A new report on the automation of work in the public sector overlooks the threat to jobs, the Unite union warned yesterday. Unite said that Artificial Intelligence & Public Standards, a…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…
Automation And Closures Are Challenges – But Failure Does Not Have To Be Inevitable
By Sharon Graham, Executive Officer of Unite the Union. Morning Star, July 18th 2019 Sharon Graham explains how rebuilding the shop stewards’ movement will help develop meaningful industrial power…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…
Why You Should Be A Trade Unionist
Drawing on anecdotes from his own long involvement in the labour movement, McCluskey looks at the history of the trade unions, what they do and how they give a voice to working people, as democratic…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…
Thirteen unions urge UK government to condemn Turkey’s invasion of Syria – and act to avert ethnic cleansing and potential genocide
Trade unions representing millions of UK workers and their communities have demanded that prime minister Boris Johnson deploy the UK’s influence to prevent a humanitarian disaster as a result of the…Read more…
UK auto makers prepare to shut down again fearing No Deal Brexit disruption
By Professor David Bailey, Professor of Business Economics at Birmingham Business School at University of Birmingham, Visiting Professor at Centre for Brexit Studies and Senior Fellow at UK in a…Read more…
UK Unions Warn: ‘This Is A No Deal Coup’
”The claim that the government is considering proroguing parliament in September in order to stop MPs debating Brexit is entirely false.’’ Government statement to the Observer newspaper.’…Read more…
Brazil Solidarity Initiative Statement : Bolsonaro & The Destruction Of The Amazon
We condemn Bolsonaro’s destructive plans for the Amazon, and the huge increase in illegal logging and mining since his inauguration. At the time of the rise of the far-right in Brazil, Bolsonaro’s…Read more…
Great cartoon from USA – 10 Reasons Why We Are Against Unions
Long Read: Defeating Boris Johnson Means Not Underestimating Him
By Simon Fletcher and republished with permission Simon Fletcher is a left wing political strategist and campaigner who has held senior positions working for socialist politicians including the Mayor…Read more…
This Is What Democracy Looks Like Event
The Electoral Reform Society and Politics for the Many are launching a major conference on the 31st August in Manchester to inspire the next generation of trade union campaigners for a fuller…Read more…
Brexit: The WTO option would devastate jobs and tear up our rights
By Rosa Crawford First published by the TUC, May 16th Trading with the EU only on the WTO’s terms would have serious repercussions for the economy, public services and the Good Friday…Read more…
Politcal prisoner Adullah Ocalan meets his lawyers
The Turkish-imprisoned political prisoner and founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, received a visit by his lawyers on May 2nd, for the first time since 2011, a…Read more…
Keep Trump’s Hands Off Latin America
VSC E-UPDATE, MARCH 2019. ► Standing up to Trump and May’s interventions in – and hypocrisy on – Latin America ► 1. Help us get to 4,000 signatories our petition against…Read more…
Honda: Stay In The UK #SaveHondaSwindon
To: Honda president and CEO Takahiro Hachigo Please see this important message and petition from Honda workers in Swindon, whose jobs are at risk. They need your support. Sign the petition here We…Read more…
Len McCluskey On Channel 4 News
Christmas Strike Announced At Cumbrian Newspapers
Journalists working for Newsquest-owned titles in Carlisle, Whitehaven and Workington have agreed to take strike action on Thursday 20 December over poor pay. Newsquest has made more than a 100…Read more…
Trade Unions Are Winning Victories In Mexico
In a sign that things are changing for trade unions in Mexico following the election of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) the independent Mexican mining and metalworkers’ union Los Mineros…Read more…