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NEW GENERAL SECRETARY ELECTED

On October 18 at a special delegate general council meeting a new General Secretary for the GFTU was elected.

Doug Nicholls, who’s backround was in the Communiy & Youth Workers Union who went on to become part of UNITE, won the vote by a clear majority over other candidate, Alan Irwin. Doug will take over after current GS Michael Bradley retires.

GFTU EDUCATION PROGRAMMES FOR 2012 NOW OUT

Now out as full detailed programme or poster of course dates.

Clink on links below for copies.

 831450716_et_booklet_2012.pdf

927774072_et_poster_2012.pdf

SUPPORT REMPLOY - SIGN THE PETITION

Once again all 54 Remploy factories are under threat of closure when current public funding ends in April 2013. Closing Remploy is the aim of conflicted axe grinders who want the funding for themselves. Another threat is that the factories are rendered less economic being only 50% loaded because public bodies have failed to support them with work as allowed under EU rules.

It would cost Treasury less to keep the factories operating fully loaded rather than putting the workers out of work on welfare. The majority of Remploy workers who lost their jobs in 2008 are still on welfare 3 years later.

The crucial campaign objective is to get the loading up to 100% and to keep these factories open.

EXECUTIVE PAY RISES 50%

Total earnings for senior executives in the UK’s FTSE 100 companies have seen massiove pay rises over the past year.. Whilst workers pay has slumped, chief executives received an annual jump of 43.5 per cent to £3,855,172, finance directors of 34.1 per cent to £2,001,515 and all other directors of almost two-thirds (66.5 per cent) to £2,260,033.

The statistics come from.es Data Services (IDS).Further research by the organisation found that the median pay settlement for those working in private businesses rose over the quarter to September to 2.6 per cent from 2.5 per cent during the three months to August, while private sector deals remained at zero for the same period. 

RUSKIN TOP OUT

Ruskin College has just held its topping out ceremony on the new extension now being built on their Headington Hall site. 
It is all change for the college with the new build, due to be completed in September 2012, Headington will become Ruskin’s new home. The move away from Oxford city center to their larger Ruskin Hall/Stoke site in Old Headington comes after the college sold its old site in Walton Street to Oxford University’s Exeter College . 
 
 

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New booklets on employment rights for vulnerable workers

GFTU ET and the other project partners have worked with Thompsons Solicitors to produce a range of booklets to assist those looking at rights for vulnerable workers.

The booklets can be accessed by clicking on the link below -

GFTU Logo

This GFTU logo was an updated version of the original Walter Crane design, which was made  for the new GFTU in 1899. The updated version was produced in 1930-1 when the Federation moved into its own purpose built Central House.

This design was on a plaque on the front of the building and was brought in and restored in 2008 by a specialist metal restorer. The current chain logo was produced in the early 1970s.