UnionNews
By UnionNews
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Podcast Description
UnionNews is a new UK-based website devoted to reporting the activity, the battles and the campaigns of trade unionists and their working lives.
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PODCAST: It’s back to the ’70s if Beecroft gets his way – ‘one strike and you’re out’ | Reporting this week from API Foils strike, PCS annual conference and we hear from Doreen Lawrence, mother of the murdered black teenager, Stephen Lawrence. | 28 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CBeebies and Matilda – the next generation of union members? | Equity is to allow child performers as young as ten to join the union. Also this week: Carillion blacklisting and recruiting young unemployed workers into Unite | 20 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PODCAST: Voices from #M10 – “This was just a taster strike” | Reporting from picket lines in Bristol and London, we hear from the frontline of the second, national coordinated day for strike action over public sector pensions | 13 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May Day 2012 – getting together, fighting together | Writer Owen Jones on May Day - and whether 2012 Olympics have provided promised jobs for local youth in London | 7 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Where’s Danny Alexander when you need him? | On the Podcast: Pensions, Post Office privatision, youth unemployment and booting the BNP out of the Fire Service | 30 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Remploy, rights and a Jubilee strike | The Remploy Day of Action against closures; a BBC strike on Jubilee day; and employment tribunal charges which could cost workers their right to justice and fairness | 23 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Picture this – for a safe and healthy workplace | We speak to workers made redundant at Visteon on the 3-year campaign to recoup their pensions - and how pictures & cartoons can make life safer for foreign-language building workers. | 15 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Tolpuddle to Shrewsbury, courtrooms to fesitvals | The unjust jailing of union activists is a story as old as the movement itself. Surviving Shrewsbury pickets lodge a formal appeal as the programme is launched for Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2012. | 8 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Teachers say ‘pensions fight isn’t over’ | Reporting from the NUT, UCU and Unite industrial action over pensions in London on #M28 and on a teachers strike in Nottingham against 5-terms-a-year plans | 1 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tories are destroying the life chances of a generation | STUC protest against youth unemployment hears Coalition is "radicalising a generation, because it's our generation whose life chances they are destroying". | 25 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Episodes |
