The following is an open and public letter from members of Unite’s United Left grouping to members of the Socialist Party who are standing candidates against Labour candidates in marginal…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…
US Oil Strike – More Refineries Walk Out
According to reports on the negotiation front, it is being reported that “it’s been a quiet week for striking oil workers and energy executives”. The United Steelworkers added three more…Read more…
Freedom of Speech, so long as you keep shtum?
“FREEDOM OF SPEECH” has been much talked about lately, in the wake of the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ killings and with regard to such slightly less serious matters as the enthusiasm with which some groups of…Read more…
“I am proud to be a trade unionist, to be a member of the Labour Party and to be a socialist”
Well said Dennis.Read more…
LATEST: Steelworkers – Oil Strike Expands : 7,000 Workers On Strike
The United Steelworkers (USW) announced that it will expand its unfair labour practice strike (ULP) by launching a work stoppage at midnight at the Motiva Enterprises refinery in Port Arthur, Texas….Read more…
Such treatment of staff is a National Disgrace
NATIONAL GALLERY, January 19. Two thirds of staff told jobs will be privatised.
FINE art can be a profitable business, hoarded as private wealth, or patronised for prestige by big business,…Read more…
USW Statement On “Lack of Progress” In Oil Strike Talks.
Day 10: There was little progress as bargaining with the industry resumed. When talks recessed last week the industry told the USW bargaining committee that they would be bringing one of their…Read more…
US Oil Strikes Latest: Stoppages Spread To BP
The United Steelworkers (USW) who represent thousands of striking oil refinery workers have said that workers at BP Refineries will be hit by strikes today (Sunday) in the next wave of industrial…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…
Whatever Happened To Collective Bargaining?
Glencore: EDM From Ian Lavery MP
Early day motion on Glencore tabled in UK House of Commons Sign EDM 764 to support Glencore workers Glencore, the global mining company, claims to respect human rights, community culture, collective…Read more…
Extract from Len McCluskey’s Speech To Unite Officers and Organisers, Birmingham, February 2nd.
Workers walk out at oil refineries across USA
Members of the United Steelworkers who work in oil refineries and chemical plants have walked out at nine sites across the USA – beginning strikes aimed at putting pressure oil companies to…Read more…
What the Frack’s Going On?
WHAT is going on about “fracking”? Last week MPs overwhelmingly rejected a bid to impose a moratorium, suspending fracking for shale gas, although the government agreed to Labour proposals for…Read more…
New BMW Facility Opens With 70 Saved Teamsters Jobs
BMW opened a brand new distribution facility near the old one where Teamsters Local 495 fought to save 70 members’ jobs a couple of years ago — and won. For a while it looked as if BMW was…Read more…
Why I’m Boycotting Beer In Cans
By Marty Warren is United Steelworkers Director for Ontario and Atlantic Canada, representing 74,000 working people. With all the publicity focused on the Beer Store in recent weeks, there is another…Read more…
Morning Star Hiring Campaigns Manager
Heritage and Security
SO OFTEN THE BACKDROP for protests, like last September’s march for the NHS, the National Gallery, one of Britain’s biggest tourist attractions, is the centre of a struggle for jobs and a living…Read more…
Union-busting at the heart of this government?
We’ve long been used to the hostility towards trade unions exhibited by some of the more excitable elements on the fringes of the Tory right. From Aiden Burley and the Trade Union Reform Campaign to…Read more…