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FOR TRADE UNION FREEDOM
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to Repeal the Anti Trade Union Laws
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 NewsThe United Campaign regularly updates the news section of this website with Trade Union related news items. If you would like to subscribe to email updates please click here. Latest News ReleasesBrown Flies Off in the Wrong Direction On the plane to Japan on 6 July heading for the G8 summit, Gordon Brown held court with journalists “insisting he would resist union pressure to make strike action easier” according to the FT’s man on board... 10 July 2008 Read more Support Grows for the Campaign for a Trade Union Freedom Bill Early Day Motion 1604 in support of the Trades Union Freedom Bill Campaign now has 105 MP's signatures... 10 July 2008 Read more The Commissioner v Luxembourg Case Our latest report on the effect of Viking, Laval and Rüffert covered the experience of the Balpa airline pilots working for British Airways. Since then the ECJ have ruled in the Luxembourg case... 10 July 2008 Read more Irish Anti-Union Laws In Ireland, where laws echo trends found in the UK, an economic downturn and negative “growth” is also coupled with rising job losses... 10 July 2008 Read more Amendments to The Employment Bill It does not look like the Employment Bill will be scheduled for a second reading in the Commons this side of the summer recess. The United Campaign still intend to promote amendments for trade union rights... 10 July 2008 Read more Union Policy, TUC and Labour Party This year there have been some good resolutions from union conferences to promote trade union rights and to campaign against anti-trade union laws... 10 July 2008 Read more June - July 2008 Newsletter Now Available to Download 25 June 2008 Read more The Trade Union Freedom Bill - Three Years On For the 3rd successive year the United Campaign has encouraged an Early Day Motion - EDM 1604 and so far 47 MPs have signed.... 2 June 2008 Read more A Step Forward for Vulnerable Agency Workers On 21 May Andrew Miller withdrew his Private Member’s Bill on Temporary and Agency Workers in the light of an agreement with Government, the CBI and the unions. If the agreement is honoured there will be an EU Directive soon to give equal pay to agency workers – albeit after 12 weeks on the job... 2 June 2008 Read more Life after the European Court Cases Following the Viking and Laval judgments from the European Court of Justice we now have the decision in Rüffert and once again human rights and fundamental freedoms for workers have lost out to business rights in the EU... 2 June 2008 Read more Read more news releases....
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