Category Archives: Employment Rights

Rally – May 5th – The Life & Times Of Bert Ramelson

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Locked out and sacked MMP workers demonstrate outside Austrian Embassy

Locked out and sacked UK workers from Austrian multi-national packaging firm MMP (Mayr-Melnhof Packaging) in Liverpool, along with breakfast cereal character effigies – Tony the Tiger, Coco Monkey and Cornelius Rooster – bring their fight to the Austrian Embassy in … Continue reading

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US unions join plan to train 10,000 Occupy Protestors

The Occupy Movement has proved to be a 21st century phenomenon. As each month goes by they have become more sophisticated, radicalising young people, trade unioinists and community groups – no where more so than in the USA.  Now a … Continue reading

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MMP faces legal action by Unite

Cereal workers being starved of legal entitlements Unite is to take legal action against Austrian owned Mayr-Melnhof Packaging (MMP) over the unlawful dismissal of its workforce and closure of the site in Bootle, Liverpool. The workers make packaging for some … Continue reading

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A date for your diary…..April 16th – fighting back against the ConDem’s attack on workers rights!

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Cash for policies anyone? Beecroft, Wonga, millionaire Tory donors and slasher Osborne

The “cash for lunches” scandal has shone further light on a government report which proposed that employers be allowed to sack workers at will – if the employer thought they were unproductive or “coasting”. Adrian Beecroft produced his report last … Continue reading

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The true story of why oil tanker drivers have voted for industrial action.

While the media went to town on petrol shortages, the use of the armed forces to drive tankers, distortion of the facts of the case, the real reasons why Unite members voted to take industrial action got scant coverage. Contarary … Continue reading

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MMP – Greeeeat success at Liverpool event!

Locked out workers at MMP in Bootle were out in Liverpool City Centre today (Saturday) gathering growing support from ordinary people and families in their campaign to get the Austrian multi national packaging company to end the lock out of … Continue reading

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Call for Action: Cammell Laird occupation 1984

In May 1984 it was proposed to make half the workforce redundant at Cammel Laird’s shipyard on Merseyside, calling into question the future viability of the yard.  In response to compulsory redundancies the workers occupied the yard with 70 still … Continue reading

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EU Employment Rights: Professor Keith Ewing on “Monti 11”

Keith Ewing says there “is nothing of merit” in the Monti 11 Regulation In this latest Briefing from IER, Keith Ewing argues that the first Draft Monti 11 Regulation “reflects a failure to understand the serious implications of the Viking and Laval … Continue reading

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