Category Archives: Unite The Union

Channel 4 Fact Check – Do Oil Tanker Drivers Earn £45k?

The claim “Tanker drivers are paid on average £45,000 a year – double that of a regular haulage driver.” Government department DECC press release, 26th March 2012 The background Wednesday’s talks to avoid a fuel tanker strike will bring to a head a dispute … Continue reading

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Locked out and sacked MMP workers demonstrate outside Austrian Embassy

Locked out and sacked UK workers from Austrian multi-national packaging firm MMP (Mayr-Melnhof Packaging) in Liverpool, along with breakfast cereal character effigies – Tony the Tiger, Coco Monkey and Cornelius Rooster – bring their fight to the Austrian Embassy in … Continue reading

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Oil Tanker Drivers – Len McCluskey in The Times

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MMP faces legal action by Unite

Cereal workers being starved of legal entitlements Unite is to take legal action against Austrian owned Mayr-Melnhof Packaging (MMP) over the unlawful dismissal of its workforce and closure of the site in Bootle, Liverpool. The workers make packaging for some … Continue reading

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A date for your diary…..April 16th – fighting back against the ConDem’s attack on workers rights!

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Rio Tinto Lock Out – Alma, Canada

Thousands of workers marched through the streets of Alma in Lac Saint-Jean, Canada to demand an end to a lock out by Rio Tinto and to fight for the preservation of jobs at the Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) smelter. Three months … Continue reading

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The Koch Brothers – How and why they are they are bankrolling the US Right

How and why America’s billionaire Koch Brothers are spending a fortune in support of a conservative political agenda.

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Cash for policies anyone? Beecroft, Wonga, millionaire Tory donors and slasher Osborne

The “cash for lunches” scandal has shone further light on a government report which proposed that employers be allowed to sack workers at will – if the employer thought they were unproductive or “coasting”. Adrian Beecroft produced his report last … Continue reading

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International Metalworkers tell Apple ‘ give workers a voice’

The International Metalworkers Federation, has, with other trade union, labour and consumer groups called on computer giant Apple to give workers a voice in their future and demanded  more information about the factories where its components are made. Unions and … Continue reading

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The true story of why oil tanker drivers have voted for industrial action.

While the media went to town on petrol shortages, the use of the armed forces to drive tankers, distortion of the facts of the case, the real reasons why Unite members voted to take industrial action got scant coverage. Contarary … Continue reading

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