Manufacturing’s recovery ends before it starts
Tony Burke presents the bad news about UK manufacturing, and asks what the government is doing to improve the situation.
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.
Robin Hood Tax gains momentum – on the continent
Tony Burke writes about the calls from a leading German Trade Unionist to introduce a Robin Hood tax in Germany, and to deal with the discrepancy between taxes on earned and unearned income.
Manufacturers still fear a double-dip recession in 2012
Manufacturers remain worried a double dip recession is looming as the slight revised increase was based on higher growth in agriculture, construction and services.
Cameron sells out UK manufacturing for his loony backbenchers
Tony Burke details what we should expect from Cameron’s isolationism and how that will harm UK manufacturing.
A new strategy to help save UK manufacturing
Unite has launched a new strategy to help save UK manufacturing, writes Assistant General Secretary Tony Burke.
Pay increases by just 2.3 per cent in the last three months
Tony Burke runs over the numbers for pay inflation and finds that they are grim.
You gotta fight, for the right, to tweeeeeeet
Tony Burke, Assistant General Secretary of Unite, details the victory of the Newspaper Guild Of New York in fighting for the right to free expression online.
What has Europe ever done for us? Well…
Tony Burke runs through the many, many, many positive things the European Union has done for British workers.
The coalition are conspiring to lock the left out of the electoral process
Tony Burke warns of the coalition’s attempts to reduce the electoral roll by three million left wing voters under the guise of allowing people to be left alone.
Coalition manufacturing policy shot to pieces
The 3,000 job losses announced during the Labour party conference show the coalition’s manufacturing strategy is non-existent and has been shot to pieces.