STRONGER UNIONS

US unions grew by nearly half a million members in 2008 according to the latest US Government figures, increasing the rate of unionisation from 12.1% to 12.4% in a year. It’s their best year for a quarter of a century, and the main reason seems to be that in some states, it got easier to [...]

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Recession pressure on low paid workers
TUC Academy Organiser Lizzie Woods on the pressures felt by some of PCS's lowest paid members
(tags: organising academy PCS recession retail)

Sign 'Hope Not Hate's' petition

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To support the G20 mobilisation taking place in London on Saturday March 28th, 2009, the TUC Activist Academy will be running a weekend school for young trade union activists (those under 27 years of age) on Saturday February 28th and Sunday March 1st at Ruskin College Trade Union Education centre, Oxford.
The aims of the weekend [...]

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There are two ways in which this works.
One is the obvious: without freedom of expression, the right to life, and freedom to organise, trade unionists tend to get shot, harassed or excluded from the workplace. And without freedom to bargain collectively, they have less to offer their potential members. These are all fundamental human rights, [...]

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Paul Krugman, the winner of the Nobel prize for economics, says that the US needs the Employee Free Choice Act that US unions are campaigning for. Writing in Rolling Stone magazine (a journal of economic record, of course!) he says that the US economy needs unions just as much as workers do. Last time US [...]

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Altogther now – North West TUC and Liverpool 2008

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GCHQ – 25 years on
Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the Government's decision to ban independent unions in GCHQ – revoked by Labour in 1997.
(tags: organising unions recognition Labour)

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Emptywheel » This Miracle Brought to You by America’s Unions
Union ‘miracle’ workers…

Social Movements 2.0
Starring Eric Lee as the ‘Godfather’!
(tags: organising new media secondlife social networking ICT)

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At long last the first of the short film clips from the ‘Building Stronger Unions’ event held at the TUC on October 14 are now on-line. You can watch them as they are added at the Stronger Unions YouTube channel. Here’s a bit of a taster – this is a clip of Marcin Hinz, a [...]

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Anger over fees paid to young cast of Oliver! |
Thirty five quid a night to star in a West End Musical!! Equity reckons they should be getting at least £225 a week.
(tags: unions pay theatre Equity)

GMB Welcome Olympic Jobs As Boost To UK Economy
GMB comment on Olympic jobs

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