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Unite Launches Groundbreaking ‘Pay Claim Generator’ To Boost Collective Bargaining
Unite, launched a new groundbreakin digital tool to help members to secure better pay deals and help with Collective Bargaining. Unite has dveloped a ‘Pay Claim Generator’ which will help in the fight for increased pay and a fair share … Continue reading
Factory Gate Meetings At Bombardier Belfast – Thursday January 18th
Workers to gather for union meetings between noon and 1.00pm on Thursday [January 18th] at gates of all five Bombardier sites Decision by US International Trade Commission on proposed 292% C Series tariffs due to be made public within next … Continue reading
Fantasy Trade Deals: Welcome To Cloud Cuckoo Land
Last weeks latest ‘flight of fancy’ by International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and his Brexit team (cheered on by the pro-Brexit media) that the UK has held informal talks on joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement, if the UK leaves … Continue reading
A Union Voice From Europe
By Martin Mayer, UK TUC delegate to EU Economic and Social Committee December 2017 “BREXIT means BREXIT?” Reality check on current status of the BREXIT negotiations On Friday 8th December, Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker finally signed the piece of … Continue reading
Cummins workers in Stamford deserve better
News that Cummins Generator Technologies is shutting its facility in Barack Road in the next 12 months has rocked the Lincolnshire town of Stamford. Production of the company’s alternators, which power traffic lights to hospitals, will be moved to Romania, … Continue reading
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Oppose Tory Plans To Scrap Your Woking Time Rights
Well, it finally happened. After promising to protect workers rights, the Prime Minister is now under pressure to begin disamantling basic workers rights once we leave the EU with Boris Johnson and Micheal Gove cheered on by the right wing … Continue reading
Brexit secretary tells Parliament & public that industry impact studies do not exist
Unite has said David Davis has “deceived Parliament and the public”, after the Brexit secretary admitted the government has not carried out assessments of the impact of leaving the EU for different sectors of the economy. Davis, who previously said … Continue reading
Speech to Unite Manufacturing Delegates, Unite Sector Conferences, November 15th, 2017.
Speech to Unite Manufacturing Sector Conference – 15th November 2017 The Challenge of Brexit Conference we meet at a time when manufacturing is being damaged by the Brexit chaos created by a Government who have no idea of how to … Continue reading
German Union Submits 6% Pay Claim And Demands Shorter Hours
Germany’s largest trade union, IG Metall which represents engineering, automotive, electrical, aerospace, steel and manufacturing workers is preparing to submit a 6% pay claim to German engineering employers – coupled with a claim for shorter working hours. IG Metall negotiates … Continue reading
Speech VSC/CSC Fringe Labour Conference 2017
Thanks to everyone for attending today. Unfortunately I cannot stay for the whole of the meeting as I have to rush back to speak at Unite’s fringe on Brexit in thirty minutes. Firstly, as the position of the Venezuela Solidarity … Continue reading
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