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Campaigns Companies Editorial Equality Get Involved Legal Services Letters Member services People and Events Recruitment and Organising Campaigns
Members who receive Tax Credits have been urged not to panic as news of overpayments have hit the headlines. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Labour MPs show they care about carers The Spotlight Day on Carers went down a storm at the House of Commons in June with more than 60 Labour MPs joining a team of campaigners to publicise the difficulties faced by the UK’s small army of working carers. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] National campaign puts union on its Marks Fresh from its success in the North West Usdaw has launched a national recruitment campaign at key Marks and Spencer’s stores in the union’s other six divisions. The decision came after hundreds of workers signed up at stores in the North West and many other workers across the UK expressed an interest in joining the union. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Spotlight on working parents The pressures faced by working parents will be the theme of the next Spotlight Day in September with issues like childcare, flexible working and family-friendly policies top of the union’s agenda. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Union calls for proof of age ID The Government should introduce a proof of age scheme to protect shopworkers from underage youths trying to buy restricted products and should prevent retail staff from being given on-the-spot fines from police carrying out ‘sting’ operations. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Companies
The latest news on Matalan, Sainsbury’s distribution and Dixons 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Membership injection at Chiron Usdaw is known throughout the UK as the shopworkers’ union, but it’s a misleading title with around 90,000 members employed outside of the retail sector. Transport/distribution, home shopping, food manufacturing, to name but a few, make up large blocks of the union’s membership. However, probably the least well-known Usdaw sector contains the pharmaceutical membership who have a long and proud history in Usdaw and have a bright future ahead of them. Arena visited the Usdaw reps at the Chiron Vaccines site 3 in Liverpool to find out more. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Tesco pay rise Members at Tesco will get a pay rise in excess of inflation of at least 3.1 per cent after the union’s national forum agreed a new deal with the UK’s biggest retailer. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Editorial
We’ve been putting a lot of effort into supporting the Marks and Spencer recruitment drive with some success in terms of attracting media coverage and increasing membership, writes Media Officer Paul Clarke. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Seasonal workers need Usdaw’s support With the holiday season in full swing Usdaw members will hopefully be taking their long awaited and well deserved summer break. Good holiday entitlement is an essential part of the employment package and thanks to the Labour Government all workers are entitled to at least 20 days holiday a year. Labour made a manifesto commitment to increase this to 28 by preventing employers including the eight bank holidays as part of the 20. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Equality
One of the friendliest events in the union’s calendar is the black members weekend which meets annually at the union’s national training centre in Warrington. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Get Involved
There is a special prize of a luxury weekend break for the member who sends a picture of themselves reading Arena while on holiday. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Legal Services
Read how these Usdaw members benefited from our Legal Plus service. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] What is Legal Plus? This is the union’s free legal service available to members the minute they join Usdaw. See below for further details: 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Letters
From John Crick, Area Organiser, Plymouth. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Branch Officers course From Linda Hogg, Northern General Retail F87. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Cash for cancer charity walk From Janie Carruth, Glasgow Miscellaneous G111. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Condolences sent for Scottish activist From Alan McVie, Area Organiser, Glasgow. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Congratulations to Valerie From Lynn Jones, secretary, C88 Norwich and Mid Norfolk. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Federation weekend supports parents and carers From David Fairburn, West Midlands Kwik Save E130. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Labour’s win boosted by Usdaw campaign materials From Peter Yeo, secretary, Swindon & Newbury General H83. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Respect paid to ADM Pat From Adrian Lane, chair, Mid Sussex General HO23. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Time to cut back on holiday working (star letter) From Alan Trainer, Northern Private Trades F176. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Usdaw seals ace sponsorship deal From Mike Aylward, area organiser, Warrington. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Usdaw solicitors are here to help From David Manning, South East Kent H84. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Usdraw pays out! From Pat Frost, Deputy Divisional Officer, Warrington. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Member services
Activist Peter Capper was £100 better off thanks to Usdaw’s deal with Britannia Building Society. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Usdaw member benefits Usdaw provides a range of popular member benefits including: 11 July 2005 [Full Story] People and Events
Young members are the future of Usdaw and in a regular feature on youth activists Arena looks to find out what makes them tick, and takes the pulse of union members aged 26 and below. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Campaigning union wins top award – again! Protecting Christmas Day won Usdaw the prestigious TUC Best Trade Union Campaign for 2004 – the second consecutive year the union has won the coveted prize. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Centuries of service on display in Plymouth Long serving members were the toast of the South Wales and Western division earlier this year when eight loyalists celebrated more than 280 years of Usdaw membership. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Executive hand over Usdaw is losing one of its longest serving members of staff when Executive and Administration Officer Frank Murphy retires on July 22, but his experience is being replaced by John McGarry who is the union’s longest serving Divisional Officer. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] National Youth Weekend - be there Understanding the union and enjoying some serious socialising is on offer to young members at the annual National Youth Weekend. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] New role beckons for Mike Succeeding John McGarry as Divisional Officer is Warrington based Area Organiser Mike Aylward. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Recruitment and Organising
Now in its third year the Usdaw Academy is taking energetic reps out of their workplaces and giving them a six months secondment of training, and hands-on experience of recruitment and organising in shops and factories across the UK. Arena caught up with two organising officers from this year’s intake and found out they are making a real impact just weeks into their new venture. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Gold for Garrie as he forges ahead Warehouseman Garrie Edwards deservedly picked up the 2004 Individual Recruitment Award for Southern division after organising his workplace, Golden West Foods, suppliers to the burger chain McDonalds. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Recruit a Friend Play your part in helping to build the union. Think of a number and double it – well that’s exactly what would happen to Usdaw’s membership if every union member recruited just one colleague each. The union would jump from its current 340,000 to 680,000 in a matter of weeks. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Reps cash in on Tesco/Usdaw partnership deal Tesco stock controller Susan Coutts is the pride of Scotland after she won the 2004 National Recruitment Award for her outstanding success. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Stand down to sign up Tesco team leader Angelique Audas had a ‘fantastic time’ in her first three weeks of stand down recruiting. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Taking the message to new members Tens of thousands of workers join Usdaw every year but behind these figures is a small army of hard-working reps. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] Your Argos generation With more than 49,000 members aged under 26, young reps are the key to Usdaw’s future success. Arena takes a look at the huge impact Argos reps are making. 11 July 2005 [Full Story] |
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