G20: World’s Unions Call for Far-Reaching Urgent Action
Trade union leaders from around the world are converging on London this week to press their case at the G20 Summit on the global economic crisis.
March 31st, 2009
Archive
Archive for March, 2009
Miliband’s moves on Colombia are a positive help to unions and democratic forces, says TUC
Responding to a written Ministerial statement on Colombia from Foreign Secretary David Miliband today (Tuesday), TUC General Secretary and President of Justice for Colombia Brendan Barber said:
March 31st, 2009
Launch of roadmap on regulatory framework for financial services to benefit consumers and staff
A new report launched today (Tuesday 31st March) by The Financial Inclusion Centre has set out the need for radical reform of the financial services industry and put forward proposals for that reform.
March 31st, 2009
Jobs must come first, as Unite announces March for Jobs
massive march for jobs through the UK’s manufacturing heartland has been called today (Tuesday) by the UK’s biggest union, Unite, in a major effort to ensure that action to protect jobs and skills is first among the government’s recession-beating priorities.
March 31st, 2009
Unite promotes Prostate Cancer awareness
Unite is running an on going campaign to promote prostrate cancer awareness. While we all know about the more common forms of cancer and the screening programmes particularly for cervical and breast cancer, screening for male cancers such as testicular and prostate cancer have tended to receive less publicity.
March 31st, 2009
Higher education employers fail to make a pay offer
The Higher Education unions: EIS, GMB, UCU, UNISON and Unite expressed their amazement that the national HE employers: The Universities, Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) failed to make an offer at pay talks yesterday (30th March 2009).
March 31st, 2009
Unite and USW global union sets out response to global crisis ahead of G20
Workers Uniting, the first global union created through the coming together of Unite, the UK’s biggest union and the USW, the largest private sector union in the USA and Canada, has today (Tuesday) set out their response to the global crisis ahead of the meeting of G20 world leaders.
March 31st, 2009
Visteon collapse hammers home crisis engulfing manufacturing
Unite warned that the closure today (Tuesday) of the Visteon plants at Belfast, Basildon and Enfield once again pointed up the desperate problems besetting UK manufacturing, and hammered home again the need for strategic governmental support for the sector
March 31st, 2009
Mixed Message For Low Paid Workers As 300,000 Workers In Health And Local Government In Scotland Receive A Pay Increase Of 2.4% Or More
GMB is committed to continuing the fight to remove low pay from our public services
March 31st, 2009
GMB Disappointed As Higher Education Employers’ Fail To Make A Pay Offer
The unions will be discussing the employer’s initial reaction and will follow this up as a matter of urgency with further discussions
March 31st, 2009
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