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If Miliband is serious about tackling low pay, he needs to embrace the unions
By James Bloodworth Much of the coverage of Ed Miliband’s recent welfare speech focused on his promise to cap social security spending. This was perhaps understandable considering welfare is the pet subject of the tabloids. The speech also attracted attention because … Continue reading
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DP World: Fighting For Dockers Rights
This week I was proud to take part in a demo outside the offices of DP World, in Vauxhall, London. As the Unite Executive Committee was meeting in London, the Chair of the EC Tony Woodhouse suspended business so as … Continue reading
Miliband’s Alternative To “Osborne’s Punishing Experiement”
In the coverage of Ed Miliband’s speech at Newham Dockside yesterday, the sections of the speech on the world of work received only minimal media coverage. These included the abuses meted out to agency workers; topping up low paid workers … Continue reading
Lobbying scandal? Better bring up the stale old anti-union vomit
By Len McCluskey If Britain’s political elite is despised for one thing as much as its corruption, from MPs’ expenses to the revolving door with business to its once more-exposed flogging of parliamentary influence for cash, it is its cynicism. … Continue reading
The Rise of alt.labor – Walmart Walkouts
US retail giant Walmart is one of non-unionised companies being hit by “surprise” strikes and walkouts in the USA. Following on from reports on this site in the Rise Of alt.labor in the USA and its ‘Sequel’, Walmart, is being hit by … Continue reading
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Class In Liverpool & Leeds
With the Coalition Government and their programme of austerity and tax cuts for millionaires, it is time that someone ensured that the political agenda was on the side of working people and that policy development branched outside of the Westminster … Continue reading
UK Union Membership Grows
Trade Union membership rose by 59,000 to 6.5 million last year according to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills report published this week. The increase is the first since 2003 and was driven by an increase in membership among workers … Continue reading
Update: Unite – Molson Coors Brewery Dispute
Unite members employed at Molson Coors Brewery in Burton On Trent – brewers of Carling lager – have been told they must take a £9,000 pay cut or face the sack – and now they need your support. Unite members … Continue reading
The Rise Of alt.labor – The Sequel
In a blog posted on this site yesterday I reported on the growth of strikes by non-uniosed workers in US fast food outlets. The strikes and “surprise” strikes are now spreading to other non unionised areas besides “fast food”. But … Continue reading