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Lecture at University of Toronto – Global Unions
Sefton Lecture, University of Toronto, 7th March 2013 Tony Burke, Unite Assistant General Secretary “Labour’s Responses to Globalisation – Alternative Forms Of Organisation” Why Unite and the USW created Workers Uniting – the Global Union First of all can … Continue reading
Shock manufacturing contraction leaves Osborne’s credibility in tatters
Figures published yesterday, (March 1st) showed a shock contraction in manufacturing which rounded off another dire week for the UK economy and signalled yet more misery for ordinary working families at the hands of government austerity. The Markit/CIPS purchasing mangers’ … Continue reading
Clegg Wrong On Employment Rights
At yesterday’s Manufacturing Summit at the Motor Heritage Centre in Gaydon, in a lacklustre speech (not surprising give the events of the week), the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg made a passing remark in his speech to UK manufacturers: “This … Continue reading
Collapse of Dignity by Napoleon Gomez
“Collapse of Dignity – A Story Of A Mining Tragedy And The Fight Against Greed And Corruption In Mexico” by exiled trade union leader Napoleon Gomez will be launched on April 15th. Napoleon is the leader of Mexico’s militant and … Continue reading
Coming To A Cinema Near You – ‘The Spirit Of ’45’
The ‘Spirit Of 45’ is Ken Loach’s documentary about how the spirit of unity buoyed the UK during the war years was carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society folowing the election of the 1945 Labour … Continue reading
Revitalising ‘Social Europe’ with Commissioner László Andor and Frances O’Grady, TUC
The starting gun has been fired and we now know that a future Conservative government will begin negotiations to ‘repatriate powers relating to social and employment laws’. Regardless of whether other EU member states will actually allow Britain to bring … Continue reading
Why Labour needs a manufacturing strategy
Despite a last gasp improvement in manufacturing figures at the fag end of last year, after four years of austerity measures the UK economy flat-lined in 2012. Many analysts and commentators are already predicting this year will prove to be … Continue reading
EU Socialists Call For Relaunch Of European Industry
The plenary session of the European Parliament has held a debate on how the European Union can help recover and restart industrial plants. At a time of low demand and with the threat of so many closures, the Socialists and Democrats called on … Continue reading
Employment rights for shares – ‘unlikely that many will take up the offer’
By Jeff Salway of the Scotsman.com A scheme encouraging employees to relinquish certain rights in exchange for shares in their company gets underway in April. But the controversial plan comes with a tax promise that is far less attractive than … Continue reading
McCluskey announces boost in organising work as Unite membership jumps by 50,000
Some good news! Unite the Union increased its membership during 2012 and Len McCluskey has announced that Unite will increase organising work this year. Despite a double-dip recession (and moving to a triple dip recession according to pundits) and the continual … Continue reading