Well done to all concerned. A good result all round.
Workers at Cision Media monitoring have voted overwhelmingly for Unite to represent them for collective bargaining. The employees recorded a massive 95% in favour of a ballot vote of 76 for any and 4 against.
This has been a long drawn out process with petitions being held and lots of hard work carried out by Tony Newbery, Regional Officer and Senior Shop Floor Reps, Karen Barber and Eddie Connelly.
Steve Sibbald, Unite National Officer, said "Time and again when people are given the opportunity of voting for Trade Union Representation and Collective Rights there is almost always overwhelming support when there is no management intimidation. Congratulations to all those Reps and Members who put in all the work."
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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