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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
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
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
UK unemployment to rocket by 100,000 – Unemployment to be ‘permanent feature’
The Institute For Public Policy Research (IPPR) is predicting that unemployment will rocket by 100,000 before the end of the summer 2012. The IPPR says it could be 18 months before the UK jobless total falls. The North-west and Eastern … Continue reading
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The Budget: Comment by Len McCluskey
The much-leaked 2012 Budget will be remembered for two own-goals by George Osborne: taxing the elderly and lining the pockets of the wealthy by cutting the top rate of income tax to 45p in the pound. When the next General … Continue reading
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Unite’s blueprint for industrial renewal
By Tony Patey One would have thought that with all the business buddies the Tories have got, the government would be well clued up on manufacturing. But apparently not. And the Labour Party is little better. So Britain’s biggest union … Continue reading
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Channel 4 Fact Check – Do Oil Tanker Drivers Earn £45k?
The claim “Tanker drivers are paid on average £45,000 a year – double that of a regular haulage driver.” Government department DECC press release, 26th March 2012 The background Wednesday’s talks to avoid a fuel tanker strike will bring to a head a dispute … Continue reading
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
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