USDAW

Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers

Union members vote to keep political funds

On Friday 12 November 2004, eight unions closed their political fund review ballots - ASLEF, BECTU, CATU, CWU, FBU, GMB, TSSA and USDAW. All achieved overwhelming yes votes, with an average 77% affirmative vote. This brings the total number of unions to achieve massive yes votes, in this the third round of review ballots, to 16. ASLEF - 80% yes on 49% turnout BECTU - 75% yes on 29% turnout CATU - 67% yes on 19% turnout CWU - 73% yes on 33% turnout FBU - 74% yes on 42% turnout GMB - 88% yes on 19% turnout TSSA - 78% yes on 26% turnout USDAW - 81% yes on 18% turnout. The RMT's political fund...

USDAW-Tesco sick pay deal

Giving away workers' rights By Mark Sandell The bosses have kicked off the holiday season with an offensive against sick workers. The bosses' union the CBI have released a report claiming that 15% of the sick days taken by workers are not authentic. The fact that the number of sick days hase been falling for five years and only rose this year was ignored. Also ignored was the shocking fact that British workers work the longest hours in western Europe. Basically the bosses want us all to drag ourselves into work when we are sick, infect everyone we work with and damage our health. What matter...

Industrial News

Terminal 5 strikes TGWU, GMB and UCATT members building Heathrow’s Terminal 5 struck on Friday 20 and Monday 23 January in their battle over bonuses with contractor Laing O’Rourke — despite claims in the bosses’ press that the action was being called off following a settlement. The strikers organised picket lines at half a dozen strategic locations in the environs of the airport. This was the second set of strikes which the workers have voted for in pursuit of an additional £1 an hour in bonus payments to bring them into line with others on site. The company offered an additional 22p in...

USDAW central office to grab branch funds?

Check out USDAW. A rule change proposed [through his lackeys] [by SIR Bill Connor] that this year's annual delegate meeting give control of branch funds to central office transferring a further 12.5 per cent to central office.

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