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International Metalworkers tell Apple ‘ give workers a voice’
The International Metalworkers Federation, has, with other trade union, labour and consumer groups called on computer giant Apple to give workers a voice in their future and demanded more information about the factories where its components are made. Unions and … Continue reading
The true story of why oil tanker drivers have voted for industrial action.
While the media went to town on petrol shortages, the use of the armed forces to drive tankers, distortion of the facts of the case, the real reasons why Unite members voted to take industrial action got scant coverage. Contarary … Continue reading
MMP – Greeeeat success at Liverpool event!
Locked out workers at MMP in Bootle were out in Liverpool City Centre today (Saturday) gathering growing support from ordinary people and families in their campaign to get the Austrian multi national packaging company to end the lock out of … Continue reading
Call for Action: Cammell Laird occupation 1984
In May 1984 it was proposed to make half the workforce redundant at Cammel Laird’s shipyard on Merseyside, calling into question the future viability of the yard. In response to compulsory redundancies the workers occupied the yard with 70 still … Continue reading
MMP workers in Liverpool, Saturday. Meet them and protest at the on-going lock out.
When: Saturday, 23rd March, 2012 at 11.00 am Where: Church Street (opposite Primark), Liverpool City Centre L1 Tony the Tiger joins locked out MMP workers call for roar of support from Liverpool shoppers MMP workers, who make packaging that holds some of the … Continue reading
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
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
Coming Soon! : IndustriALL – the new manufacturing and industrial global union
As manufacturing companies have restructured and extended their reach to every corner of the globe, trade unions have had to respond. Many unions in the UK affiliate to one or more of the Global Union Federations (known in the trade … 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