Category Archives: Blogs

Shrewsbury 24 Backbench Debate

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Tony Burke

Campaigners for the Shrewsbury 24 will urge the government to release papers which have been suppressed for almost 40 years. WHERE: House of Commons, Westminster, London WHEN: Thursday 23rd January, from 11:15 Dave Anderson, MP for Blaydon, has secured a … Continue reading →

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Why UK Companies Are Re-shoring & Observer Article On Manufacturing

Posted on December 29, 2013 by Tony Burke

The above video is a short report from Reuters on why UK companies re-shoring work back to the UK. (You many get 20 second advert at the beginning) and an article from the Observer 29th December on the need to … Continue reading →

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NYT Calls For Embargo Against Cuba To Be Lifted

Posted on December 15, 2013 by Tony Burke

In an unprecedented editorial the prestigious New York Times on December 12th called for the USA to lift the embargo against Cuba following Obama’s handshake with Raul Castro at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service. In an editorial in the name of the … Continue reading →

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UPDATED: Packaging Strike Hits Cruise Ship

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Tony Burke

UPDATEs: Listen to USW’s Joe Drexler on the strike at Crown Holdings in Canada by clicking here. Support Striking Crown Holdings Workers In Canada by sending a message to CEO at Carnival Cruises. Click here. The United Steelworkers in the … Continue reading →

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FT Video: Unions Face Upto Long Term Challenges

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Tony Burke
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‘Waiting For Recovery In Pay’ Says Labour Research

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Tony Burke

At 2.5%, union-negotiated private sector pay rises in the year to July had a lower mid-point (median) value than they did in the same period a year earlier, according to the Labour Research Department (LRD). The equivalent figure then was … Continue reading →

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Len McCluskey On Andrew Neil and Unite Statement On Sunday Times Report

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Tony Burke

Today’s (November 3rd) Sunday Times carries an extensive attack on Unite the union, apparently based on emails given to the newspaper by Ineos or its agents. The Sunday Times submitted a list of questions to Unite yesterday, in response to … Continue reading →

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Len McCluskey: “Tories dragging nation back to 70s – the 1870s”

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Tony Burke

Len McCluskey General Secretary of Unite has warned that the lessons of the banking crash have not been learned by the political elite – and that this government is taking the nation backwards to a darker time for ordinary people. … Continue reading →

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Michael Crick Skewers Grant “Michael Green” Shapps

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Tony Burke

Channel 4’s Michael Crick skewers Tory Party Chairman over his dodgy software business. The Metropolitan cops say their lawyers concluded selling of Shapps firm’s software “may constitute an offence of fraud”

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Recovery? What Recovery?

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Tony Burke

A new poll shows 4 in 5 people are not benefiting from the “economic recovery” according to the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class). The union supported think tank says a new poll in the same week as official figures show … Continue reading →

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