27 March 2018
By Alex Just, employment and trade union law expert
Friday’s admission by the Metropolitan Police that special branch officers colluded in the blacklisting of construction workers…Read more…
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27 March 2018
By Alex Just, employment and trade union law expert
Friday’s admission by the Metropolitan Police that special branch officers colluded in the blacklisting of construction workers…Read more…
The taskforce that has been to set up to safeguard manufacturing and employment at Suffolk-based Delphi Diesel Systems has been urged to include Unite in its planning process. Unite has raised…Read more…
Unite members employed by Dial-a-ride will begin a 48-hour stoppage from just past midnight tomorrow (March 28) in a dispute over the withdrawal of rest days and the imposition of new rosters. …Read more…
Recommendations by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) including outlawing non-disclosure agreements being implemented to prevent workers complaining of sexual harassment unless initiated…Read more…
Police blacklisting admission could lead to fresh legal action 23 March 2018 Source: Unite the union Police blacklisting admission could lead to fresh legal action Unite, the UK’s largest union, is…Read more…
Business secretary Greg Clark today (March 27) stepped in over the GKN takeover bid from Melrose, just 48 hours before investors are to vote on the iconic engineering firm’s future. Investors…Read more…
Another blow was struck against the gig economy yesterday (March 26) when delivery firm DPD announced it will be offering its 5,000 self-employed drivers holiday and sick pay after one of its…Read more…
National Shop Stewards Network bulletin says: The suspension of two of the Wilmington waste recycling workers, who are members of Unison after they returned to work following a successful…Read more…
23 March 2018 Britain’s largest union, Unite accused Melrose of asking GKN shareholders to take ‘a leap in the dark into a sea of uncertainty’ after it lifted a self-imposed deadline for approval of…Read more…
Cat shares this latest news from Save Our Schools Isle of Wight. Ed A Save Our Schools ‘banner drop’ took place at St Thomas of Canterbury Primary School in Carisbrooke on Thursday 22nd March. It was…Read more…
Although no offer has been tabled, UNISON described the discussions as “constructive” and all parties have said they intend to make progress across all elements of the claim at the next meeting.
The…Read more…
Off message, I had my first day on Sunday off from politics and the union for a long time. I downloaded this 8.5 mile circular route from the free website Essexwalks.com and we drove to Clavering near Bishop Stortford in around 45 minutes from Eas…Read more…
Amazon’s high-tech sheen hides corruption and abusive labour practicesRead more…
Unite’s campaign to keep production of British passports in Britain was ramped up today as Labour MP Liz Twist presented an urgent question in the House of Commons this afternoon (March 26) on the…Read more…
As GKN investors face a vote on Thursday (March 29) on whether to accept a predatory takeover bid from ‘turnaround specialist’ Melrose, Unite has again urged shareholders to reject the bid and…Read more…
Unite has ridiculed the “limp excuses” offered by a Tory MP for failing to engage with a task force set up in his constituency to safeguard local manufacturing jobs. The South Suffolk task…Read more…
This week will be a defining one for British business. On Thursday we will find out if the centuries old engineering giant GKN will be the latest victim of our inadequate shareholder laws. …Read more…
Automatic enrolment has quite rightly be hailed as a success but urgent action needs to be taken to bring more low earners into the pensions system and ensure those who are auto-enrolled are building…Read more…
Photo collage of a busy weekend for West Ham Labour. Our MP Lyn Brown & Newham Labour Mayoral candidate, Rokhsana Fiaz, were out with local activists across West Ham talking to residents about any concerns and issues. We held stalls and sent door k…Read more…
Fight for Security in Retirement! – K.C. Adams – Private enterprise is incompatible with the functioning of the basic sectors of the modern socialized economy The crisis of pensions…Read more…