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  05 March 2014 The decision of the Labour Party Special Conference on March 1 to adopt the proposals of the Collins review sets the collective relationship of Unite and other affiliated unions with...

  Speaking to the annual meeting of the DGB – the German equivalent of the TUC – in Berlin today (Wednesday), TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady will urge stronger links between the 12 million...

Last month I went "home" to North Wales to help my sisters move my Mum to a new sheltered flat in Ruthin from Denbigh. I had a couple of hours to kill so drove over the lovely Clywdian hills to Buckley. I was brought up in Buckley, Flintshire until I was about 15 years old and the family moved...

The treaty of Rome was all about the free movement of labour and capital. It’s central to EU policy. Free movement of capital is at the heart of the Single Market. It means the ability for Capitalist...

The Gloucester Amal branch has a reputation as a campaigning organisation with a progressive outlook.  Your branch’s contribution to the national union is greatly valued. Perhaps the biggest impact...

On Tuesday 11 March, the finance ministers of the European Union meet in Brussels as ECOFIN. And the finance ministers of the 11 EU countries committed to introduce a financial transactions tax (FTT)...

  Island Roads is a partnership made up of VINCI Concessions, Meridiam Infrastructure and Ringway, providing a highway maintenance service for the Isle of Wight Council from April 2013 to 2038. VINCI...

The campaign for a Robin Hood Tax has been very successful in Europe, with 11 countries likely to agree a multi-lateral financial transactions tax (FTT) before the European Parliament elections in May. British politicians have (apart from a pointless attempt by George Osborne to lawyer up) largely...

At the very first public meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), last year, the Prime Minister’s special envoy Ken Clarke MP said that the negotiations shouldn’t be allowed to drag on too long, or people would find out...

#betterwaydemo The TUC’s Yorkshire and the Humber region has organised a demonstration in York today where the Liberal Democrats are holding their Spring Conference. The protest against the...

The nurse coming off her shift at the psychiatric ward nodding over the Post, her surprisingly delicate legs shining darkly through the white hospital stockings, and the Puerto Rican teens,...

The predominantly female garment workers of Cambodia will be protesting in Freedom park, Phnom Penh on Saturday, International Women’s Day. Their main concern is low wages, but they are also...

In what passes for political debate in Scotland at present, universalism is often presented in absolutist terms, when in practice the position is more nuanced. Johann Lamont's, admittedly badly...

Ineos needs to start treating its workforce with respect and ensure no trade union officials are victimised said Unite, as an interim employment tribunal ruled today (Friday 7 March) in favour of the...

Next week the TUC will hold the eighty fourth TUC Women’s Conference, an important occasion in the trade union calendar when around 300 women nominated by their trade unions debate the issues of greatest importance to women workers in the UK and globally. This year’s agenda includes a motion on...

If “the crash has reshaped our economy,” the Fabians have now provided a blueprint on How Labour can change Britain. Its ideas for Labour draw on the key contributions to its New Year 2014 conference. Public funding on R&D as % of GDP: from Greening the Recovery The 10 essays “challenge...

The SLEP is not fit for purpose. The allocation of Strategic funding and Assisted Area Status has not been seen to be fair. The EU guidelines are not followed and strings are pulled for political...

On 7 March, rail campaigners gathered to protest against  government plans to re-privatise the East Coast Main Line, at 16 stations along the line. The protest coincided with the start of the Lib Dem...