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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
The do-nothing government
With a government with little idea of how to steer UK manufacturing, are we facing industry stagnation? By Amanda Campbell, Editor, Unite magazine uniteWORKS It was a gloomy start to 2012 for the government – manufacturing figures for the last quarter … 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
Remploy closures are “a despicable act”
The decision yesterday to all but shut down Remploy as a state run company and an employer which provides employment for disabled people shows that the ConDem Government will stoop to any level no matter how low. As Len McCluskey … 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
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
ETUC Action Day – February 29th
On the eve of the European Summit of 1st and 2nd March, dominated by the themes of austerity and budgetary discipline, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) will send a clear message to the EU leaders: this imposed austerity is going to … Continue reading