Category Archives: Workers Uniting

Locked Out Workers Launch International Campaign To Get Rio Tinto ‘Off The Olympic Podium’

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Tony Burke

The United Steelworkers (USW), is calling for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to drop multinational resource firm Rio Tinto as an official supplier of the 2012 London Games, because the company’s treatment of its own workers does not live up … Continue reading →

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Locked out Unite MMP members @ Grand National

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Tony Burke
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Companies using loopholes to avoid equal pay for agency workers

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Tony Burke

Employers are increasingly exploiting loopholes in the the new agency workers regulations, to dodge paying agency and temporary workers equal pay with permanent employees a new report suggests. Two thirds of employers are exploiting loopholes according to employment lawyers Eversheds. The Agency … Continue reading →

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The Budget: Comment by Len McCluskey

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Tony Burke

The much-leaked 2012 Budget will be remembered for two own-goals by George Osborne: taxing the elderly and lining the pockets of the wealthy by cutting the top rate of income tax to 45p in the pound. When the next General … Continue reading →

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Unite’s blueprint for industrial renewal

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Tony Burke

 By Tony Patey One would have thought that with all the business buddies the Tories have got, the government would be well clued up on manufacturing. But apparently not. And the Labour Party is little better. So Britain’s biggest union … Continue reading →

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Coming soon…IndustiALL

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Tony Burke

The last time I blogged on the new Global Union IndustriALL, the new logo was not ready for use. Well, its now available as is a basic website on the new Global Union. Trade unions from around the world will … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Tony Burke

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

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Tony Burke

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

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Tony Burke
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MMP faces legal action by Unite

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Tony Burke

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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