STRONGER UNIONS

Ian Allinson of UNITE has dug out an interesting article here, reporting on Lib-Dem attempts to review facility time and facilities for union reps in Birmingham City Council.
Apparently some of the local councillors are unhappy that union facility time currently costs local taxpayers around £1.4m a year - which sounds a lot, but actually isn’t [...]

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Their are over 200,000 trade union reps and activists in the UK and for the members in the workplaces in which they are active it is they, not union General Secretarys or full-time officers who are the face of the union.  Reps and the work that they do are vital to both the interests of their members [...]

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