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Support Southampton City Council workers
Unite and Unison members at Southampton City Council are to commence indefinite industrial action from 23rd May in a dispute over proposed pay cuts of up to 5.5%. About 2,600 members of Unite and Unison will be undertaking action. A series of … Continue reading
Unite & PCS to sign “landmark deal”
Unite and PCS will sign a landmark agreement on Friday, 20th May pledging to work together to fight the vicious and unnecessary cuts being imposed by government. Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey and PCS general secretary, Mark Serwotka and will sign … Continue reading
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Workplace Democracy – US Corporate Style
Produced by the IBEW in the USA
This Is A Union Town – by Tom Morello – The Nightwatchman
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Finnish paper workers strike – mediation fails so strikes continue
Ammattiliitto Pro the white collar union in Finland, says it is seeking global unity as it begins its third wave of strikes next week, and continues strikes against the intransigent employers of the Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF). The request … Continue reading
MAY DAY MESSAGES: Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey’s May Day message to Unite
“This government has no mandate from the people. Standing together, we can hold them in check.” Last month, half a million men, women and children marched through London to call for a rethink. A rethink on the job losses sweeping … Continue reading
MAY DAY MESSAGES: Harriet Harman – Government must rethink cuts to the ILO
On International Workers Day, Harriet Harman MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development writes “Why the Government are wrong to cut funding to the International Labour Organisation.” In March, the Tory-led Government published its review of the UK’s aid … Continue reading
Wapping 25 Years On – The Workers Story
From the Morning Star, April 30th By Ivan Beavis Throughout May, the Marx Memorial Library in London’s Clerkenwell is hosting a remarkable exhibition to mark the 25th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, one of the most bitter in labour movement … Continue reading
Not the Royal Wedding news
All this Royal Wedding tosh is getting me down….so here is some real industrial news from this week. MORNING STAR FRONT PAGE A right-royal rip-off: Queen’s cleaners fight for living wage Britain’s penny-pinching royals were exposed today for allowing cleaners … Continue reading
Honeywell dispute: USW & Unite confront shareholders
Citing ten months of unproductive bargaining sessions, locked-out United Steelworkers (USW) from the USA’s only uranium conversion facility at Metropolis, Illionis used their proxy shares to gain access to Honeywell International Corp. shareholders meeting yesterday for an accountability session with … Continue reading