Canadian trade unions fight Canada-EU deal
Government claims about CETA’s progressive elements won’t satisfy unions
Tony Burke
Website Tony Burke is President of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions; a former assistant general secretary of Unite; Trade Union co-ordinator for the Morning Star newspaper and chair of the Campaign For Trade Union Freedom. He is a contributing editor of Left Foot Forward blogging on trade, international issues and workers’ and union rights. As well as LFF, he contributes to the Morning Star, Campaign For Trade Union Freedom website, and his own Power In A Union site.
Juncker’s green light for CETA could mean TTIP by the back door
There is no alternative to opposing these trade deals, says Unite’s Tony Burke
The Tories’ first week of explaining Brexit has been tortuous
Every government statement has been rebuffed or contradicted
The Leave campaign’s economic answers have now melted away
The Brexit team must negotiate an impossible web of red lines
The fight against TTIP is not over ‘till it’s over
The trade deal is in trouble, but could still be imposed costing 150,000 UK jobs
Granting China market economy status would ruin key British industries
The European Parliament has voted against China being granted Market Economy Status, though the Tories have backed it
Manufacturing is essential to the UK’s economy — and it depends on EU membership
The Brexiters’ alternative is a zero-hours, low-skill, low-paid economy
New US law targets anti-union consultancies
The Department of Labor is striving for greater transparency within the multimillion dollar union busting industry
Comment: USA and Venezuelan Right aiming for ‘regime change’
The right has launched a new campaign to oust Maduro, while Obama has renewed an executive order condemning Venezuela as an ‘extraordinary threat’
Productivity figures sink government hopes of an economic revival
In 2014 the UK was 24 per cent less productive than Germany