There is no doubt this is a defining moment for the Labour Party. No-one questions that Ed Balls cannot, with 3 years or more to go to the next election, promise to reverse this or that particular cut, because nobody can anticipate in this exceptionally fluid and febrile situation what will be the state of […]
Posts Tagged ‘Len McCluskey’
The future of the left
Nov 28th, 2011 by Len McCluskey.Unite meets in Brighton this week in most troubling times for our country. Faith in the institutions forming the pillars of national life – from the political class to the press – has collapsed. Fear stalks the global markets, and yet our political leaders seem incapable of steering a course out of the despair.
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Under attack by a feral ruling class
Sep 11th, 2011 by Newsdesk.Speaking ahead of this year’s Trades Union Congress, the leader of the country’s biggest union, Unite, warned that government’s continued attacks on working people – including the attacks on public sector pensions – will provoke unrest. Len McCluskey said we are”under attack by a government with no mandate and a feral ruling class that is being […]
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Unite and PCS create alliance against cuts
May 21st, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Two million workers joining together can fend off savage attacks on working people and their families — that’s the message from the conference of the Public and Commercial Services Union, one of the country’s largest public sector unions, and from Unite whose General Secretary, Len McCluskey, yesterday addressed that conference in Brighton. Both unions signed an […]
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McCluskey attacks deceit on pay
May 16th, 2011 by Newsdesk.The callous deceit of the coalition’s claim that ‘we are all in this together’ was unmasked today with a new report showing chief executives earning 145 times the average wage. Unite, the largest union in the country, said that today’s High Pay Commission report revealed that pay disparities between the highest earners and the rest of […]
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Left wins big majority on Unite Executive
Apr 22nd, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Following the election of Len McCluskey, the Left has consolidated its control of the union in elections to its executive. United Left, which promotes a socialist agenda within Unite and backed Len McCluskey, has won forty of the 59 places so far declared on the 65 seat executive. A further four places were won by […]
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As new strike ballot gets underway, Unite tells BA ‘we’re ready to meet, are you?’
Mar 1st, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Unite’s general secretary, Len McCluskey, has today extended an invitation to new British Airways chief executive, Keith Williams, to meet with him at any time to discuss solutions to the cabin crew dispute, now in its third year. The offer comes as Unite’s approximately 10,000 cabin crew members at the airline begin to vote for strike […]
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British Airways, not interested in talking, has launched a legal blitz
Feb 9th, 2011 by Len McCluskey.British Airways cabin crew voted last month overwhelmingly, and for the third time, to take industrial action against their employer on a number of issues relating to the company’s conduct of industrial relations. It was further proof, if proof were needed, of the fact that management at this blue chip British company has completely lost […]
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Leaderless youth will not bring this Government down
Jan 4th, 2011 by Owen Jones.The modern left has few more treasured iconic events than the French uprising of May 1968. 10 million workers occupied or walked out of their workplaces in the biggest general strike in European history. Thousands of radical students demanded the end of French capitalism. As barricades were erected across the nation, President Charles de Gaulle flew to […]
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Union call to stop wrecking fabric of daily life
Dec 30th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.“Working people in the UK can help stop the Conservative-led coalition from taking a wrecking ball to the fabric of daily life.” That is the New Year’s message to some 3.5 million workers across both the public and private sectors from their unions, the GMB, Unison and Unite, who say that the government’s dangerous prescription […]
