Category Archives: Unite The Union

Speech to Unite Manufacturing Delegates, Unite Sector Conferences, November 15th, 2017.

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Tony Burke

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 →

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Speech VSC/CSC Fringe Labour Conference 2017

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Tony Burke

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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Support Birmingham Bin Men This Sunday

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Tony Burke
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Mr. Fox Goes To Washington – Why?

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Tony Burke

UK trade secretary Liam Fox MP is visted Washington, D.C. on Monday, 24th July for talks with the US administration on a future UK-US trade deal. As representatives of working people on both sides of the Atlantic, we want to … Continue reading →

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Electric Vehicle Market sparks into life as ICE age comes to end?

Posted on July 23, 2017 by Tony Burke

Professor David Bailey on the boom in electric vehicles  It seems that electric vehicles (EVs) are finally coming of age as barriers to take up start to fall, costs decline, and range and performance improves. Last December Morgan Stanley upped … Continue reading →

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Brexit Chickens Coming Home To Roost

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Tony Burke

“The Brexit chickens are coming home to roost”  a prominant person in the automotive industry told me during a discussion about the announcement by Michel Barnier that the UK would not benefit one jot from being outside of the single … Continue reading →

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Unite warns voters ‘Tories are no friends of the North’

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Tony Burke

The Conservative Party is ‘no friend of the North’ but instead the party of the ‘leafy shires and the lucky few’, Unite the country’s largest union is warning. Billboards carrying that message will appear across the North of England today … Continue reading →

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Only Labour Backs UK Manufacturing.

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Tony Burke
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What Is Really Happenning In Venezuela – Watch Here.

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Tony Burke
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Labour’s Workers Charter

Posted on April 30, 2017 by Tony Burke

At last a radical employment rights programme set out by the Labour Party – can anyone disagree with these proposals? LABOUR’S WORKERS CHARTER Give all workers equal rights from day one, whether part-time or full-time, temporary or permanent – so … Continue reading →

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