Book Review: Matt Foot & Morag Livingstone – Charged: how the police try to suppress protest By Adrian Weir The odious current Home Secretary, Priti Patel, is widely despised and derided…Read more…
MESSAGE FROM SHARON GRAHAM: For Peace & Solidarity In Ukraine – Trade Union Appeal
Dear Colleagues, As the military aggression against an independent country unfolds at an alarming pace there is overwhelming support being expressed throughout Unite to support the people of Ukraine….Read more…
The Metaverse is workplace and a labour issue
By VALERIO DE STEFANO, ANTONIO ALOISI and NICOLA COUNTOURIS First published at https://socialeurope.eu on 1st February 2022 The Metaverse has been talked about only in terms of gee-whiz technologies…Read more…
Interview: TUC’s Frances O’Grady On Omicron, Furlough, Wages, Pay & Internationalism
This is a long read – but we are am sure that for many readers the issues under discussion are of sufficient interest to warrant the length. When I spoke this week to Frances O’Grady, the leader of…Read more…
Interview: TUC’s Frances O’Grady On Omicron, Furlough, Wages, Pay & Internationalism
This is a long read – but we are am sure that for many readers the issues under discussion are of sufficient interest to warrant the length. When I spoke this week to Frances O’Grady, the leader of…Read more…
May Day Statement From EU Unions
” It is only when the sky is dark that we can see the stars .” Long live the 1st May This sentence, pronounced a few decades ago by Martin Luther King, has not aged a bit. We chose to…Read more…
McCluskey To Government: Publish Impact Of Bad Bosses Threat To UK Workers
Len McCluskey of Unite, is demanding that the government discloses the full impact of any roll-back of workers’ rights on the country’s millions of women, vulnerable and minority workers. Unite…Read more…
WAPPING – ‘THE WORKERS STORY’
At last the film is now available online and on DVD! Chris Reeves of Platform Films has produced a marvellous film which has taken several years to complete as Chris is heavily engaged in making and…Read more…
ETUC On EU-UK Brexit Agreement
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…
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…
Urgent Appeal To Help War Graves Workers
Solidarity means helping each other out which is why your support for Unite members in industrial struggle is needed. Workers who maintain and care for our commonwealth war graves in France and…Read more…
Abdullah Öcalan: My Solution for Turkey, Syria, and the Kurds
By Abdullah Öcalan For over two decades, Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan has been held in the Turkish prison on İmralı Island. In this op-ed for Jacobin, he calls for a “democratic nation project”…Read more…
Unite video demolishes BA’s ‘fire & rehire’ claims
A Unite video explaining BA’s finances ‘demolishes’ the airline’s claim that it must fire its workforce and rehire those that survive on inferior contracts. The in-depth analysis of British…Read more…
Union’s letter to Johnson: No return to work until we feel safe
Employers who fail to prioritise the wellbeing of their staff when they return to work should be held to account As the country debates how and when to get the economy up and running, it would be…Read more…
UK auto industry shuts down: government needs to step in to support workers, and fast, as Coronavirus hits
By Professor David Bailey, is Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe, Professor of Business Economics at the Birmingham Business School and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Brexit Studies…Read more…
Yorkshire Premiere of ‘Wapping – The Workers Story’
The Yorkshire premiere of the film “Wapping – the Workers’ Story” – see flyer below. Although the event is free, space is limited, so please do book by clicking here.Read more…
Trade Agreements Will Impact On Wages And Working Conditions
By Sharon Graham, Unite Executive Officer, January 31st, 2020 : The ‘cost of living crisis’ is showing no sign of coming to an end. Only now, over ten years after the financial crisis are wages in…Read more…
Assessing UK Trade Policy Readiness
The UK government continues to paint a ‘rosy and optimistic’ picture for future trade deals with EU, USA, TPP, and countries like New Zealand, Australia and Japan and relying on media…Read more…
Labour Will Be On The Side Of Workers – Laura Pidcock MP
By Laura Pidcock Shadow Secretary of State for Employment Rights “So many people’s working lives are dominated by low pay, insecurity and powerlessness. It is a sign of this broken system that many…Read more…
For A Europe With A Future – by Wolfgang Lemb
Excellent book edited by my comrade Wolfgang Lemb of the IG Metall trade union in Germany. Available on some book sellers sites. “One thing is increasingly obvious since the European Elections…Read more…