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Let’s Work Together to get The Workers to No1

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.

Posted on November 22nd, 2011 by John Wood filed under: Union campaigns

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VIDEO: TUC rally and lobby of Parliament

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.

Posted on October 19th, 2010 by StrongerUnions filed under: Union campaigns

Anna

Trailer for the fantastic new film ‘Made in Dagenham’

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.

www.tuc60seconds.org.uk

Posted on June 10th, 2010 by Anna filed under: Union news

Owen Tudor

VIDEO: It’s going to ruin them!

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!

Posted on June 8th, 2010 by Owen Tudor filed under: Union campaigns

John Wood

The world’s greatest bank job

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.

Posted on February 10th, 2010 by John Wood filed under: Union campaigns

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A TUC message for Copenhagen

TUC General Secretary, Brendan Barber, speaking on what trade unions want from a Copenhagen deal, and how the transition to a low carbon economy would benefit British workers. From the Government’s ACT ON COPENHAGEN website.

Posted on November 24th, 2009 by StrongerUnions filed under: Union news

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A union of Green

The ITUC and Sustainlabour just released this short video showing commitment of unions around the world to fight against climate change in the run up to the Copenhagen climate change conference.

Sustainlabor is an independent train union foundation that aims to bring trade unions into the climate change challenge. They have produced this jointly with the ITUC, as part of a series of videos for Copenhagen made up of trade union voices, North and South, on what climate change means for those taking part, what we want to achieve in Copenhagen, and above all, the actions that Governments must commit to if we are to avoid catastrophic climate change in the years to come.

You can see more from Sustainlabour at their YouTube channel.

Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by StrongerUnions filed under: Union campaigns