The festive season may be over but UK pensions policy continues to pull in two directions like a comedy pantomime horse. It seems that Pensions Minster Steve Webb had his eggnog spiked by his market-obsessed Treasury colleagues because his first post-Christmas outing was to propose a new trade in…Read more…
2015: Reasons to be Cheerful
Colleagues,
Have returned to Ruskin from the Christmas break and, as it is as hectic as ever, I am copping out slightly of writing an original first post for 2015, by referencing a great article written In These Times just before the en…Read more…
Iraqi unions build protest on jobs, wages and union rights
2015 began with a fresh new wave of industrial action across Iraq (apart from Iraqi Kurdistan) organised by the national trade union centre, the GFITU. The action centred on several demands,…Read more…
Planned future spending cuts return us to the Geddes Axe of the 1920s
On the basis of the OBR projections for future spending cuts, the only more severe consolidation in over a century was the Geddes Axe of 1921-23. That these disastrous policies are the nearest precedent for any prospective economic action beggars belief.Read more…
New Picturehouse to pay Living Wage: Let’s push for all of them!
Significant development in BECTU’s campaign to win living wages for all workers in the Picturehouse cinemas.Read more…
National minimum wage – no hiding place for cheapskate bosses
The TUC today called for enforcement of the minimum wage to be greatly strengthened and published a 10-point plan for strengthening this vital legal protection during the next parliament. We have welcomed the improvements already made by successive gov…Read more…
Time for an ethical energy policy
The £8m short term government loan for employee-owned Hatfield colliery, Yorkshire, is a welcome move by the government to protect hundreds of skilled jobs. But that such a loan is needed at all reflects the government’s failure to develop a long term strategy for UK coal in our energy mix,…Read more…
Brain washed morons pretending they are doing God’s work.
“We stand in solidarity with France against this evil attack by terrorists intent on attacking our democratic way of life & freedom of speech”. Well said Ed (Miliband). Read more…
Unions condemn the Charlie Hebdo killings
As crowds gathered in cities across France and beyond today, standing in solidarity with those attacked at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, journalists’ unions expressed their shock and…Read more…
West Ham Labour January update – General Election just 120 days away (& debate on Syria)
“Happy 2015… It’s only seven days into the new year and already voters can’t have failed to notice there’s a General Election coming.
The Tories have already published a false dossier on Labour’s plans and the NHS is in crisis.
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UNISON National Executive Council elections – under starter’s orders…
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Radio 4 on illegal pay for home care
Some good news – over 10,000 people now have joined UNISON’s petition urging Vince Cable to name and shame the criminal care employers who are illegally denying up to 220,000 care workers…Read more…
Welcome to Barnet UNISON 2015
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Why?
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/A-Garland-for-May-Day-1895-Posters_i1864412_.htm
This link takes you to Walter Crane’s “Garland for the Workers” which expresses some of the hopes which I think our movement was created to keep alive.
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Fat Cat Tuesday
Today 6 January is “Fat Cat Tuesday” By only the 2nd working day of the first month of the year, the average CEO of a FTSE 100 company will have received more pay that the average UK worker will earn in the entire year.
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2015 time to finish off Austerity Politics
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What does privatisation look like in Barnet?
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Save Barnet Libraries Campaign
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BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS – INTERSERVE WATERLOO
Circular No IR/04/15 To All Branches, Regional Offices & Regional Councils Our Ref: BR1/14/18th January 2015 Dear…Read more…
Interserve Strike Action
From RMT Press Office.
Rail union RMT said today that a further phase of strike action by cleaners working for Interserve at Waterloo, due to start tomorrow at 5am, has been suspended to allow…Read more…