Category Archives: Solidarity

Save Our Black Cabs – Video from todays event in London to save LTI the makers of the iconic London Black Cab

Please feel free to add this to your site, Facebook it, Tweet it – help save LTI the makers of the iconic London Black Cab.

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Unite The Union : About Trade Unions by Jamie-Max Caldwell

Feel free to paste this excellent video on your website and Facebook and Tweet your chumrades about this!

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Unite Campaign To Save LTI – Makers Of the Iconic London Black Cab

Sacked workers from the Coventry black cab maker Manganese Bronze will take to the streets of Coventry on 17th November with a black cab to build public support for Unite’s campaign to ‘Save our black cabs’. Supported by Unite, Unite … Continue reading

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Support USW & Palermo Pizza Workers In Their Fight For Union Rights

The Palermo Pizza Workers Union (affiliated to the United Steelworkers in the USA) who are organising Palermo’s Pizza workers have been on strike for more than five months fighting for, union rights, a voice at work and a safer workplace. … Continue reading

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Fighting Abolition Of The Agricultural Wages Board

On the day the ludicrously short and inadequate consultation on the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board ended, rural workers protested at Westminster. They were calling on the government to abandon plans which will plunge 154,000 rural workers in to … Continue reading

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Bloggers Of The World Unite: ‘Stop The Net Grab’

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is today (November 12th) launching a major new campaign to stop an attempt by the International Telecommunications Union (which is not a trade union but a UN body) to control the internet today. The proposals … Continue reading

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European TUC e-newsletter

Click here or on the graphic  to download the latest European TUC e-newsletter.

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Beecroft by the backdoor

The government’s attempts to smuggle more of the discredited Beecroft report which proposed, among other things, to remove unfair dismissal rights to make it easier to sack workers, has been rumbled not only by unions but by one of the country’s top … Continue reading

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Where costs are king scant concern is given to the impact on rural life

By Diana Holland, Unite Assistant General Secretary What is this government’s problem with the countryside?  It tried and failed to sell off the forests and kill off badgers. It’s thrashing around as historic ash trees die. They don’t like humans much … Continue reading

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Sign the Cammell Laird e-petition

Former shipyard workers have stepped up their pressure on the Government for compensation over events which happened in 1984. Thirty-seven Birkenhead shipyard workers were jailed for occupying rigs at the Cammell Laird shipyard in an effort to stop compulsory redundancies … Continue reading

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