StrongerUnions
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Work Your Proper Hours Day is on Friday 1 March. Make sure you take a proper lunch break and leave on time so you can enjoy your Friday evening…
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We’ve made this graphic to show why postcode pay doesn’t add up. Click the image to see it all.
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We’ve made this graphic to show why unions across Europe are taking action today, to protest at the unfair impact of austerity. Click the image to see it all.
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This is a guest posting by Mike Smith, Head of Secretariat for the TUC
It was fascinating to hear from Helen Kelly, President of the NZCTU, about what unions in New Zealand are doing to tackle problems that are both similar to those we face in the UK, but significantly different, both in terms of the size of country and areas of organisational strength.
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What exactly has changed as a result of yesterday’s heavily spun public service pension announcement by the government? Our Pensions Justice campaign website examines the detail and finds the difference is hardly as great as Danny Alexander and David Cameron are making out.
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LabourList kick off the new “Unions” section of their swankily redesigned site with this piece from John Healy MP, on Aidan Burley’s Trade Union Officials (Public Funding) adjournment debate in the Commons, seeking to remove paid facility time for union reps. Healy argues the new Tory intake especially have an inbuilt hostility to trade unionism, born partly of a lack of knowledge of what unions actually do, and partly through work done by right wing outliers like the TPA to frame the debate. Facility time needs to be defended, as it enables unions’ grounding in the workplace. Attempts to remove it are a tactical move to undermine unions’ legitimacy and support.
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One of Carl’s recent posts on union facility time earned us a response on Conservative Home, from Tory MP for Witham, Priti Patel. He’s written this piece for Left Foot Forward, addressing the points she made.
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