At the end of Unite Policy Conference today, Sharon Graham, who leads the Organising and Leverage Department, gave a presentation about a new database which all Unite officers and reps will be able to access online, giving details of agreements at tens…Read more…
What makes us strong
View Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s standing ovation speech in his address to Unite policy conference delegates, July 13.
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Play Nicely!
In my post-Brexit blog I urged, in the words of my old Gran, everyone to ‘cool your wellies’. Sadly, some, most notably the Westminster PLP, ignored that advice. Now we are going to have another…Read more…
United for steel
Stronger together – Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn meeting Unite steel workers at Unite’s policy conference in Brighton, today July 13. Still facing an uncertain future the steel…Read more…
To tackle Brexit and a sluggish global economy, governments must invest in growth and jobs
I’m in Beijing, China for the annual G20 Labour & Employment Ministers meeting (LEMM). Priti Patel has already got on her plane and gone looking for work in Theresa May’s new Cabinet, but trade union leaders from across the world – known as the L20 – are still working…Read more…
Justice fight must go on
After watching an inspirational short film on Unite’s campaign at Sports Direct, conference debated and carried a motion calling for continued support for workers and the fight for decent and fair…Read more…
Shameful attack
Unite members at Wood Group, a multinational oil and gas services company, have overwhelmingly backed taking industrial action in a dispute over pay cuts and changes to allowances. Talks at the…Read more…
Stick together and win
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Cuban Heroes visit Scotland
With all the sound and fury surrounding the PLP ‘rebellion’ against Jeremy Corbyn, it might be a salutory reflection to think what people elsewhere suffer for their beliefs. Rene Gonzalez and Gerardo…Read more…
UNISON Labour Link and the Labour leadership
Union procedures will see all candidates present their case before affiliated political fund national committee decides whether to support a candidate, and who, in consultation with regions
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Standing together against this rise in prejudice
Over 3,000 people reported hate crimes to the police in the weeks around the EU referendum. That’s an increase of nearly 60%. We can only assume that many more crimes went unreported. Racism in…Read more…
Theresa May: our union will continue to challenge and push our agenda
Today, we get a new prime minister: Theresa May – and our union will challenge where necessary but also push our agenda on the issues that matter
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Brexit’s implications for the rest of Europe: relaunch social Europe now!
As I’ve already reported on Stronger Unions, leaders of Europe’s trade union movement visited London on Monday. They were here in part to show solidarity with the British trade union movement post-Brexit. But they were also beginning to grapple with the implications for the rest of…Read more…
Unite Policy Conference 2016 – Tuesday’s business
The biggest debate of the day was around local government cuts. An Executive Statement strengthened Unite’s policy, but didn’t go as far as the motions which fell as a result of it passing.
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‘Miracle’ opportunity
Two of the Miami Five – anti-terrorism campaigners who were wrongly accused of espionage and spent nearly two decades in a US prison – received an emotional standing ovation at Unite’s policy…Read more…
The nation didn’t vote for a Brexit without a plan. Before triggering article 50, we need much broader negotiations
Two-thirds (66%) of voters want to see a broader team negotiating Brexit, including cross-party politicians, trade unions and employers. That’s the finding of a new GQRR poll we’re publishing today. That went for both remainers (69%) and leavers (65%). Only 10% of respondents thought the government…Read more…
Labour pulls back from the abyss
I was so, so relieved to hear tonight that the Labour Party NEC has decided that the elected Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, will be on the ballot paper for the forthcoming leadership challenge.
I honesty feared that the Party would implode if this did n…Read more…
Fighting trade union spirit
For the third consecutive year, on July 9, 150,000 people attended the Durham Miners’ Gala or ‘Big Meeting’ that is held against the spectacular backdrop of Durham Castle and…Read more…
‘We are on your side’
Yesterday (July 11) Unite policy conference made it clear that defending and securing the jobs of tens of thousands of defence workers involved in the successor submarine programme was its priority….Read more…
Why Theresa May is right – and the FT is wrong – about co-determination
It was the UK’s first woman Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who said “It’s a funny old world” as she was about to take her leave of Downing Street. Now the second woman to enter the UK’s most famous address, Theresa May, is setting out her policy stall and has advocated both an active industrial…Read more…