Making Britain work
Workers' rights are human rights
With 1.5 million members in workplaces across Britain and
Ireland Unite is Britain’s biggest union and is there for its
members. Across the country there are countless reps providing
valuable advice on workplace issues, negotiating with management,
making sure health and safety rules are followed, supporting
training and education and ensuring equality in the workplace. But
union reps are under attack by the Con-Dem government. Recently
there's been the setting up of the so-called Trade Union Reform
campaign which is anything but, a spurious report by the Taxpayers’
Alliance calling for unions to be frozen out of the public sector,
and a 10 minute rule bill put forward by the proponent of not very
‘Compassionate Conservatism’ Jesse Norman MP, it fell at the first
hurdle.
The government’s attack on trade union time sees:
- Tory MPs calling for an end to full time union work in the
public sector;
- Tory MPs calling for the end to paid time off for union reps
supporting workers;
- Tory MPs calling for the funds for union learning and
modernisation to be scrapped.
It’s time to tell the Tories that unions won’t be threatened and
that workers' rights are human rights. The work of union reps saves
companies up to £1.1 billion every year, more than 6.7 million
people belong to a union and of those 200,000 are actively engaged
in representing and supporting their workplace colleagues.
Your workplace rights and reps are under threat, it’s time to
defend them
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