The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) believes there is no Brexit that will benefit working people. In the circumstances, we welcome the European Union’s efforts to stop no-deal, guarantee…Read more…
Review: The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences, by John Marks
First published more than 40 years ago, this book tells the unbelievable story of the CIA’s experiments with mind control. Some of these even pre-date the founding of the CIA itself. Its…Read more…
UK-EU Brexit Agreement: “A Thin Deal” Says David Bailey
Blog by Professor David Bailey Birmingham Business School That a trade deal has been at been agreed at the last minute between the UK and EU comes as a huge relief for manufacturing sectors like…Read more…
Video of the year – ‘They’ve left us with no choice’
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a film from the first day of strike action at the Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick site in November….Read more…
‘Levelling up’ pay?
How do you get the public on board with policies that no one really supports? Easy – divide and rule, a signature and all-too predictable strategy right out of the Tory government’s playbook….Read more…
“A Promised Land” by Barack Obama
I listened to the final episode of Barack Obama reading from his first term Presidential memoirs, “A Promised Land” today on my smart phone and headphones while trying to walk off some Christmas cheer.
There are ten 15 minute abridged extr…Read more…
TUC on EU-UK Brexit Deal “Its better than nothing, but not by much”.
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said: “This deal is better than nothing, but not by much. It won’t protect jobs and puts hard-won workers’ rights on the line. As we come out of the pandemic,…Read more…
Unite on UK-EU Brexit Deal – Manufacturing.
Commenting on the UK – EU trade deal Unite said the UKs manufacturing workers will be relieved ‘but government must not claim job done Steve Turner, assistant general secretary said: “The…Read more…
KCK statement on the arrest of MP Leyla Güven
The arrest of Leyla Güvenexposes the reality of the Turkish State Tens of MPs and mayors, hundreds of leading HDP members and thousands of democratic politicians find themselves imprisoned in Turkey….Read more…
‘A vital victory for the entire labour movement’
The right to picket is such a fundamental one that it is even protected in the Human Rights Act – it sits right alongside others such as the right to life and a fair trial. It is the most powerful…Read more…
Video of the year – Time for a new deal
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature our May Day film, where Unite general secretary Len McCluskey called for a new deal for…Read more…
PLOUGH MONDAY – (first Monday after the feast of the Epiphany)
Plough Monday – 11th January 2021
Held on the first Monday after the feast of the EpiphanyThe day traditionally saw the resumption of agricultural work after the Christmas period in Northern Counties and the East of EnglandA light was kept burnin…Read more…
‘Come fly with me’?
At the beginning of this year, no one could have foretold how the aviation industry in the UK – a huge contributor to the economy, supporting nearly 1m jobs – would have so suddenly been brought to…Read more…
Video of the year – ‘My one wish this Christmas…’
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today we feature a film promoting Unite Community’s Universal Credit online day of action earlier this month,…Read more…
Video of the year – Let’s keep our industry flying
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a Unite film from August about the aviation industry and what the union is calling on the…Read more…
Unite’s ‘food warriors’
It is true to say that this Christmas certainly won’t be like any other – but for all the wrong reasons. We see the adverts every day. While the shiny families enjoy idealised Christmas Days, and the…Read more…
Nadolig Llawen: Happy Christmas!
Hat tip my favourite Welsh artist, Kyffin Williams and his painting “The Gathering” and in a 2021 post Covid world (fingers and toes) I hope to climb to the top of this same mountain Glyder Fach in Snowdonia.
Strike Map – making it easier to support workers in struggle
As an Xmas present to regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris Blogger) here is a link to an excellent new site – Strike Map.
This is an excellent initiative to collate in one place online information, submitted by workers, on strike action being ta…Read more…
Communist Christmas
Its Christmas Eve! Hat tip StroppyRead more…
Any deal better than the catastrophe of no deal
Working people and public services still face huge uncertainty
The article Any deal better than the catastrophe of no deal first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…