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Workers' Fight for Equal Treatment Halted By Anti-Union Laws...
Unite have been
pushing for pay rises and central pay bargaining across London
buses, but on the 9 October 2008 their attempts to secure
equal treatment for bus drivers were dealt a serious blow
in the High Court as once again the anti-union laws were used
by an employer...
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December 2008
November
- December 2008 Newsletter Now Available to Download...
1 December 2008
Big
rebellion in favour of trade union freedom - the campaign
continues...
On Tuesday night
Gordon Brown suffered his biggest rebellion in the Commons
when 45 Labour MPs voted for a key clause taken from the Trade
Union Rights and Freedoms Bill...
10
November 2008
Joint
United Campaign and Institute of Employment Rights Briefing
on Amendments to the Employmenmt Bill...
The IER and United
Campaign have produced an updated Briefing Paper on the Employment
Bill and New Clauses 1, 2, 3 and 6 including living examples
from trade unions...
3
November 2008
Employment
Bill to Reach Report and 3rd Reading Stage on the 4th November...
The Employment Bill
is due to reach it's final stage in the House of Commons on
November 4th. This may be the last oppurtunity to amend legislation
in favour of workers' and trade union rights before the next
election...
31
October 2008
European
Parliament Votes for New Rights for Agency Workers...
The European Parliament
voted to support the introduction of the Agency Workers Directive
on 22 October, which makes the directive all the more likely
to be adpoted by the other institutions of the EU...
31
October 2008
Andersson
Motion Adopted by European Parliament...
Jan Andersson, a
Swedish socialist MEP, who is the chair of the European Parliament's
Social Committee, spearheaded a motion to challenge the effect
of the recent ECJ cases...
31
October 2008
Amendments
to the Employment Bill Now Tabled...
After the success
of the postcard campaign in support of justice in the workplace,
the following amendments to the Employment Bill have now been
tabled. These amendments are being fully supported by the
TUC and reflect some aspects of the Trade Union Rights and
Freedoms Bill...
24
October 2008
New
Articles Added to Site...
Articles by John
Hendy QC, Derek simpson, Bob Crow and John Usher...
21
October 2008
United
Campaign Briefing on Amendments to the Employment Bill...
A Briefing Paper
prepared by John Hendy QC, National Secretary of the United
Campaign...
20
October 2008
News
from Europe on the ECJ cases...
The ETUC and the
European Social Forum have last week issued statements on
the ECJ cases...
13
October 2008
United
Campaign Launches Postcard Campaign in Support of Amendments
to the Employment Bill...
This year's TUC
Congress saw the launch of the United Campaign's postcard
campaign in support of amendments to the Employment Bill.
The Government's Bill is currently progressing through Parliament
and can be amended to include several clauses taken from the
TUC backed Trade Union Rights and Freedoms Bill...
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September 2008
September/October
TUC edition Newsletter Now Available to Download...
18
September 2008
A
'10 Minute Rule Bill' Adds to the Campaign...
Depending on the
progress of the Employment Bill we intend to encourage and
promote the return of the Trade Union Rights and Freedoms
Bill as a '10 Minute Rule Bill' before Parliament...
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September 2008
Support
Workplace Justice - Amendments to the Employment Bill....
The United Campaign
continues to promote the issues contained in the TUC backed
Trade Union Rights and Freedoms Bill and positive amendments
to the Employment Bill continuing its way through Parliament.
Everyone can help by supporting our postcard campaign encouraging
MPs to support amendments...
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August 2008
Brown
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
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
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
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
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
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
June
- July 2008 Newsletter Now Available to Download...
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June 2008
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
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
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
The
European Parliament...
The European Parliament
clearly intended prevailing pay and conditions should be those
of the country where the work is being carried as it specifically
wanted to overturn the 'country of origin' principle in the
Posting of Workers Directive...
2
June 2008
The
Irish Referendum...
It must be a legitimate
stance for Irish workers and those who are concerned about
rights, equality and democracy to vote against the Lisbon
Treaty, to draw attention to the implications of the ECJ cases
for 'Social Europe', even if they wish to support the Lisbon
Treaty itself...
2
June 2008
'Social
Europe' exposed by the European Court of Justice...
In April 2008 the
ECJ gave judgment in the third case - Rüffert - relating
to collective union rights in Europe. Once again human rights
and fundamental freedoms lost out to business rights in the
EU...
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April 2008
The
Employment Bill - The Debate Continues...
The latest session
of the Grand Committee of the House of Lords took place on
3 April and the next step is the report stage. Their Lordships?
debate on the need to change the law following the decision
of the European Court of Human Rights in ASLEF v UK did not
go well...
25
April 2008
The
ETUC Response to ECJ judgments in Viking and Laval...
Following a debate
at the Executive Committee on 4 March in response to Laval,
Viking and other decisions expected in similar cases the ETUC
passed a resolution...
31
March 2008
The
Next Stage of the Debate - The Employment Bill...
The latest session
of the Grand Committee of the House of Lords took place on
13 March. But their Lordships didn't finish the business so
the key debate on the need to change the law following the
decision of the European Court in ASLEF v UK will be concluded
on another day...
31
March 2008
April
- May 2008 Newsletter Now Available to Download...
31
March 2008
Temporary
and Agency Workers and the Bigger Picture...
Andrew Miller's
Private Member's Bill for Temporary and Agency Workers passed
the second reading stage on Friday 22 February. Over 100 MPs
are needed on a Friday to stand a chance at second reading
and over 140 were there to vote it through...
10
March 2008
Employment
Bill in the Lords...
There will be another
session of the Grand Committee on 13 March when their Lordships
will debate the question of the extent of the freedom for
trade unions decide their own affairs, in accordance with
the fundamental human right of association and the decision
in ASLEF v UK...
10
March 2008
The
Story behind Prison Officers Rights - article by Brian Caton...
The Prison Officers'
Association (formed in 1939) never took industrial action
until last year, when they walked out 'unofficially' in the
summer...
8
February 2008
January
- February 2008 Newsletter Now Available to Download...
8
February 2008
Viking
and Laval - A Curate's Egg Followed by a Bad Egg...
These eagerly awaited
decisions by the European Court of Justice dashed expectation
and the outcome looks like a real set back for workers rights.
Hopes were fairly high when the Viking decision was published...
9
January 2008
An
Update on the Trade Union Freedom Bill...
Our efforts to bring
back the Bill introduced by John McDonnell last year failed
to find an MP high enough in the poll for a Private Member's
Bill. But we are formulating further action in our campaign
to free unions from the shackles of the anti trade union laws.
We will press on to put out the message for trade union freedom
in a variety of other ways...
9
January 2008
Temporary
and Agency Workers and the Race to the Bottom...
In early December,
when the decisions in Viking and Laval were awaited, we had
the spectacle of the UK Government - with only one or two
others - scuppering a proposed EU directive for equal treatment
for temporary and agency workers...
2
January 2008
An
Update on the Employment Bill...
With its second
reading set for 7 January, when the Lords are back in session,
the Bill in its current form has disappointed many - unless
you're part of the CBI, or Federation of Small Businesses
perhaps - because of its restricted scope. In its current
draft, it won't even leave UK law compliant with...
2
January 2008
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