Category Archives: Workers Uniting

And the Government wants to make easier for bosses to sack workers….

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Tony Burke

After publishing the Beecroft Report and arguing that employers need to be able to easily dismiss workers here is a salutory lesson on why workers need more, not less protection.  Unite members were employed at a small specialist printers GC … Continue reading →

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Manufacturing figures damning indictment of government economic policy

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Tony Burke

Yesterday’s manufacturing figures from Markit/CIPS make shocking reading and are a damning indictment of the government’s economic policy and the total lack of any strategy to grow the economy and create jobs. The automotive sector being the only glimmer of … Continue reading →

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Updated: Unite wins recognition at GE in Scotland. Company concedes..

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Tony Burke

Unite members working at GE Caledonian Aviation have voted in favour of trade union recognition following a ballot conducted though the Government’s Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) procedures. Unite had offered to negotiate a voluntary agreement with GE, but GE, determined … Continue reading →

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UPDATED: Employee Rights Stop Employer Wrongs – New TUC Website

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Tony Burke

The Con-Dem government has made it easier for employers to sack staff, and harder for workers to take claims for bad treatment to an employment tribunal. Maternity rights are at risk and health and safety protection under fire. But this … Continue reading →

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USW 70th Anniversary Rally in Cleveland

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Tony Burke

The United Steelworkers Union was founded 70 years ago in the Music Hall of the Cleveland Auditorium, Ohio. Formed by the Steelworkers Organising Committee who set out to unionise thousands of exploited steel and metal workers across the USA and … Continue reading →

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New poll reveals the consensus behind austerity is shattering

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Tony Burke

The Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) is a new think tank established Unite the Union, GMB and the Institute of Employment Rights to act as a centre for left debate and discussion. Originating in the labour movement, Class is … Continue reading →

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Driving Growth: How the automotive industry can kickstart the economy

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Tony Burke

Unite is committed to campaigning for a viable and flourishing future for manufacturing in the UK. The manufacturing sector still suffers from a bad reputation, firstly because too many people assume there is little or no manufacturing left in the UK … Continue reading →

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Desperate Cameron to revive Beecroft attack on employment rights?

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Tony Burke

According to today’s papers David Cameron has revived Adrian Beecroft’s report proposing major attacks on UK employment rights in a desperate bid to revive the economy. The Telegraph says that Cameron will throw his weight behind Beecroft’s report which calls for … Continue reading →

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With the future of UK manufacturing under pressure a new approach is needed

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Tony Burke

Download a pdf of an interview I did during a visit to BAe in Wharton, meeting Unite reps and management. Its from their in-house magazine Heads Up! Tony Burke in BAe’s Heads Up Magazine

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Memo to EU leaders: If austerity fails, its austerity’s fault – not that of workers’ rights

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Tony Burke

Karl Marx said: “A spectre is haunting Europe.” That spectre today is austerity and it is ready to haunt the UK.Ahead of the European Union leaders summit on Wednesday called to discuss growth, unions, including the European TUC are saying – enough is enough. … Continue reading →

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