It’s estimated that around 3 million jobs will be lost in the US if the car industry collapses and an article here from the Los Angeles Times puts an interesting spin on the crisis arguing that what’s needed is MORE not LESS unionisation of car makers.
Commenting on attempts by the ‘big three’ car makers in the [...]
Brian Souter, co-founder of Stage Coach, is the sort of person who is often described as a ‘colourful character’. I am sure he is often described rather more robustly than this, but this a family blog so I’ll stick to the euphemisms. When some-one’s wikipedia entry looks like it must be made up but in fact it isn’t [...]
When I was a CPSA/PCS activist in the late 80s/1990s, for a period of time it seemed that I was never out of the Merseyside Trade Union Community Unemployed Resource Centre, a building that dominated (and still does) the top half of Hardman Street in Liverpool.
I was there for training (it housed the city’s TU [...]
Not a post directly related to trade unions - but thought it worth mentioning that yesterday I unexpectedly got the chance to go and see the Revd. Jessie Jackson speak at Liverpool University.
Jackson’s life has been devoted to the struggle for equality in the US and elsewhere and he witnessed first hand some of the [...]
This is officially the 100th post on the ‘Stronger Unions’ blog.We have yet to receive our telegram from the Queen…
Since April we’ve posted 100 posts on issues ranging from union busting to ‘well dressed organisers’. Some have been interesting - some really haven’t; some have been insightful - some… Ah well you get the drift.
At [...]
For over 7 years, workers at Pakistan’s Pearl Continental Karachi Hotel have been fighting against sackings, harassment, violence and imprisonment to have their union recognized.
Now the charitable foundation established by the hotel’s owners to freshen their image is a finalist in the online World Challenge competition co-sponsored by amongst others, the BBC.
If you agree that [...]
I came across this short piece on the Politics Home site today discussing the influence (or lack of) of unions on recent policy announcements by the government.
According to a panel of “insiders and experts” trade unions (and am I being paranoid in thinking that the way the piece is worded suggests that the author thinks that the [...]
A lot of the coverage of Zimbabwe in the news deals with two issues - how ghastly life in Zimbabwe is (eg the latest outbreak of cholera); and how Mugabe and Tsvangirai are squabbling over which Ministry their parties get. These are not unimportant issues (the main argument between ZANU-PF and the MDC is over who controls [...]
Jail guitar doors
Last night I attended a private screening of ‘Jail guitar doors’ a documentary produced to highlight the independent initiative set up by Billy Bragg called Jail Guitar doors which aims to provide musical instruments for the use of inmates serving time in Her Majesty’s prisons. It takes its name from the b-side of [...]
I’ve spent the last couple of days in Madrid attending an ETUI ‘Recruitment Network’ meeting - and so have done little in the way of shopping etc. I flew out - and am waiting to fly back - on British Airways, which recognises a number of TUC affiliated unions including UNITE and BALPA. As usual [...]
