Academics Line Up to Support Unite
Leading industrial relations academics sent this letter to the Guardian condemning BA’s tactics. Dear Editor, As academics in the field of employment relations our expertise includes the analysis of...
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...
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Trade 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 ArticleKen Livingstone & Unite’s Len Mccluskey Call for Respect for Nicolas Maduro’s...
Following Nicolas Maduro’s election as Venezuela’s President, Ken Livingstone & Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey join international calls for the results to be respected As we reported earlier...
View ArticleLink: ED MILIBAND WILL LOSE ELECTION IF HE IS ‘SEDUCED’ BY BLAIRITES, SAYS...
Len McCluskey says Labour leader will be ‘cast into dustbin of history’ if he simply offers voters an ‘austerity-lite’ programme. Click here to read the story. The post Link: ED MILIBAND WILL LOSE...
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New Unite community centre opens in Tower Hamlets
A new community centre in Tower Hamlets – to help people in one of the most deprived areas of the UK with employment and welfare issues – was opened yesterday in a partnership bringing together the...
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Falkirk West, and the developing row between Labour and UNITE
The placing of the Falkirk West CLP into administrative measures, is the latest battle in what George Eaton at the New Statesman describes as “a war” between UNITE the union, and the Labour Party. In...
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Unite is at a turning point in its relationship with the Labour Party
The conciliatory tone of Len McCluskey’s recent speech on the Labour Party, and Ed Miliband’s proposed reforms, should be welcomed, as it steps away from escalating what seemed to be a growing crisis....
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Link: Falkirk – BBC report indicates no mal-practice
From Jon Lansman at Left Futures An excellent BBC Radio 4 investigation into the Falkirk row was broadcast on Thursday evening following the Scottish police announcement that there was insufficient...
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Unite’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...
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Unite day of action against benefit sanctions
From Unite the Union: “More and more people are facing benefit sanctions. Over 2 million people have had their money stopped in the past 2 years. That’s 2 million people, many of whom have been plunged...
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 ArticleUnite shop stewards urge members to back Owen Smith
In a letter to Unite members, 29 trade union officials are urging a vote for Owen Smith in the upcoming Labour leadership election. The letter reads: Britain needs a Labour Government to defend jobs,...
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