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Industrial Action to cause maximum damage to Tata Corus
22.02.10
Proposed industrial action targeting Tata Corus – the UK Steel giant – over their mothballing of Teesside Cast Products would be designed to cause maximum damage to the company with minimum damage to the workforce says Community Union. The mothballing will see 1,600 steel workers made redundant with a further 8,000 jobs lost in the surrounding community.
» ReadUCATT Launch Vulnerable Workers Project
19.02.10
Construction union UCATT have launched a unique Vulnerable Workers Project to provide assistance to construction workers facing exploitation or forced to work in dangerous circumstances. The two year project will be based in Derby but its work will cover the whole of England. The project has been made possible due to joint funding by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills via the Union Modernisation Fund.
» ReadStop using Cadbury’s workers as a political football, Unite tells Midlands Tories
18.02.10
Attempts by the Conservatives in the Midlands to jump on the Cadbury bandwagon will not play well with the anxious workforce, Unite, the workers' union has warned today (Thursday).
» ReadMass sackings threaten Easter holiday travel
18.02.10
Rail disruption during the Easter Holiday was signalled today after a strike ballot was triggered for over 2,000 supervisory staff at Network Rail.
» ReadAll eyes on Mandelson on Teesside, but focus should remain on Tata Corus
18.02.10
The entire North East has turned their eyes upon Secretary of State for Business Lord Mandelson in anticipation of his visit to Teesside Cast Products (TCP) today, but the focus should remain on Tata Corus says Community Union. TCP is preparing to begin mothballing operations on Friday, making 1,600 steelworkers redundant and threatening a further 8,000 jobs in the wider economy of the North East.
» ReadUnite condemns Royal Mail’s ‘hidden agenda’ to cut costs but pay bonuses
17.02.10
Unite, the UK’s largest union, has today (17 February) condemned Royal Mail for covertly implementing a drastic cost cutting exercise without proper consultation with the union.
» ReadUnion backing for Transport Committee proposals
16.02.10
ASLEF has backed calls by the House of Commons Transport Select Committee (TSC) for wider electrification of rail and more efforts to address capacity problems in the north - and shares its concerns that investment in new infrastructure must not detract from the development of the existing network.
» ReadCutting public sector jobs would hinder economic recovery, says Unite
15.02.10
Cutting public sector jobs would hinder, rather than help, Britain’s economic recovery, Unite, the country’s largest union, said today (Monday, 15 February).
» ReadNobel economist accuses Tories of ‘scaremongering’
15.02.10
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has accused the Conservative leadership of "scaremongering" over their calls for massive cuts to public spending.
» ReadTory Co-ops a gimmick not a big idea
15.02.10
Tories are talking about swinging public sector spending cuts while they want schools, community nurses, probation services, job centres to launch into huge bureaucratic processes to achieve nothing at all says GMB.
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