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 [...]

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 November 2012

Yesterday we held a web conference with eminent Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis, author of The Global Minotaur. Yanis spoke about the Eurozone crisis, and how political paralysis on both sides of the Atlantic is paralysing the policy responses needed to address the crisis. Only citizens’ activism – such as the strikes and demonstrations of the [...]

17 October 2012

By Stathis Trachanatzis The Government of the Market The leaders that support the tripartite Greek government are absolutely obedient to the commands of their bosses. They appear in the media as working long hours, even weekends. They give the impression that they work without limits and timetables. Just as they envisage the working present and [...]

3 July 2012

By Andrew Brady The labour movement in Europe faces its most important battle arguably since its creation.  It’s not sensationalist to make such a statement. There is a global assault on organised labour. The epicentre of an economic agenda that is getting rolled-out on the  continent of Europe is Greece. For some this agenda is [...]

2 July 2012

Watch our web conference with Herr Flassbeck here. BY Heiner Flassbeck Europe is on the brink of a potentially lethal crisis. A dozen years after the start of the European Monetary Union (EMU) the system is in troubled water and the political leaders, blinded by an anti-government ideology are steering the boat towards some dangerous rocks [...]

28 June 2012

A breaking story from the United States is a divided Supreme Court upheld President Obama’s health-care law ruling that its key provision – an “individual mandate” to buy health insurance – is constitutional under Congress’s taxing authority. In a victory for President Obama the Republicans in Congress and presidential challenger Mitt Romney have vowed to [...]