Category Archives: Employment Rights

Unite The Union : About Trade Unions by Jamie-Max Caldwell

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The Return Of ‘What Has Europe Ever Done For Us….’

Ed Miliband is to make a positive statement at the CBI Conference today in favour of remaining in the EU – even if he qualifies continuing membership as “for now”. David Cameron is being pushed further to the right by … Continue reading

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Speak out now or risk losing your voice in Whitehall

The government has brought in new guidance allowing ministers to provide just two weeks to consult the public on their proposals rather than the usual 12 weeks. Without enough time to gather strong evidence and write a clear and considered … Continue reading

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Support USW & Palermo Pizza Workers In Their Fight For Union Rights

The Palermo Pizza Workers Union (affiliated to the United Steelworkers in the USA) who are organising Palermo’s Pizza workers have been on strike for more than five months fighting for, union rights, a voice at work and a safer workplace. … Continue reading

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Family friendly rights no substitute for workers’ rights

By Roger Jeary Nick Clegg has proudly announced the government will make “improvements” to parental leave, allowing fathers to share mothers’ maternity leave. But is this as good a deal as the Deputy Prime Minister wishes to make out? It’s … Continue reading

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Fighting Abolition Of The Agricultural Wages Board

On the day the ludicrously short and inadequate consultation on the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board ended, rural workers protested at Westminster. They were calling on the government to abandon plans which will plunge 154,000 rural workers in to … Continue reading

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London launch of ‘Memoirs Of A Militant’

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Beecroft by the backdoor

The government’s attempts to smuggle more of the discredited Beecroft report which proposed, among other things, to remove unfair dismissal rights to make it easier to sack workers, has been rumbled not only by unions but by one of the country’s top … Continue reading

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Where costs are king scant concern is given to the impact on rural life

By Diana Holland, Unite Assistant General Secretary What is this government’s problem with the countryside?  It tried and failed to sell off the forests and kill off badgers. It’s thrashing around as historic ash trees die. They don’t like humans much … Continue reading

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Sign the Cammell Laird e-petition

Former shipyard workers have stepped up their pressure on the Government for compensation over events which happened in 1984. Thirty-seven Birkenhead shipyard workers were jailed for occupying rigs at the Cammell Laird shipyard in an effort to stop compulsory redundancies … Continue reading

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