Jaguar Land Rover’s Castle Bromwich production line Professor David Bailey reflects on the impact of EU membership on the UK’s auto industry. The UK government likes to boast that the…Read more…
Workers Uniting Opposes Market Economy Status For China
Workers Uniting, the global union between the United Steelworkers (USW) and Unite the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, has announced its strong opposition to any move by the European Union (EU) to…Read more…
USW: New Edition Of Chemical Solutions
The United Steelworkers in the USA & Canada have issued the latest issue of their excellent newsletter for their members working in the Chemicals sector. Click on the link here to download Issue…Read more…
The government is failing teaching assistants, says UNISON
Government slammed for dropping the long-awaited teaching assistants standards
The article The government is failing teaching assistants, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald: My Plea To Save SSI Redcar
As As the Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough with many, many thousands of constituents devastated by the SSI collapse, I plead with the Government to consider my analysis. Now that the…Read more…
Workers Uniting statement on breakthrough in Colombian peace talks
Workers Uniting, the 2 million member global union formed by UNITE the union and the United Steelworkers (USW), congratulates all parties in the Colombia peace process for the efforts that led to the…Read more…
Tribune Article On Productivity
We Need an Approach to Manufacturing That Is Less ‘Arthur Daley’
Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader and Angela Eagle’s appointment as the new shadow secretary of state for Business, Innovation and Skills heralds in new political times. Up…Read more…
TUC Statement On EU Referendum & Statement to PLP by Jeremy Corbyn and Hilary Benn.
Congress notes that there will be a referendum on Britain’s continued membership of the European Union at some time in the next two years, possibly before the 2016 Congress. Over the years, Congress…Read more…
Protect The Right To Strike!
Download ‘Protect The Right To Strike’ by John Hendy QC and Prof. Keith Ewing published by CTUF and IER…Read more…
IG Metall: Statement On Refugees
The giant German metalworkers union IG Metal have issued this statement on the refugee crisis now engulfing the EU. It is certainly well worth reading and an impressive statement of solidarity with…Read more…
At risk: your BBC
It’s the time in the decade when the BBC’s Charter, granted by Parliament, comes up for review. The BBC’s enemies in government and the commercial media combine to throw at it everything…Read more…
UK car output up – and down
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…
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…
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…
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…