Owen TudorHere’s a great video from the US Transport Workers Union, part of their campaign against worse terms and conditions at American Airlines and American Eagle, whose parent company has filed for bankruptcy. It contrasts the commitment that workers give to their job with the rewards they – and management – receive, emphasising a dignity of labour/respect at work agenda. TUC surveys over the years find that – although we all grumble about our jobs and our employers – most workers are proud of the work they do, and want their employer to demonstrate the same about them. So, does this video work? Is it the sort of thing that UK unions should be doing?
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An opportune time to give this UNISON campaign video another airing. It may be tongue in cheek, but points to a deadly serious problem.
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As the Guardian said yesterday, the Village People never had a line up like this. Including a civil servant, teacher, firefighter, probation officer, nurse, physiotherapist and more, The Workers are a group of 14 public service union members from around the country, who’ve come together to record the rock standard ‘Let’s Work Together’.The idea is to help inject a bit of solidarity with the UK’s hard pressed public service workers into the charts and the media, ahead of the day of action on pensions justice planned for 30 November.
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Today’s TUC rally and lobby of Parliament was very well attended. Thousands attended to hear speakers at Methodist Central Hall, and to lobby their MPs. Here’s a quick video of some of the day’s activity.
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The trailer has been launched for the new British film ‘Made in Dagenham’ based on the true story of a group of female machinists in a Dagenham car plant who protested for equal pay in 1968.
Their campaign, which made headlines prior to the introduction of the Equal Pay Act in 1970, included organising a three-week strike for 850 female workers and protesting outside Westminster.
The winner of the TUC 60 Second Ad Contest will receive tickets to the Premiere of the film and their winning ad will be shown at a special pre-release screening of the film.
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The Australian trade union movement is currently campaigning for a new tax on mining companies who are currently making huge profits, but pay a smaller proportion of their profits in tax than most other companies. In a way, it’s similar to our campaign for a Robin Hood Tax on the finance sector, rebalancing taxation so that those with the most money pay the most in taxes.
The mining companies are, predictably, claiming that these new taxes will ruin them… as employers always do, whatever the issue, however reasonable the case, however ludicrous their whingeing.
The CBI in Britain has done the same over the National Minimum Wage, the Temporary Agency Workers Directive and so on. They never seem to get called on their serial crying wolf.
Until now, in this brilliant video …. watch and share!
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Here’s a video of some hardy Robin Hood Tax campaign merry men and women braving the 4am chill and nocturnal traffic wardens to beam a message ten metres high onto the side of Bank of England.
If you haven’t yet added your voice to the campaign, go do so now at the Robin Hood Tax website, where you can sign up and vote your support for the tax proposal.
John Wood
StrongerUnions
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