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Back to the future for US unions: “this is how we began” 23 Aug 2013 | 01:42 pm
Tony Burke has already blogged here about how the AFLCIO Convention next month in Los Angeles (bit different from Bournemouth!) will see radical new proposals to expand union membership to cover socia...
Fiji’s sugar mills: army comes calling 22 Aug 2013 | 03:45 pm
If you’d just taken a decision by secret ballot to strike over the fact that you hadn’t had a pay rise for seven years, how would you feel about the army coming round your workplace? Chances are that ...
Defend trade union rights at DCLG 22 Aug 2013 | 01:25 pm
The TUC is urging all trade union members, activists and supporters to get behind a PCS campaign to defend union rights at the Department for Communities & Local Government. The campaign has been lau...
Organising, communicating & the internet 21 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
In the position I’m in here at the TUC, I’m often asked what I am reading, what I would recommend to others hoping to steer successful campaigns. Over the last year, I have been increasingly drawn to...
Stop anti-unionists getting away with murder in the Philippines 12 Aug 2013 | 02:26 pm
Antonio ‘Dodong’ Petalcorin, transport union leader assasinated last month Last month we were lucky enough to be visited by Josua Mata, the leader of the Alliance of Progresive Labour in the Phili...
Trumka plans to revive US unions 11 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
At the coming convention of the US trade union body, the AFL-CIO, (the US equivalent of the British TUC) to be held in Los Angeles (September 8-11) the charismatic Richard Trumka who is the President ...
Global consistency from Sports Direct 9 Aug 2013 | 01:44 am
One of the strangest aspects of globalisation is the way that some transnational corporations act very differently around the world. Companies that respect their workforce, work closely with unions, a...
Scandal revealed: union leaders run union G20 body 7 Aug 2013 | 08:30 am
Bone-headed Australian online news group Faxts Media has uncovered a dastardly pro-union plot by the Labor Government. In the run up to the 2014 Australian G20, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announce...
McDonald’s encourages strike action by US fast food workers 6 Aug 2013 | 07:04 am
McDonald’s aren’t known for their pro-union approach (indeed, they’re a global by-word for exactly the opposite) so when I arrived for a summer holiday in Washington DC (technically “the people’s repu...
A global agenda for jobs and growth 4 Aug 2013 | 06:33 pm
ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow is on home turf in Australia at the moment, and, as Australia takes over the G20 at the end of the year, she gave a Speech to Lowy Institute in Sydney on Thursday ...
