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  UnionFacts.com
What is often forgotten is that EFCA has the potential to rob workers of an additional private ballot vote.
Union bosses and their lackeys in Congress cling to the faulty notion that the dramatic declines in union membership are the result of employeer intimidation.
Union officials have made ending secret ballots for workers deciding whether to join a union their highest legislative priority.
unionfacts.com   (392 words)

  
 Industrial Workers of the World | One Big Union!
She was a member of the Union of Commercial and Hotel Workers of the Confederacion Nacional de Trabajadores (CNT).
Workers had been struggling for respect from the boss for almost a year before the firings occurred.
When her fellow workers decided to confront the boss about her termination, they were all fired on the spot.
www.iww.org   (1623 words)

  
  Transport and General Workers Union
The representatives of the sixteen unions present at the meeting agreed and Harry Gosling of the Amalgamated Society of Waterman and Lighterman was elected president of the new organisation.
Gosling continued to argue for further amalgamation and in June 1913 the General Labourers' Union joined the NTWF.
In 1922 the two men were instrumental in establishing the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU).
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUtransport.htm   (184 words)

  
  Transport and General Workers Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was founded in 1922, and its current general secretary is Tony Woodley.
On May 25, 2005, the TGWU called the Government's plans for a British national identity card 'an enormous, costly and unnecessary diversion' despite their General Secretary and other representatives supporting its inclusion in the Labour Party's 2005 manifesto.
At the time of its creation in 1922, the TGWU was the largest and most ambitious amalgamation brought about within trade unionism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transport_and_General_Workers_Union   (188 words)

  
 A Snapshot of Events in British Trade Union History   (Site not responding. Last check: )
General Union of Carpenters and Joiners (The oldest union to form Chelmsford Trades Union Council in 1899); it forms the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers in 1921.
National Union of Railwaymen established by the Associated Society of Railway Servants, the General Railway Workers’ Union and the United Pointsmen and Signalmen.
Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union established from a merger of the Cooks' and Stewards Union and the British Seafarers' Union; it collapsed in 1927.
www.chelmsfordtuc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /snapshotnew.html   (7185 words)

  
 A split in the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union (ATGWU)?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
While accepting that the ultimate decision by any group of workers as to which union they want to join is theirs and only theirs to make, there are some arguments against the formation of breakaway unions.
The first of these is that the principal effect of such a breakaway could well be to take the minority of combative/radical activists out of the old union, thus leaving the rest of the members totally at the mercy of the bureaucrats whose anti-democratic behaviour had initially provoked the split.
Both the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU) and the Federated Workers Union of Ireland (FWUI) - which merged to form SIPTU were born as 'left breakaways' - as was the aforementioned NBRU.
struggle.ws /ws/2002/ws69/union.html   (889 words)

  
 List of trade unions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Union of Diaconal Workers in Finland (AKAVA, www.dtl.fi)
Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) (www.ictu.ie) Note: ICTU is the umbrella organisation for unions operating in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union (TandG) (www.tgwu.org.uk)
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_trade_unions   (1927 words)

  
 New Statesman: Bill Morris - general secretary of the Transport and General Worker's Union - Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Transport and General Workers' Union / Officials and employees
Obviously, he will talk about lots of things, but he is especially keen to advance of my interview with the general secretary talk about the euro." That is what I was told in of the Transport and General Worker's Union.
Patience is the watchword these days, as the second biggest union of them all, with a membership of nearly 900,000, adapts to its position on the margins of power.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4503_129/ai_65329034   (1483 words)

  
 Report of a Committee of Inquiry into the causes and circumstances of the dispute between the Amalgamated Union of ...
On 15 June 1970 165 members of the two unions withdrew their labour, and the strike action was confirmed and made official the next day.
Since the dismissals the unions have used picketing and other measures to bring pressure to bear upon the company, and the company has refused to meet the unions.
The restoration of normal industrial relations at the plant is of prime importance, and to this end the committee recommend that a settlement covering the treatment of the 49 workers still on strike should be agreed, in return for the removal of sanctions by the unions against the company.
www.bopcris.ac.uk /bopall/ref13352.html   (382 words)

  
 Britain: Gate Gourmet strike betrayed by Transport and General Workers Union
On September 28, the Transport and General Workers Union and management at the US-owned Gate Gourmet airline caterers reached a deal to end the six-week dispute between the company and its workers at London’s Heathrow Airport.
The company is also demanding that workers made compulsorily redundant sign “compromise agreements” under which they will have to waive their right to take their cases to employment tribunals.
The union and the company announced that hundreds of workers at the in-flight caterer that supplies meals for British Airways had voted to accept the deal.
wsws.org /articles/2005/sep2005/gate-s30.shtml   (872 words)

  
 Transport and General Workers Union
Homepage of Branch 8/162 of the Transport and General Workers Union based in the North East of England.
Members of 8/591 Branch TGWU are employed in the UK chemical industry by the Huntsman company.
Transport and General Workers Union, Housing Workers Branch (1/1111) with information on health and safety, pay and conditions and workplace rights.
regional.allfind.us /c/4bcd0   (170 words)

  
 Long-term Effects of Chemicals in the Environment
The Transport and General Workers' Union very much welcomes the opportunity to input our view at such an early stage of this study and thank you for inviting Trade Union contributions.
With the generally increasing awareness of the importance of the impact of human activity on the environment and ultimately on human health and well-being, members are themselves increasingly aware of their responsibility towards the environment and wish also to see their employers taking a responsible attitude.
Since the aim is not very clear we suggest that the "broad topics" (and preamble) are rewritten to include more clearly the aim for the study e.g.
www.rcep.org.uk /chemicals/TGWU.htm   (1465 words)

  
 ILO SafeWork - Gender issues - Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Transport and General Workers' Union Guide to Women's Health & Safety (2003)
In many cases workplace risks are different depending on factors such as the workers' size, age or gender.
This is not an ILO document, but a good and concrete example of how a workers' organization in Great Britain has created a guide on workplace hazards for working women in eleven different sectors.
www-ilo-mirror.cornell.edu /public/english/protection/safework/gender/trade_union/index.htm   (92 words)

  
 House of Commons - Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs - Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence
The Transport and General Workers' Union (TandG) represents 9,786 people employed in the Ports and waterways of England and Wales.
The ports along with airports are essential transport hubs, and are also important centres for local and regional growth.
However, the degree of spatial competition between ports is a function of geographical separation of ports, the configuration of the inland transport system and the nature of the trade.
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200001/cmselect/cmenvtra/244/244ap69.htm   (2375 words)

  
 SIPTU history   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Although SIPTU is a modern Union, established in 1990, its two founding Unions - the former Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and the Federated Workers' Union of Ireland - have a proud history of advancing the cause of Irish workers.
Both Unions continued to make an important contribution to economic and social developments in the country despite the difficult commercial climate of the depressed 1920s and the war-torn 1930s and 1940s.
However, the untimely deaths of the two leaders meant that the process towards the amalgamation of the two Unions was delayed for a new generation.
www.siptu.ie /about/hist.html   (381 words)

  
 Leading Irish Officials suspended by Transport and General Workers Union   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Late on the afternoon of Tuesday 26 June, the Irish Regional secretary and regional organiser of the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union were suspended from office by Bill Morris, general secretary of the TGWU.
The purpose of trade unions is to defend the workers, not to defend profit margins.
We appeal to the membership of the TGWU in the whole of Britain to back us and demand the immediate rescinding of these unjust measures which, we believe, establish a dangerous precedent for our union and place a question mark over trade union democracy.
www.labournet.net /ukunion/0106/tgwu1.html   (729 words)

  
 A collection-level description for the papers of the Transport and General Workers' Union   (Site not responding. Last check: )
National Passenger Workers' Union, 1938-43: documentation collected by TGWU in course of its disputes with NPWU (MSS.126/TG/3/Sack 31; 90-1; 133).
All of the material deposited by the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) is given the reference number MSS.126.
It has then been subdivided so that archives relating to the TGWU itself are given the reference MSS.126/TG and archives of a constituent are given a reference such as MSS.126/DWS (for the National Union of Docks, Wharves and Shipping Staffs).
www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/126tgcol.htm   (547 words)

  
 Andy Richards, Transport And General Workers Union   (Site not responding. Last check: )
THE wives and partners of MG Rover workers are planning to march on Downing Street in protest at...
Wives and children of MG Rover workers were offered tea and sympathy by the Government when they took their campaign to save thousands of jobs to Downing Street...
The PM has announced that a General Election will be held on Thursday 5 May. So this website will not be publishing its usual mixture of news stories or briefings during the campaign.
news.peem.co.uk /Top_Stories/1033b410551   (809 words)

  
 AFSCME LaborLinks - International Labor Unions and Associations
Public sector workers around the world are organised in trade unions — provided they are allowed to organise.
Union of Commercial and Clerical Employees in Denmark (HK/Kommunal)
The Norwegian Union of Social Educators and Social Workers
www.afscme.org /otherlnk/weblnk03.htm   (404 words)

  
 Transport and General Workers Union Regional, Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Claims to be the fastest growing trade union branch in the area.
8/162 Branch TGWU Homepage of Branch 8/162 of the Transport and General Workers Union based in the North East of England.
Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) The official site of the second largest union in the UK.
www.remanence.org /cmVtXzY5NjE0.aspx   (212 words)

  
 Homepage of the T&G section of Unite - the union - Britain and Ireland's biggest trade union
A national campaign is calling on companies like MandS to stop the exploitation of workers that is dividing communities and workplaces.
Unite assistant general secretary, Len McCluskey, said that talks have broken down between the union and the employers, Hoyer and Suckling.
Local government workers are demanding a proper and fair pay settlement.
www.tgwu.org.uk /homepage.asp?NodeID=88397   (332 words)

  
 International Transport Workers' Federation: Page of Remembrance
Our union and all affilates across horizon of Ethiopia feel a deep sorrow since ITF'S global family lost Richard who was hero and deeply committed to the interests of workers of all nationalities.
The Kenya Railway Workers Union, through your circular of 20th April, 2007, learned with deep regrets the death of Brother Richard Flint, your former assistant when you were head of the ITF Research and Publication Department in 1993 and until 1997 whilst in the communications Department.
Flint was deeply committed to the trade union movement and workers’ rights.  His commitment to the interests of the workers of all nationalities will always be remembered by the workers of all nationalities for year to come.
www.itfglobal.org /about-us/rflint2.cfm   (6929 words)

  
 Calderdale Trades Union Council - Transport and General Workers Union
The Transport and General Workers Union is the biggest general trade union with membership in all sectors of employment.
Our Union is the only trade union to have a dedicated office within Calderdale to service membership.
Calderdale is within Region 8 of the TGWU structure.
www.calderdaletuc.org.uk /tgwu.html   (99 words)

  
 The new Russian owner of sports car maker TVR hopes to bring the comrades in from the cold. The Transport & General ...
The Transport and General Workers Union said last night it had won recognition to negotiate on pay, hours and holidays.
The Central Arbitration Committee has given the go-ahead to the union to move ahead with the next stage, a ballot of the workforce.
But a union spokesman said: "I don't think he [Smolensky] would have gone to Blackpool and discussed minute details such as the canteen facilities if he was planning to do that [transfer work to Russia]."
www.russianlondon.com /uknews/news/21804   (337 words)

  
 Papers of the Transport and General Workers' Union 1862-1998   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The initial deposit of the Transport and General Workers' archive was made in April 1976.
A further addition includes: correspondence of James Sexton, 1913-38; a volume of minutes presented to Harry Gosling after the London transport workers' strike in 1911; correspondence files on the TGWU's relationship with the National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers, 1950-69, on the Port of Liverpool Staff Association, 1969-70, on civil defence, c.
The following Transport and General Workers' Union branch records are also held in the Centre: Coventry district and Rugby branch (MSS.208); 5/195 Black Country Transport branch (MSS.245); Rover Solihull 5/357 branch (MSS.356); and West Midlands region (MSS.251).
www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/126tgcl.htm   (617 words)

  
 Bill Morris, General Secretary, Transport & General Workers Union
Bill Morris is perhaps the UK's most respected Trades Union leader of the day, having held his present post since 1991.
Having joined the TGWU in 1958, he began to use the benefits of membership to improve his education, learn about trades unions, labour history, industrial law and health and safety.
His contribution to the trades union movement and to broader community has been recognised by many UK universities having a number of honorary degrees, being a member of court, or by serving as a governor.
www.lums.lancs.ac.uk /events/2948   (360 words)

  
 Leading Irish Officials suspended by Transport and General Workers Union
We publish this statement we received regarding the suspension of two leading officials of the Transport and General Workers' Union in Ireland.
As usual the bourgeois media have not reported about this attack on union democracy, with very few exceptions, such as the Irish Sunday Independent which published an article echoing the completely unfounded allegations by the TGWU leadership against the two officials ('Red herrings' claim in ATGWU suspension case).
We urge all TGWU members in Britain and Ireland to take up this issue and demand the reinstatement of the two suspended officials.
www.marxist.com /Europe/ireland_tgwu_suspensions.html   (832 words)

  
 Report of a Court of Inquiry into the causes and circumstances of the dispute at Birmingham Aluminium Castings Limited ...
All are either members of the Transport and General Workers' Union, or the National Society of Metal Mechanics.
Meetings were held with representatives of the interested parties, a visit having previously been paid to the works in the course of an earlier inquiry.
The company were asked to give their definition and the Unions have accepted this as a basis for negotiations with three conditions - necessary training will be given; workers will still be based in one department; and hydraulics men remain where they are.
www.bopcris.ac.uk /bopall/ref13332.html   (325 words)

  
 RMT - Home
RMT - the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers - is Britain's fastest growing trade union, representing more than 80,000 members in almost every sector of the transport industry, from mainline and underground rail to shipping and offshore, buses and road-freight.
Some 12,000 RMT maintenance workers are to strike at Network Rail from June 14 over the company's pathetic harmonisation proposals.
Hear general secretary Bob Crow's message to them at RMT TV.
www.rmt.org.uk   (447 words)

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