Category Archives: Trades Union Congress

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

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Tony Burke

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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Family friendly rights no substitute for workers’ rights

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Tony Burke

By Roger Jeary Nick Clegg has proudly announced the government will make “improvements” to parental leave, allowing fathers to share mothers’ maternity leave. But is this as good a deal as the Deputy Prime Minister wishes to make out? It’s … Continue reading →

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Fighting Abolition Of The Agricultural Wages Board

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Tony Burke

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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London launch of ‘Memoirs Of A Militant’

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Tony Burke
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Bloggers Of The World Unite: ‘Stop The Net Grab’

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Tony Burke

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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Obama: Was It The Unions What Won It? – Updated.

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Tony Burke

US unions are rightly claiming significant credit for the resounding election win by Barak Obama. The AFLCIO, in the form of its barnstorming president Rich Trumka, said that the swing states of Ohio, Wisconsin and Nevada were won through “union … Continue reading →

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Beecroft by the backdoor

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Tony Burke

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

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Tony Burke

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

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Tony Burke

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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Trading Away Peace: How Europe Sustains Israel’s Illegal Settlements

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Tony Burke

A large coalition of European NGOs and faith groups are today releasing  a report called ‘Trading Away Peace – How Europe Sustains Israel’s Illegal Settlements’. Click here to download a copy. The report is a comprehensive overview of the EU … Continue reading →

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