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Pay the Rate: how the EU is closing the loopholes used to exploit migrant workers – but is it too late for us?
By Jude Kirton-Darling Labour MEP – North East England Concerns about free movement and EU migration were amongst the top reasons why many voted to leave in June 2016. Periodically, a dispute has erupted whether wildcat strikes at the Lindsey … Continue reading
Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs
The following blog is from MIT Technology Review and puts an alternative view on the current trend by some politicians and techies who argue that automation will create more and new jobs. Of course there will be ‘new’ jobs – … Continue reading
Unite Launches Groundbreaking ‘Pay Claim Generator’ To Boost Collective Bargaining
Unite, launched a new groundbreakin digital tool to help members to secure better pay deals and help with Collective Bargaining. Unite has dveloped a ‘Pay Claim Generator’ which will help in the fight for increased pay and a fair share … Continue reading
Fantasy Trade Deals: Welcome To Cloud Cuckoo Land
Last weeks latest ‘flight of fancy’ by International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and his Brexit team (cheered on by the pro-Brexit media) that the UK has held informal talks on joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement, if the UK leaves … Continue reading
A Union Voice From Europe
By Martin Mayer, UK TUC delegate to EU Economic and Social Committee December 2017 “BREXIT means BREXIT?” Reality check on current status of the BREXIT negotiations On Friday 8th December, Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker finally signed the piece of … Continue reading
Oppose Tory Plans To Scrap Your Woking Time Rights
Well, it finally happened. After promising to protect workers rights, the Prime Minister is now under pressure to begin disamantling basic workers rights once we leave the EU with Boris Johnson and Micheal Gove cheered on by the right wing … Continue reading
Brexit secretary tells Parliament & public that industry impact studies do not exist
Unite has said David Davis has “deceived Parliament and the public”, after the Brexit secretary admitted the government has not carried out assessments of the impact of leaving the EU for different sectors of the economy. Davis, who previously said … Continue reading
Speech to Unite Manufacturing Delegates, Unite Sector Conferences, November 15th, 2017.
Speech to Unite Manufacturing Sector Conference – 15th November 2017 The Challenge of Brexit Conference we meet at a time when manufacturing is being damaged by the Brexit chaos created by a Government who have no idea of how to … Continue reading
US Unions & Trump’s NAFTA Renegotiations
NAFTA is back in the spotlight 23 years after it became law. Donald Trump pledged to withdraw from it. Instead he’s seeking to renegotiate it (in secret). The first round of talks wrapped up August 20th. The AFL-CIO’s top trade … Continue reading