On March 9th US President Obama signed an executive order declaring “a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of…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…
UK Must Become Modern Manufacturing Economy Says TUC
The employers body Confederation of British Industry has set out its proposals for the first hundred days of the new Government – and it doesn’t make comfortable reading for the Tories. The…Read more…
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…
Luca Visentini To Be New European TUC Head
Italian trade unionist Luca Visentini is the proposed successor to Bernadette Ségol as General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation. This week a meeting of the ETUC’s Executive…Read more…
USW Reaches Tentative Agreement To Settle Oil Industry Strikes
The United Steelworkers (USW) has announced that it has reached a ‘tentative agreement’ on a new four-year contract with Shell Oil as a pattern agreement for the rest of the industry. 7000 oil…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…
US Oil Workers – It’s All About Safety
USW oil workers have been forced into an unfair labor practice strike. The workers are fighting to secure fair contracts that will protect the health and safety of workers and communities. The oil…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…
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…
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…
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.
GREECE: The End Of Austerity?
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…
All Out Turkish Metal Workers Strike Begins On January 29th
By Eyup Ozer, Birleşik Metal-İş Negotiations between Birleşik Metal-İş union and Metal Employers’ Association (MESS) during the “group collective bargaining agreement” (*) for 2014 – 2016 term…Read more…
Striking Barbour workers accept significantly improved offer
Unite members who have been on strike at the famous jacket and clothing manufacturer J. Barbour & Sons in Gateshead will be returning to work after accepting a significantly improved offer…Read more…