Category Archives: European Trade Unions

Luca Visentini To Be New European TUC Head

Posted on March 14, 2015 by Tony Burke

Italian trade unionist Luca Visentini is the proposed successor to Bernadette Ségol as General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation. This week a meeting of the ETUC’s Executive Committee voted the 46 year old current Confederal Secretary of the ETUC … Continue reading →

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GREECE: The End Of Austerity?

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Tony Burke
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Why I’m Boycotting Beer In Cans

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Tony Burke

By Marty Warren is United Steelworkers Director for Ontario and Atlantic Canada, representing 74,000 working people. With all the publicity focused on the Beer Store in recent weeks, there is another beer story with profound implications that has received little media … Continue reading →

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The Wapping Dispute with Greg Neale and Nicholas Jones

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Tony Burke

A look back on the Wapping Dispute with Greg Neale and Nicholas Jones on 20th January. The great dispute at News International newspapers in 1986-87 was one of the most dramatic industrial affairs of the last century and a turning point … Continue reading →

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TUC and DGB: Workplace democracy is essential to decent work – the 13th British-German Trade Union Forum

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Tony Burke

A meeting of British – German Trade Union Forum took place in London on the 8th and 9th of December. It was the 13th time that this forum, jointly organised by the TUC and the DGB as well as the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation and the … Continue reading →

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Updated: 125,000 Take Part In Brussels Demo In Lead Up To General Strike.

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Tony Burke

Ahead of a General Strike called for December 15th, 125,000 workers and their supporters took to the streets of Brussels today (November 6th) to demonstrate against austerity policies being imposed by the Belgium government. The police estimated the march as … Continue reading →

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Workers Uniting condemns EU-Canada trade agreement

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Tony Burke

Steelworkers, Unite join to reject anti-democratic, anti-worker proposals Workers Uniting, the global union of the United Steelworkers (USW) in North America and Unite the union in the UK and Ireland, condemns the Canada and European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and … Continue reading →

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Volkswagen Union Reps Back UAW In Tennessee

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Tony Burke

Volkswagen global works council is backing renewed efforts by the United Auto Workers in the United States to secure union recognition for US workers at the German car makers Chatanooga, Tennessee plant. In a statement this week Germany’s giant IG Metall union, … Continue reading →

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ETUC Warns EU Risks Losing Support Of Europeans

Posted on August 31, 2014 by Tony Burke

The European TUC has warned EU leaders that the EU needs to tackle unemployment or risk losing the support of the European people. Speaking at the ‘Conférence des Ambassadeurs’ in Paris with Laurent Fabius the French Foreign Minister and Walter … Continue reading →

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Swaziland PM’s Threat Against Union Leader

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Tony Burke

What would we do if David Cameron threatened at Prime Minister’s Question Time to strangle the TUC’s Frances O’Grady?  That’s what happened in Swaziland last week. Facing pressure from MPs about the suspension of benefits from the USA under the African … Continue reading →

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