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MMP workers in Liverpool, Saturday. Meet them and protest at the on-going lock out.
When: Saturday, 23rd March, 2012 at 11.00 am Where: Church Street (opposite Primark), Liverpool City Centre L1 Tony the Tiger joins locked out MMP workers call for roar of support from Liverpool shoppers MMP workers, who make packaging that holds some of the … Continue reading
Cameron still doesn’t get the need for an interventionist manufacturing strategy
Last week’s manufacturing survey conducted by the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) and business advisors BDO LLP provided a small chink of light in the gloomy tunnel that faces the UK in turning round the economy. The coalition’s oft stated ambition to rebalance the economy … Continue reading
Robin Hood Tax – URGENT: Send message to EU Finance Ministers!
This just in from Owen Tudor at the TUC: EU finance ministers meet on Tuesday and the Danish Presidency has agreed to put the EU proposal for a Financial Transactions Tax on the agenda. We need people to email finance … Continue reading
The UK’s Industrial Policy – (or complete lack of one) to be discussed this week.
In recent weeks there has been a growing debate on the inherent lack of an industrial and manufacturing policy in the UK. On Tuesday the EEF (the main engineering and manufacturing employers federation) will be holding a Manufacturing Conference in … Continue reading
More Union Busting In Mexico by PKC
By Ben Davis of the United Steelworkers. In the early 1990s, the multi national metals company Alcoa began sourcing from Arneses y Accesorios de Mexico, S.A. de C.V, a maquiladora producing wire harnesses for the North American auto industry in … Continue reading
Honda union official arrested for distributing leaflets outside of auto plant
This article was sent to Power In A Union by Ben Davis of the United Steelworkers. This is a small example of what is happening in Mexico where union busting is now rampant. The Mexican government and employers stand accused … Continue reading
Is the government finally ‘getting it’ on industrial policy?
By Tony Burke, assistant general secretary of Unite and Tim Page, senior policy officer at the TUC “Over the last eighteen months or so the coalition government has been really straining every sinew to seek to rebalance the British economy and put manufacturing at its … Continue reading
What Len McCluskey actually said!
With all the press and media coverage (not to mention near hysteria) of what Len McCluskey said about the Olympics and the faux outrage from the Tories, Lib Dems, Ed Miliband and Harriet Harman (and others who should know better), … Continue reading