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Palestine Blog

Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of PCS is currently visiting Palestine as part of a delegation hosted by the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions. Each day Mark will post his reflections on the visit which can be accessed here.

New Union Promotional DVD

It’s got the wow factor ! It’s a great recruitment tool. It’s very informative about what the union offers. A great new DVD has been produced about the union and its relevance to youth, community, play and other related workers. This is the ideal tool that members have requesting for many years to assist with recruitment meetings. It should be shown at all Branch meetings and more importantly shared with non members and students to get them to join. You can preview the DVD here on the website and free copies can be ordered from CYWU Section Office. 

Online Petitions

Save Vauxhall Campaign - With 5,000 skilled jobs hanging in the balance at Vauxhall’s plants at Ellesmere Port and Luton, and the 20,000 more across the supply chain that also depend on Vauxhall, we need our government to get involved. Thousands of people across the country have already signed up to the campaign calling for government action to save the thousands of jobs at Ellesmere Port and Luton. Joint general secretaries, Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley ask you to do the same. Sen a message to Gordon Brown today.

ETUC Petition on Public Services - Unite is fully supporting the ETUC petition demanding high quality services accessible to all. Public services are essential for social, economic and regional cohesion in Europe and such services must be of high quality and accessible to everyone. Until now, the only options put forward for developing public services have been privatisation or liberalisation (namely in sectors such as energy, postal services and telecommunications). It is time to find different solutions! Sign the petition here.

Trident: Sign the CND petition - The future of the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system is of great national and international importance and will have implications for decades to come. CND says No Trident Replacement - Yes to a Nuclear Weapons Convention. Sign the online petition here.

Say No to Ford and Visteon Sacking without Pay - Over 600 loyal Visteon workers were sacked with only moments’ notice and denied redundancy pay and the pensions they’d saved years for. Unite believes Ford were complicit in this action. Now hundreds of workers and their families face a future with no income, no job and no pensions. We need you to sign the petition today and make sure your colleagues and friends do the same. This shameful behaviour has to end – now. We need to show the UK Government that the British people demand justice for our workers. Sign the petition here.