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Packaging Strike Hits Cruise Ship
The United Steelworkers in the USA and Canada have taken their dispute with Crown Holdings, the multi national packaging company to cruise ships owned by Carnival Cruises. USW members have been handing out union leaflets and wearing T-shirts in support … Continue reading
‘Waiting For Recovery In Pay’ Says Labour Research
At 2.5%, union-negotiated private sector pay rises in the year to July had a lower mid-point (median) value than they did in the same period a year earlier, according to the Labour Research Department (LRD). The equivalent figure then was … Continue reading
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Len McCluskey On Andrew Neil and Unite Statement On Sunday Times Report
Today’s (November 3rd) Sunday Times carries an extensive attack on Unite the union, apparently based on emails given to the newspaper by Ineos or its agents. The Sunday Times submitted a list of questions to Unite yesterday, in response to … Continue reading
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Len McCluskey: “Tories dragging nation back to 70s – the 1870s”
Len McCluskey General Secretary of Unite has warned that the lessons of the banking crash have not been learned by the political elite – and that this government is taking the nation backwards to a darker time for ordinary people. … Continue reading
Michael Crick Skewers Grant “Michael Green” Shapps
Channel 4′s Michael Crick skewers Tory Party Chairman over his dodgy software business. The Metropolitan cops say their lawyers concluded selling of Shapps firm’s software “may constitute an offence of fraud”
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Recovery? What Recovery?
A new poll shows 4 in 5 people are not benefiting from the “economic recovery” according to the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class). The union supported think tank says a new poll in the same week as official figures show … Continue reading
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Grangemouth shows the inequality of the fight that unions face now
By Len McCluskey Seldom has one industrial dispute said so much about our society as the now concluded issue of the future of the Grangemouth refinery. Unite has reached an agreement with the owner, Ineos, which will guarantee the future of skilled and … Continue reading
Don’t let the haters win – join the march against fascism
Unite will be marching in Liverpool city centre in a mass celebration of multicultural Britain. Our message is clear: ‘Those that peddle hate are not welcome here – Nick Griffin must go!’ The march on Saturday October 12th, sets off from … Continue reading