Thanks to everyone for attending today. Unfortunately I cannot stay for the whole of the meeting as I have to rush back to speak at Unite’s fringe on Brexit in thirty minutes. Firstly, as the…Read more…
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US Unions & Trump’s NAFTA Renegotiations
NAFTA is back in the spotlight 23 years after it became law. Donald Trump pledged to withdraw from it. Instead he’s seeking to renegotiate it (in secret). The first round of talks wrapped up August…Read more…
French Labour Law Reform – Why The CGT Says “Non”
In 2016, the French government, led by PM Manuel Valls, forced a law through Parliament, the so-called “El-Khomri Labour Law” (after the name of the then-Labour Minister). There is an article in the…Read more…
Highly Respected Trade Unionist ‘Sacked’ From EHRC Board
Sarah Veale, a highly respected trade unionist has been effectively dismissed by the Minister of Women and Equalities Justine Greening from her position on the board of the Equality and Human Rights…Read more…
Brexit: The EU Thinks We Have A “Cunning Plan”
Reports from the EU say some of the EU 27 think that the UK has hatched a cunning plan behind the shambles currently afflicting the Government and our UK negotiating team! This helpful little guide…Read more…
Mr. Fox Goes To Washington – Why?
UK trade secretary Liam Fox MP is visted Washington, D.C. on Monday, 24th July for talks with the US administration on a future UK-US trade deal. As representatives of working people on both sides of…Read more…
Electric Vehicle Market sparks into life as ICE age comes to end?
Professor David Bailey on the boom in electric vehicles It seems that electric vehicles (EVs) are finally coming of age as barriers to take up start to fall, costs decline, and range and performance…Read more…
Brexit Chickens Coming Home To Roost
“The Brexit chickens are coming home to roost” a prominant person in the automotive industry told me during a discussion about the announcement by Michel Barnier that the UK would not…Read more…
Macron Hopes To Use French Summer Holidays To Drive Through Labour Reforms
The new French President Emmanuel Macron has said he intends to reform France’s labour laws before the end of this summer after meeting unions and telling them he ‘intends to act…Read more…
United Steelworkers Slams Trump Paris Decision.
United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard released the following statement after President Trump announced his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement….Read more…
Morning Star to publish General Election Special edition
Britain’s only socialist daily newspaper is producing a special bumper election edition to be handed out free at supermarkets June 1st (Thursday). 175,000 copies of the Morning Star – featuring…Read more…
Unite warns voters ‘Tories are no friends of the North’
The Conservative Party is ‘no friend of the North’ but instead the party of the ‘leafy shires and the lucky few’, Unite the country’s largest union is warning. Billboards carrying that message will…Read more…
Only Labour Backs UK Manufacturing.
Finnish Unions Create New Industrial Union
Three Finnish trade unions have come together to create a new union – the Finnish Industrial Union. The merger was initially repoerted on this site in December 2016. The industrial and general…Read more…
What Is Really Happenning In Venezuela – Watch Here.
Labour’s Workers Charter
At last a radical employment rights programme set out by the Labour Party – can anyone disagree with these proposals? LABOUR’S WORKERS CHARTER Give all workers equal rights from day one,…Read more…
Support US Car Workers Fighting For Union Recogntion
United Auto Workers (the US car workers union) and their members at Local 42 in Chattanooga, Tennessee have been locked in a battle with Volkswagen for the right to union recognition and collective…Read more…