Doreen Lawrence Adds Her Support to Gmb Members Striking Against Carillion
DOREEN LAWRENCE TO ATTEND PUBLIC MEETING IN SWINDON ON MONDAY 14TH MAY TO SUPPORT CARILLION WORKERS SUBJECTED TO DISCRIMINATION This public meeting with Doreen Lawrence and Keith Vaz MP will provide an...
View ArticleMark Serwotka on Question Time
Tonight’s Question Time sees PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka share the panel with Harriet Harman, Iain Duncan Smith, Ming Campbell, and Theo Paphitis from the Dragons’ Den. BBC One, 10.35pm.The...
View ArticleIreland’s Unions Say No to Austerity
Three major unions with combined membership of more than 100,000 have issued a strong call to vote no in Thursday’s referendum on what they are calling the austerity treaty. The CPSU, Mandate and UNITE...
View ArticleUnite Gs Election: Jerry Hicks – Wrong Era, Wrong Politics
This is a guest post by Jim Kelly, Chair of London & Eastern Region Unite the Union; here he is writing in a personal capacity. I am putting this note forward to challenge the claim of Jerry Hicks...
View ArticleTrade unions and the law
Last Saturday saw the launch meeting of the new Campaign for Trade Union Freedom, created by the merger of the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions (LCDTU) and the United Campaign for the...
View ArticleGENDER BALANCING IN THE UNIONS
I have recently come back from the SW TUC AGM at UNISON’s excellent holiday camp facility in Croyde Bay, Devon. It is the tradition of SW TUC to have a one and a half day conference, which allows the...
View ArticleWorkers Memorial Day in Swindon
Swindon trade unionists commemorated Workers’ Memorial Day on Sunday 28th April, in remembrance of those people who have been killed at work, or as a result of injuries sustained at work. Organiser...
View ArticleThe Catholic Church on trade unions
Interesting film from the 1980s, showing active support for organised labour by the Catholic Church The post The Catholic Church on trade unions appeared on Socialist Unity.
View ArticleSW TUC ‘best campaign’ award
Excellent evening last night, at Exeter City FC, for the SW TUC awards, where GMB activists involved in the dispute with Carillion at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital were winners in the Best Campaign...
View ArticleThere is a blacklist – the biggest civil liberties scandal in the UK
Great song about blacklisting – a real problem in the UK, and one affecting many readers of this site. Click below to listen to “There is a blacklist” The post There is a blacklist – the biggest civil...
View ArticleTrade Unions and Television
This is a cross-post from the brilliant A Very Public Sociologist blog. At my Unite branch meeting tonight, we heard the welcome news numbers had increased by an additional 47 people on last month....
View ArticleDefying gravity – the teacher unions
This is a guest post from Martin Brown, the editor of Education for Tomorrow. It’s ridiculous. If you’re a classroom teacher working in England you have a choice of three TUC-affiliated unions...
View ArticleThe dangers of “opt in”
Larry Whitty turned down job of implementing Ed M's reform plan as feared was unworkable & groundwork had not been done — Nick Robinson (@bbcnickrobinson) July 9, 2013 Jon Lansman is well worth...
View ArticleUnite’s leverage squads are both legal and necessary
Isn’t it a sign of the times that when hundreds of men and their families are threatened with losing the jobs they depend on unless they accept a cut in pay, pension entitlement, and conditions – this...
View ArticleRIP Bob Crow
Bob Crow passed away early this morning. Devastating news and a huge blow to the trade union and socialist movement. Our thoughts are with his comrades and loved ones. The post RIP Bob Crow...
View ArticleHow do we revive the global union movement?
This is a guest post from activist Josiah Mortimer That’s the verdict of Bill Fletcher of the American Federation of Government Employees, speaking to the Global Labour Institute’s International Summer...
View ArticleHow workers can win
There’s a question every trade unionist must stop and ask at some point: what am I organising for? For Kirill Buketov, international campaign officer of the International Union of Food and Allied...
View ArticlePublic services under attack – international austerity and the fight-back
Speaking to the Global Labour Institute’s 2014 International Summer School Rosa Pavanelli, General Secretary of Public Services International, gave an account of the struggles public service workers...
View ArticleLen McCluskey’s Newsnight interview on Labour’s election defeat
The post Len McCluskey’s Newsnight interview on Labour’s election defeat appeared on Socialist Unity.
View ArticleLabour hopefuls booed and Jeered
PUK News The Labour leadership frontrunners have been booed and jeered by union activists as they refused to condemn Tory plans for a £23,000 benefits cap. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, shadow...
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