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The criteria for being an independent trade union, free from employer influence and domination, are set out in the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 section 5. The body which oversees unions, and awards a certificate of independence for the purpose of collective bargaining is the Trades Union Certification Officer .
Along with the £12m gap in government funding offers - equivalent to just over 2.5 per cent of the entire £450m deal - AstraZeneca cited “timing” as another reason for rejecting the deal.
One example is the initiation fee, a fee charged by the union to the worker when the employee first joins the union. The initiation fee covers the administrative costs of joining the union. Fees may, however, be ongoing. For example, a union program (such as a welfare or benefit fund) may be offered only to those union members who pay a regular ...
A packet of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine vials. A dispute broke out in January 2021 between the European Commission and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca AB about the provision of COVID-19 vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic, [1] and, in February, spilled out into a dispute over Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol.
In February 2021, the situation in the European Union due to the pandemic was worsening, as the lockdown continued, people kept dying, and the union's biggest vaccine supplier, AstraZeneca, was having production problems, which caused a shortage of doses.
The UK's rollout was among the fastest in the world with among the highest uptake in its first few months, [2] although vaccination rates had slowed down or plateaued by autumn 2021 due to lower uptake in younger age groups. [5] [6] Polling suggests the UK's level of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is among the world's lowest. [7] [8]
Zeneca (officially Zeneca Group PLC) was a British multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.It was formed in June 1993 by the demerger of the pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals businesses of Imperial Chemical Industries into a separate company listed on the London Stock Exchange.
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, [1] such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of ...