UK glass workers’ strike wins pay deal16 July, 2014Unite the Union members at Tyneside Safety Glass in Gateshead, England, went on strike for three weeks in response to management’s miserly wage offer in June and July. The workers’ action won a good new contract and members returned to work on 14 July.
Support for UNITE glass workers on strike in North East England10 July, 2014Around 100 members of IndustriALL’s largest UK affiliate, Unite the Union, are on a two-week strike at Tyneside Safety Glass after rejecting a tiny pay increase. The company director just awarded himself a 14 per cent pay rise and transferred £750,000 company money into a trust fund in his name.
UK glass workers ready to strike27 June, 2014IndustriALL affiliate Unite the Union has called a strike action at two sites of Tyneside Safety Glass, maker of laminated glass. Unite announced the two week strike, due to start on Monday 30 June, after talks with the company broke down.
Strike action called off as workers agree a deal18 June, 2014Workers at Optare, a Leeds-based bus and coach manufacturer, have settled their dispute over an enforced summer shut down following lengthy negotiations.
Glass workers strike over ‘paltry’ pay offer 17 June, 2014Workers at two sites of the UK company Tyneside Safety Glass are on strike this week over ‘a paltry and insulting’ pay offer.
Unite workers at Babcock approve new agreement4 April, 2014The labour dispute between IndustriALL UK affiliate Unite members at Faslane and Coulport royal navy facilities and their employer Babcock has successfully finished after three weeks of industrial action.
Interim tribunal rules that Mark Lyon is ‘likely’ to get job back at Ineos 12 March, 2014An interim tribunal said sacked Ineos worker and trade unionist Mark Lyon is ‘likely’ to get his job back when the case reaches the full hearing later on in the year. Petrochemical giant Ineos was also ordered to pay Mark Lyon full wages since February until the hearing.
Unions building global power against attacks by Crown Holdings26 February, 2014Trade unions from Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and UK met on 25 February in Switzerland to confront the anti-union strategy of Crown Holdings, an American multinational packaging company.
Unilever alienating workers in South Africa and UK12 February, 2014Trade unions continue to rally against the anti-union management policies of food and chemical giant Unilever. IndustriALL joins IUF in condemning latest anti-worker in the UK and South Africa.
Ineos sacks Unite convenor on sham charges in Grangemouth, UK7 February, 2014IndustriALL stands with Unite to denounce the 4 February sacking of Unite Convenor Mark Lyon by Ineos in Grangemouth, Scotland.
