Category Archives: Labour Party

Greater London Association Of Trades Union Councils Public Meeting

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Tony Burke

Why The Morning Star Is Important To Trades Union Councils Work And In Opposing The Tory Cuts? Date and Time: Thursday 19th January 2012 at 7 pm Venue: Conway Hall, Red Lion Square. London WC1 Speakers include: Richard Bagley, Morning … Continue reading →

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USA: Continuing Assault On Unions

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Tony Burke

The following article is an editorial from the New York Times of January 7th, 2012 and highlights the ongoing onslaught against unions in the USA. “Along with their shameful campaign to curb the collective bargaining rights of public sector workers … Continue reading →

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Unilever unions announce two weeks of rolling strikes

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Tony Burke

Union members at Unilever across the UK are to stage more walkouts to defend their pensions over a two-week programme of rolling strikes. The Anglo-Dutch multinational has said it intends to close its final salary pension scheme. Unilever make a number of … Continue reading →

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Collective Bargaining – The Key Purpose of Trade Unions?

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Tony Burke

In this repost from an article first posted on the Liaison Committee For The Defence Of Trade Unions website, Barry Camfield argues that a key purpose of trade unions, some might say the key purpose, lays in collective bargaining. Yet collective bargaining coverage of British … Continue reading →

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Urgent! Justice For Nikos!

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Tony Burke

The Greek TUC, the GSEE, has asked unions (including the TUC in Britain)  to encourage protests about the prosecution of a group of Greek trade unionists including GENOP-DEH General Secretary Nikos Photopoulos who took direct action against a key and particularly noxious … Continue reading →

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Unite Health NISC rejects Government’s “final offer” on pensions

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Tony Burke

Unite’s Health National Industrial Sector Committee today rejected the government’s “final offer” on NHS pensions “reform”. Unite has 100,00 members in the health sector including a wide range of health professionals, pharmacists, speech therapists, technicians and laboratory assistants etc. Unite General … Continue reading →

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Robin Hood Tax gains momentum – on the continent

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Tony Burke

The German trade union movement has demanded that Germany’s richest citizens help with the countries debt crisis and tax burden which is now falling on working people. At a recent joint press conference with chancellor Angela Merkel, Michael Sommer, the president … Continue reading →

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Employment: Slight pick up in Germany and France

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Tony Burke

Employment rose slightly in Germany and France, but fell across theEU as a whole says a new report.  The Markit eurozone manufacturing PMI was 46.9, up from November’s 28-month low of 46.4. Any score under 50 represents a contraction. Activity … Continue reading →

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UK stagnation turns to risk of double-dip recession

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Tony Burke

By Michael Burke The Construction Products Association (CPA) is forecasting a ‘double-dip’ United Kingdom recession for the construction industry in 2012 and compares the latest slump to that of 10 years ago – the last Tory recession under John Major when 600,000 … Continue reading →

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No Real Hope Of Recovery in 2012

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Tony Burke

Following a bleak 2011, the forthcoming year does not appear to provide any signs of an economic revival, says Roger Jeary retiring Director of Research at Unite. “As this is my last Christmas as an employee of Unite I thought … Continue reading →

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