30 April 2013

By Andrew Brady A nation that traditionally has had a more collegiate tone to industrial relations epitomised through co-determination has been shaken over the last few weeks after a wave of industrial unrest that has hit Germany. In a high profile success for German postal workers after the threat of industrial strikes their union Verdi [...]

11 March 2013

By Andrew Brady Greece is in a humanitarian crisis. I’ve often thought that surely the various European Governments and institutions would not allow a situation to develop that would leave society in many areas on the brink of collapse – but today I can only conclude they don’t. What is far more important is the [...]

28 February 2013

By Andrew Brady When Émile Durkheim popularised the word anomie in ‘Suicide‘ (1897) it took on the connotations of a reaction against or a retreat from societal controls particularly when the economic standards of a country were dramatically reduced. The first time I heard the word anomie used in association with Greece is when the [...]

20 February 2013

By Andrew Brady Today the people of Greece take to the streets to vent their fury at the imposition of austerity and the dismantling of society in a General Strike. At Union Solidarity International we want to express our wholehearted support, solidarity and admiration for the exhausted people of Greece. The Greek Government’s appeasement of [...]

16 January 2013

By Nagia Nikolaou The two Troikas in Greece, the tripartite government and the representatives of the lenders, jointly decided with an orderly plan the worst possible scenario for the Hellenic Post Bank (HPB). Despite the BLACK ROCK evaluation results that showed HPB to be in a much better position than the so-called ”systemic banks”, they will [...]

9 January 2013

By Andrew Brady Yesterday’s European unemployment figures are truly devastating. There’s no other word that can encapsulate the broken dreams and hardships that tens of millions of people across the continent of Europe are enduring. The Eurozone unemployment rate hit a new record high of 11.8% in November leaving some 18.82 million people out of [...]

16 November 2012

By Alain Parguez The free choice of disaster: A unique situation in history A definition: The race to poverty Modern Austerity Programmes (MAP) reflect the permanent effort of the State to impose increasing levels of poverty on society. On the one side MAP forces society to live more and more below what could be deemed its [...]

13 November 2012

The TUC Executive Committee agreed to encourage UK unions and their members to take the following actions: Join Coalition of Resistance rally and march starting from Smith Square at 5pm (London) – and, if you are able to, sending a delegation to the Belgian trade union rally in Brussels on Wednesday 14 November from 12 [...]