Take part in Unite's campaign to give workers in companies that have been bought out by private equity consortiums TUPE protections
This campaign follows hot on the heels of the success of the Agency Workers Private Members Bill, Unite is giving its backing to a second Private Members Bill that would give workers in companies that have been bought out by private equity consortiums TUPE protections.
Currently TUPE protections for workers and rights to information and consultation do not apply in cases of private equity buyouts and the number of workers affected is increasing rapidly with one in five private sector workers in the UK already employed by private equity concerns.
Help us win backing for John Heppell MP’s Bill that will give transparency to millions of workers by asking your MP to attend the bill’s second hearing on Friday 7 March.
Download the model letter @:
http://www.amicustheunion.org/Default.aspx?page=8041
To email your MP go to www.theyworkforyou.com
About Tony Burke
Tony Burke is an Assistant General Secretary at the UK and Ireland's biggest trade union, Unite the Union.
Unite was formed on 1st May, 2007 by a merger of Amicus and TGWU. He heads up the Unite GPM sector, leading a team of experienced full time National and Regional Officers covering the Print, Paper, Packaging, Newspapers, Publishing and Media industries.
Tony was Deputy General Secretary of the print, paper and media union the GPMU until it merged, with the skills and professional union Amicus in 2004. Tony is a member of the General Council and Executive Committee of the TUC and also a number of senior committee’s of the global union Union Network International (UNI) Graphical; a member of the Executive Committee of the European Chemical, Energy and Mineworkers Federation; the chair of the TUC's Organising Academy Board; a member of the board of Vision In Print And Packaging and a trade union appointed member of the board of COGENT - the sector skills council for the Chemical, Oil, Pharmaceutical, Energy and Nuclear Industries. He is also a member of the Board Of Management of The Peoples Press Printing Society.
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