Owen Tudor is Head of the TUC’s European Union and International Relations Department

Their campaign, which made headlines prior to the introduction of the Equal Pay Act in 1970, included organising a three-week strike for 850 female workers and protesting outside Westminster.

The winner of the TUC 60 Second Ad Contest will receive tickets to the Premiere of the film and their winning ad will be shown at a special pre-release screening of the film.

www.tuc60seconds.org.uk

The mining companies are, predictably, claiming that these new taxes will ruin them… as employers always do, whatever the issue, however reasonable the case, however ludicrous their whingeing.

The CBI in Britain has done the same over the National Minimum Wage, the Temporary Agency Workers Directive and so on. They never seem to get called on their serial crying wolf.

Until now, in this brilliant video …. watch and share!

Here’s a video of some hardy Robin Hood Tax campaign merry men and women braving the 4am chill and nocturnal traffic wardens to beam a message ten metres high onto the side of Bank of England.

If you haven’t yet added your voice to the campaign, go do so now at the Robin Hood Tax website, where you can sign up and vote your support for the tax proposal.

The Robin Hood Tax campaign launches today, supported by the TUC and dozens of other charities, faith groups and community organisations. The campaign is calling on the leaders of the UK’s political parties to support a global tax on the banks to help repair the human damage caused by the global economic crisis, protect public services at home, fight poverty abroad and help foot the bill for climate change.

Visit the Robin Hood Tax site now, and join the campaign!

TUC General Secretary, Brendan Barber, speaking on what trade unions want from a Copenhagen deal, and how the transition to a low carbon economy would benefit British workers. From the Government’s ACT ON COPENHAGEN website.

The ITUC and Sustainlabour just released this short video showing commitment of unions around the world to fight against climate change in the run up to the Copenhagen climate change conference.

Sustainlabor is an independent train union foundation that aims to bring trade unions into the climate change challenge. They have produced this jointly with the ITUC, as part of a series of videos for Copenhagen made up of trade union voices, North and South, on what climate change means for those taking part, what we want to achieve in Copenhagen, and above all, the actions that Governments must commit to if we are to avoid catastrophic climate change in the years to come.

You can see more from Sustainlabour at their YouTube channel.

If you know anyone who likes online video, why not download a copy and send it on to them? They might be in line for one of three great prizes of £250 of video making kit, and a chance to have their work seen by the wider movement at Congress 2009!