Globalisation is taking its toll on workers rights
According to a new report, the UK falls within the category of nations where people’s workplace rights are regularly violated.
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.
Euro Unions demand: end austerity and put industry back to work
European manufacturing and industrial unions met in Madrid this week at a specially convened conference to discuss the crisis in European industry.
According to George Osborne, a UK manufacturing resurgence is still not on the cards
Yesterday’s Budget did little to convince Unite and our members employed in manufacturing that the government has set a course to re-balance the UK economy.
Budget 2014: The government is sitting on its hands instead of supporting British industry
Even with the car industry motoring ahead in investment and creating jobs, manufacturing employment is barely higher than three years previously.
Manufacturing jobs may be coming back to Britain
Moving production to low cost countries – costing thousands of skilled manufacturing jobs – may be going into reverse.
Britain needs gold standard apprenticeships
This week is National Apprenticeship Week and Britain needs to end poor quality, low-level apprenticeships.
Unions welcome ban on helicopters flying in severe North Sea weather
Unions with members working on off-shore oil installations have tentatively welcomed measures recommended in a report by the Civil Aviation Authority.
The other British economy: low productivity and no manufacturing strategy
There was plenty of data out this week suggesting a bleaker economic picture than that painted by the government and the media.
Leaving the EU would put thousands of manufacturing jobs at risk
Stoking up anti-EU sentiment may be popular with the right-wing press, but it creates uncertainty around jobs and investment.
Shares for rights scheme ‘a big flop’
Osborne has found it difficult to get employers’ organisations to back the scheme.