“Brendan had one of the highest profiles of any trade union official in the country as leader of Right2Water; [he was] the leader of very many other campaigns, so to see Brendan being humiliated in the way he was after the way he came back from cancer to do ...
After his election in May 2010, Mr Dromey said he was resigning as Unite’s deputy general secretary and had ‘declined my salary in the meantime’. In fact, he continued to work for the union part time, charging up to £200 an hour for several months. Mr Dromey was paid more than...
[pounds sterling]504.The disclosure comes as members of the union, which represents many of the lowest-paid workers most affected by the economic downturn, are voting on his campaign to win re-election as leader of the Amicus half of Unite.The voting, which is halfway through, will ...
unionhasbeenoneoftheleadingadvocatesofgettingtoughoncrime.Theresultofthispolicyhasbeenadramaticincreaseinboththesizeofthestate'sprison-industrialcomplex(from12prisonsin1980to33in2000)andthepayofthepeoplewhorunit(prisonguardsin2006made$70,000ayearinbasesalaryand$100,000withovertime).Butpublic-sectorunionscan...