Category Archives: Employment Rights

Argos Agency Workers Protest Against Swedish Derogation

Agency workers at Argos in Burton on Trent, Staffordshire demonstrated on 22nd  December against ‘pay apartheid’ which sees their pay packets up to £120-a-week lighter than their full-time colleagues. Workers employed by Adecco, held whistle-blowing demonstration at the Argos site … Continue reading

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Judge rules Boxing Day tube strike to go ahead

The Boxing Day strike by London Underground (LU) drivers will go ahead after a hight court judge refused to halt the walkouts. London Underground argued that the Aslef the tube train drivers’ union broke the law by balloting employees who … Continue reading

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Union News Interview with John Hendy QC on Employment Rights

The excellent website UnionNews interviews John Hendy QC, barrister to the trade union movement, who has just received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Liberty “in recognition of a career dedicated to defending and upholding the rights of workers and trade … Continue reading

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Public Service Pensions: Unite Update on Government’s ‘False Timetables and ‘Final Offers’

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LCDTU launches new website

The Liaison Committee For The Defence Of Trade Unions has launched a re-vamped website and it can now be found by clicking here. The LCDTU blogspot will remain up until the end of January. LCDTU Secretary Barry Camfield has been … Continue reading

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Possible imprisonment of Greek union officials

The following is a statement by the International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples (ILC). Stop the prosecution of Nikos Photopoulos and his comrades from the GENOP-DEH union immediately. We have just been informed by representatives of the Greek public power … Continue reading

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Unite’s UnionTV at Unilever Strike, Port Sunlight

On 9th December Unilever workers across the UK took part in the first ever national strike at the company. Martin Scanlon of Unite’s Union TV went to Unilever’s home of research and development in Port Sunlight to hear from workers … Continue reading

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AWU’s Paul Howes on the attacks on trade unions in Fiji

The following is an update on the current situation in Fiji where trade unions are being repressed by the government. It was sent to us by Paul Howes, who is the National Secretary of the Australian Workers Union. The fifth … Continue reading

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Unite launches community membership

Unite has taken the bold and innovative step of launching a new membership scheme to ensure those pushed to the margins of society can benefit from collective trade union power. Unite’s new community membership will offer the unemployed, students and all those … Continue reading

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A new strategy to help save UK manufacturing

Unite has launched a new strategy to help save UK manufacturing called ’2020 Vision – Unite Strategy For Manufacturing’, the policy argues a powerful case on how to revive and rebuild the UK’s manufacturing sector over the remainder of the decade. The … Continue reading

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