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…
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…
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…
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…
ILO issues global inequality warning
The warnings and predictions just keep on coming. Following the World Bank statement earlier this year that the rise in Global Inequality is partly due to the decline of trade unions, the…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…
Workplace Issues: taking up the issues with the new government
Start: 10/06/2015 09:30
End: 10/06/2015 15:25
Timezone: Europe/London
Start: 10/06/2015 09:30
End: 10/06/2015 15:25
Timezone: Europe/London
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Half a work manifesto is better than none
On Monday Labour launches its 2015 General Election manifesto but the ‘work manifesto’ A Better Plan for Britain’s Workplaces published on 1st April, provides an early insight into the party’s…Read more…
Labour’s Manifesto For Britain’s Workplaces
Here is an edited version of Labour’s ‘A Better Plan For Britain’s Workplaces’, produced by Unite. The central task for the next Labour government is to build an economy that creates better and more…Read more…
We’re Not Loving It – Protest At McDonalds, London
Unite London hotel and hospitality workers are protesting against Fast Food giant McDonalds on the morning of April 15th – the international day of action in solidarity with fast food workers…Read more…
What Is Productivity?
CLASS Briefing: Productivity There has been increasing media coverage about the UK’s growing ‘productivity gap’ in the last few weeks, but why is it important? The shaky and unsustainable return to…Read more…
History & Policy Group – Whatever Happened To Collective Bargaining?
Unite Analysis Of Osborne’s Last Budget
By the Unite Political Department To call George Osborne’s performance, hopefully for the last time, at the Commons’ despatch box a budget for the nation is stretching credulity to its limits. With…Read more…
Why Britain badly needs more women engineers and scientists
By Siobhan Endean, Unite National Officer for Equalities This week the UKs biggest trade union, Unite, is launching its guide to encourage more young women to take up skilled apprenticeships in…Read more…
Blacklisted – The Secret War Between Big Business & Union Activists
‘Blacklisted – The Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists’ by Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlin tells the story of the illegal strategies that transnational construction…Read more…
International Unions Support Locked Out Glencore Workers.
One Hundred USW members and allies from trade unions from Texas and around the world visited the Houston offices of multinational corporation Glencore on February 26th to present the company with a…Read more…
Election 2015 – What’s at stake?
CLASS, the labour movement think tank, has published the first in a series of general election guides. Election 2015: What’s at stake for work, pay and unions?
This timely…Read more…
USW, Allies In Europe United In Fight For Safety At Oil Refineries
A delegation of striking oil refinery workers from the United Steelworkers (USW) will bring their campaign for a safer oil industry to Europe this week, meeting with allies from labor unions in the…Read more…
MG Rover workers still owed a payout years after this sorry saga
MG Rover workers leaving Longbridge in 2005 after learning of the collapse of the carmaker The Phoenix Four should still do the right thing. By directing the proceeds of the Deloitte fine to former…Read more…