Link Up

Link Up is the magazine of York Trades Council, click below to read recent additions.

No.55 2011

  • Stop the Cuts

No.54 2011

  • TUC sets out alternative to cuts
  • York Stop The Cuts
  • York Disabled Workers Cooperative- Trade Unions Rally to Support
  • Osborne Judgement – York TUC1910

No.53 2010

Special on coalition cuts

No.52 2010

  • Trades Union Councils Programme of Work & Implementing
  • TUC Green Agenda
  • Budget Cuts
  • York TUC in 1910
  • First Cuts Services & Raises Fares

No.51 2010

  • Blossom Street
  • Unions in the Community – Web-site for Trades Union Councils
  • Yorkshire TUC Conference
  • York TUC in 1910
  • All Pain No Gain – Public Spending Cuts & the Economy

No.50 2009

  • Link Up
  • Passenger Focus remit for buses – York TUC response
  • Future jobs fund
  • Skills for growth – white paper

No.49 2009

  • 175th anniversary of the Tolpuddle Martyres
  • York TUC relocates
  • Regional TUC annual meeting
  • Transport – Buses and YTUC submission to OFT

No.48 2008

  • Local Transport Act 2008
  • City Centre Action Plan – YTUC response
  • Economy
  • Additional Bank Holiday

No.47 2008

  • Unions demand action on vulnerable workers rights
  • Employment services for disabled people
  • Government must act on bus services
  • Public support for public sector workers

No.46 2008

  • Minimum wage
  • Housing
  • Long hours
  • Eight hour day

No.45 2007

  • Future York Group report
  • Heath & Safety Reps
  • Construction deaths

No.44 2007

  • TUC rights leaflet
  • HSE and cuts
  • Pensions champions
  • Regional TUC AGM
  • Tackling climate change
  • Palestine

No.43 2006

  • York’s Industrial Meltdown
  • Local Development Framework
  • Employment Equality (Age) Regulations

No.42 2006

  • Workers Memorial Day
  • New Labour Laws
  • State Pensions

No.41 2005

  • Pensions
  • Local Transport Plan
  • York’s Declining Industry

No.40 2005


No.39 2005

  • Trade unionists remember asbestos victims
  • Norwegian Trade unionists visit York
  • Physios warn hurried women to slow down

No.38 2004

  • Car parking campaign
  • York TUC presses for affordable housing
  • Dissappointment over the government’s rejection for health and safety

No.37 2004

  • Parking charges special
  • Report on website launch
  • Quickie lunch breaks

No.36  2004

  • Yorkshire Assembly survey results
  • York TUC AGM
  • Parking charges
  • Live music threatened – Musician’s union
  • York Unity
  • York TUC website
  • Women’s Health & Safety – New guide
  • Stress – Rejected by IIAC
  • Railway safety
  • Pensions
  • Bank Holidays – Women lose out

No.35 2003

  • Learning Reps spell success
  • Scrooge Employers still not paying
  • Your say on a Yorkshire Parliament
  • Employer training pilot extended
  • Historic links need to be restored
  • Victory on safety laws

No.34 2003

  • Workers at boiling point
  • Employers ignore long hours
  • Fight against stress
  • Unions not being listened to
  • Managers fail to consult on productivity
  • Law at work
  • Paramedic visits New York
  • Railway

No.33 2003

  • Unions express concern over lack of support for industry
  • York Credit Union
  • York Central
  • York TUC AGM
  • Chemical industry controls
  • Vibration white finger
  • Unions should use their shares

No.32 2002

  • Mobile phones
  • Sickness
  • Firefighters dispute
  • Hugh Bayley
  • York central development

No.31 2002

  • Government must action to outlaw overwork
  • The Human Rights Act
  • Labour market information views sought
  • Newspaper union denied right to express views
  • Found of Labour Party
  • Non-members can get smart

No.30 2002

  • Shopping for a lawyer
  • Occupational asthma
  • Proposed relocation of City archive
  • Equal pay
  • Railway safety put under spotlight

No.29 2002

  • Septmeber 11 – Impact on York’s economy
  • Service industries grow, Manufacturing withers on the vine
  • Government has a responsibility for Manufacturing
  • Partnership works – TUC report
  • Dyson vacuum’s up worker jobs
  • York TUC supports the miners
  • Railway safety workers at risk
  • Bullying at work

No.28 2001

  • Pastoral support for people at work
  • Recession breaks glassworks
  • Staff must be protected from violence
  • Jimmy Knapp – Obituary

No.27 2001

  • It is so easy to sack people in Britain
  • Health & Safety – Future workers at risk?
  • Call centres are the new sweat shops
  • Trade unions optimistic in gaining recognition

No.26 2000

  • Is public transport all screwed up?
  • Sitting too long can delay families
  • TUC welcomes enforcement proposals
  • Government has to reduce fuel taxes
  • Tackling workplace stress
  • Transport plan goes to Government