warning last few days that there would be some kind of response if this relentless nightly and in some cases daily attack on the ukrainian capital went on. we are still attempting to get to the bottom of it, but it is likely ukraine did this to gi
for many of us today it is going to be dry, sunny and warm, except across the very far north of scotland and parts of eastern england, where we hang onto more cloud. that will suppress the temperatures. details later in the programme. good morning. it s tuesday, the 30th of may. new measures to crackdown on the use of vapes by children in england, are set to be unveiled by the government. ministers have pledged to close a loophole allowing retailers to give free samples to children, and a ban on nicotine free vapes for under 18 s is also being considered. our health editor hugh pym has the details. a recent laboratory test for bbc news on illegal vapes confiscated at a school showed some had more than twice the safe amount of lead, and nine times the safe amount of nickel. the prime minister said he was shocked by this report, and said he was taking further action to clamp down on rogue firms who unlawfully target children with these products. the measures include closing a l
it s part of apple s commitment to invest $430 billion into the american economy and. it also comes at a time when washington is trying to reduce its reliance on foreign trade, foreign on foreign made chips. my colleague samira hussain explains. the 56 chips apple is buying from broadcom will be designed and built in the us. it is the latest business deal between the two companies. in 2020, broadcom said it would sell $15 billion of wireless components to apple. the deal fits the brief apple set out for it self to invest more in the us economy. it also goes hand in hand with a push to get more us companies to use domestically made microchips. the supply chain disruptions during the pandemic triggered a semiconductor shortage which showed just how reliant us companies had become on chips made overseas, specifically in china and taiwan. which many us officials see as a national security concern. since then, the us has been privatising domestic production of semiconductors as it