By David Bailey, Professor of Industry at Aston Business School After its best first half year in ages, UK car and engine manufacturing took something of a hit last month, as annual summer shutdowns…Read more…
Steelworkers Gear Up For Lock Out
Rallies and marches have been planned from 19 to 21 August at ArcelorMittal facilities in four states: West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana as the United Steelworkers prepare for a major…Read more…
Tory Party March & Rally, October 4th
Sunday 4 October – “No to austerity, yes to workers’ rights” On Sunday 4 October, the Conservative party will open their annual conference in Manchester. After five years of austerity, falling…Read more…
What sort of industrial policy do we really need? Part One.
By David Bailey, Phil Tomlinson and Keith Cowling It seems that the new BIS Secretary Sajid Javid is undertaking a ‘fundamental review’ of the government’s industrial policy as he wonders what a…Read more…
What sort of industrial policy do we really need? Part Two.
By David Bailey, Phil Tomlinson and Keith Cowling The last coalition government’s record in relation to industrial policy has been mixed. George Osborne made promising noises in the early days about…Read more…
Fast Food Workers In L.A. & N.Y.C Win Pay Deals
US Fast Food workers have won two important victories in their fight for better wages as both Los Angeles County and New York State voted to raise minimum wages says the Global union, the…Read more…
‘March of the Makers’ goes into reverse
By David Bailey Whatever happened to the ‘March of the Makers’ and the much heralded rebalancing the British economy? This year has so far been pretty dire for UK manufacturing. The…Read more…
Speech At The CSEU On The Trade Union Bill
Union members from across shipbuilding and engineering today (July 15th) slammed the government’s Trade Union Bill, as unjust and in favour of employers. Moving an emergency motion, Unite assistant…Read more…
USW Toronto :Crown Packaging Workers Have “Tentative” Deal
The 22 month strike at Crown Packaging in Toronto looks like it could be over soon. A tentative agreement reached in the last week. 120 USW members at Crown Holdings Inc.’s Toronto plant have…Read more…
The Ross Pritchard Annual Essay Competition
The Ross Pritchard Annual Essay Competition, is open to all trade unionists. First prize £750, closing date Saturday 26th September. The RPMF was established to commemorate the life of one of the…Read more…
Orgreave: Media Conference & OTJC Statement
Following today’s (12th June) announcement by the IPCC the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC) and the national Union of Mineworkers will be hosting an open press conference at 12.00…Read more…
Global union network formed to fight back at Huhtamäki
Unions from paper products plants owned by the Finnish multi-national Huhtamäki met in Helsinki recently to establish a global trade union network. They also slammed the behaviour of the company…Read more…
UK union membership ‘broadly unchanged’ – but it pays to be in a union.
The latest trade union membership figures and statistics published by the Department of Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) in its statistical bulletin shows union membership for 2014 in the UK…Read more…
Support Phil Turner NUJ FoC Rotherham Advertiser
Phil Turner NUJ Father of the Chapel for 30 years at the Rotherham Advertiser needs your support. He was made for “compulsory redundant”. Phil is a well-respected and hard-working union…Read more…
Unions Furious As Obama Gets Approval For ‘Fast Track’
President Obama may have got his way on ‘fast track’, the legislation he needs to drive through approval of a new generation of free trade agreements but US unions have vowed to continue to fight on…Read more…
Morning Star Appoints Youngest Ever Editor
Ben Chacko has been appointed the editor of the Morning Star making him the youngest editor of the co-operatively owned socialist daily newspaper since the legendary William Rust in 1930. Ben, who…Read more…
Keith Ewing: Where Do We Go Now?
Trade unions face a crisis like no other as 5 years of Tory rule beckon. We need a new vision — and we need it now, by Keith Ewing. Shortly after the general election in 2010, I wrote in these…Read more…
Support Unite Engineers At Finnish Company Kone – On Strike Next Week
300 Unite engineering staff employed by the Finnish company Kone across the UK will be taking strike action over the next two week. Unite engineers at Kone service lifts, doors and escalators across…Read more…
Turkish Car Industry Hit By Stoppages
A wave of stoppages across the Turkish car industry is taking place as workers demand better pay and conditions – as well as demanding to join a union of their choice and elect their own union…Read more…