Category Archives: Employment Rights

The DGB’s Four Point Plan For Europe

The German equivalent of the British TUC, the DGB has recently published a four point plan for a change of course in Europe as an alternative to the Eurozone crisis. It is certainly worth reading. Download a copy here.

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London 2012: The Rio Tinto saga continues

Following the recent demonstration at the Rio Tinto AGM in London, reported by Left Foot Forward last week, the United Steelworkers in Canada have lodged a formal complaint to the London Olympics Organising Committee about the activities of the extraction … Continue reading

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Murdoch at Leveson Inquiry : A sharper view

The following blog was sent in by Ann Field, who has been curating the 25th Anniversary of the News International Dispute Exhibition. Ann, a former senior print union official says: “For a sharper view about Murdoch’s appearance at the Leveson … Continue reading

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Unite IT workers brave rain to protest at forced redundancies

Sent in to PIAU by Unite CSC workplace rep Paul Halliwell. Read Paul’s report and see more photos from the demonstration’s here. Unite members across the country working for IT services giant Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) today braved the pouring … Continue reading

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Oil Tanker Dispute – Press Conference Video

Breaking: Unite’s Diana Holland press conference on Oil Tanker Drivers Dispute. Tanker drivers employed by national fuel distribution companies have today (Wednesday, 18th April) overwhelmingly rejected proposals tabled following six days of talks at ACAS.Unite has said it will be … Continue reading

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Locked Out Workers Launch International Campaign To Get Rio Tinto ‘Off The Olympic Podium’

The United Steelworkers (USW), is calling for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to drop multinational resource firm Rio Tinto as an official supplier of the 2012 London Games, because the company’s treatment of its own workers does not live up … Continue reading

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Aussie Toyota sackings – “primitve and appalling”

The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) says Toyota Australia’s handling of the sacking of 350 employees from its Altona production plant in Melbourne has set the relationship between the two organisations back decades. Around 250-270 Toyota Australia employees were handed … Continue reading

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Fight for workers’ rights tops agenda – LCDTU meeting Monday, April 16th

The Liaison Committee For The Defence of Trade Unions is holding a public meeting tonight,  Monday, April 16th. Speakers will be focusing on employment rights in Britain as well as in Europe and internationally, and how we fight back against … Continue reading

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Locked out Unite MMP members @ Grand National

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Companies using loopholes to avoid equal pay for agency workers

Employers are increasingly exploiting loopholes in the the new agency workers regulations, to dodge paying agency and temporary workers equal pay with permanent employees a new report suggests. Two thirds of employers are exploiting loopholes according to employment lawyers Eversheds. The Agency … Continue reading

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