TUC Young Workers’ Month (November 2014) helped raise the already-high profile of youth activity within the CWU. People all around the union responded actively to the encouragement they were…Read more…
Qatar 2022: Construction firms accused amid building boom
BBC Newsnight carried a superb piece on conditions in Qatar and international complicity in them. The iPlayer piece is (currently) here Below is an article with an embedded, shorter, video. By Sue…Read more…
Are in-work benefits in the UK a magnet for EU migrants?
Should the UK be aiming to restrict access to benefits for citizens of other EU countries who are working here? The Prime Minister made this objective the centrepiece of his recent speech on migration: ‘Someone coming to the UK from elsewhere in the EU, who is employed on the minimum wage and who…Read more…
Yet more government-induced hunger pains
Earlier this year I questioned why people in the sixth richest country in the world were becoming increasingly dependant on food banks. It’s heartbreaking to be asking the same question in the lead…Read more…
Lima Diary 3: The right to union recognition at #COP20
What trade unions are basically looking for here at #COP20 in Lima is union recognition, and with that, the right to represent our members. In a sense this is no more complicated than any struggle be it among contract cleaners, cinema workers, or in th…Read more…
A Left Platform for the Election?
http://l-r-c.org.uk/news/story/a-left-platform-for-the-election/
John McDonnell is right, in the link above, that there is a sizeable constituency with an appetite for the policies to the left of the main parties.
As a local government trade unionist i…Read more…
D—Day – Hendon Town Hall – Tuesday 16 December 2014
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Ruling the Void
Ruling the Void, a posthumous sort of finished book by Peter Mair, is one of the most interesting things I have read recently. It covers similar issues to Colin Crouch’s Post-Democracy but with a) some analysis of electoral behaviour to underpin the ar…Read more…
Christmas YCB care workers get together
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Barnet UNISON extends an invitation to all who are supporting our YCB care workers campaign.
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Early Day Motion in support of our Interserve Members at Waterloo
Nice to see Early Day Motion has been tabled at Parliament, in support of our Interserve members at Waterloo.
http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2014-15/593
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Teachers don’t want Ofsted to be popular, they just want it to be valid, fair and reliable. It’s not.
By Mary Bousted Sir Michael Wilshaw should not be worried that Ofsted is unlikely to win any popularity contests. Teachers and school leaders set a low bar for the agency. They merely want the school…Read more…
Cross-party MPs say benefit delays cause hunger
A cross-party group of MPs have been conducting a wide ranging inquiry into hunger in the UK, and their report is out today.Read more…
Austerity – Just Say No!
‘Even if the government/OBR forecasts for the scale of the cuts prove to be unworkable they amount to a plan for permanent austerity, of ever deeper cuts. They are also a Tory trap for Labour, which…Read more…
“You Cannot Pick & Mix Which Human Rights to Respect” National Express LAPFF14
The President of the USA Teamsters Union, James Hoffa, sent a video message to the LAPFF conference to thank them for our support in their campaign to stop the North American arm of British company National Express’s union busting.
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The 23 Enigma – three stories
I’m a Discordian – which means nothing other than I think religion is a joke, so I claim membership of a joke religion. One of the articles of faith, in a religion that believes nothing, is that there’s something going on with the number 23. Or maybe there isn’t, or maybe there…Read more…
Cherie Blair CBE QC “how better business practice can drive both market & social returns” LAPFF14
Picture of Guest Speaker at LAPFF conference, Cherie Blair, with the youngest member of the Newham Council Pension Committee (and possibly in the entire UK?) Cllr Seyi Akiwowo.
Cherie spoke about how when she started to practise law, human rights was …Read more…
Engagement Panel at LAPFF14
The next item at the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) conference was a panel on “engagement” with Cllr Kieran Quinn GMPF, Chair Sir Merrick Cockell, Cllr Richard Greening LBI and Cllr Cameron Rose LPF.
Investor engagement is probably …Read more…
LAPFF Conference 2014: Public Funds & Public Purpose
Yesterday I came back from the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) conference. I will post more on the conference later on.
It was I think the best attended LAPFF conference I have been to which reflects the huge changes and chellenges that the…Read more…
Modern Slavery Bill: take action on Monday
The TUC is working with a range of corporate accountability and anti-slavery campaign groups and NGOs, including the Ethical Trading Initiative, to strengthen the Modern Slavery Bill, which is now…Read more…
Lima Diary 2: Groundhog day for ‘just transition’ at #COP20
The #1 objective of the ITUC delegation here in Lima is to ensure the UN honours its commitment to a Just Transition in the negotiating text now in draft form. The UN first made this decision five years ago this month in Cancun. Back then, the 16th ann…Read more…