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TUC: HolocaustMemorialDay

Jan 29, 2015By Rtuc's Blog

#HolocaustMemorialDay 2015: Remember the holocaust 27 Jan 2015, By Frances O’Grady This Holocaust Memorial Day the spotlight is on the worrying growth of anti-semitism in Britain and elsewhere…Read more…

Jan 29, 2015Rtuc's Blog

Why is BusinessEurope doing the banks’ dirty work?

Jan 29, 2015By Touchstone blog

BusinessEurope, the body which represents employers’ organisations around Europe (the CBI is its UK member) wrote last week to European Union finance ministers in a last ditch attempt to derail the European financial transactions tax (FTT, aka the Robin Hood Tax) that a group of Eurozone…Read more…

Jan 29, 2015Touchstone blog

Civil service trade unionism under attack – public service trade unionists should respond

Jan 28, 2015By Jon's union blog

http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/pcs_comment/index.cfm/video-mark-serwotka-outlines-plan-for-pcs-future
The Tories (supported by their Lib Dem hangers on) are rehearsing – in the civil service – for the onslaught they intend to unleash upon all…Read more…

Jan 28, 2015Jon's union blog

Our members will have their say

Jan 28, 2015By Dave Prentis blog

This week’s pay offer for NHS staff in England has brought two issues into sharp focus …Read more…

Jan 28, 2015Dave Prentis blog

MP’s confirm poorest areas are worst hit by cuts

Jan 28, 2015By UNISON Active

Councils in the most deprived areas of England have been hardest hit by cuts to their funding, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has said. Austerity cuts have not been applied equally since…Read more…

Jan 28, 2015UNISON Active

Tomlinson’s dishonest use of statistics

Jan 28, 2015By Martin Wicks

Credit where it’s due. Justin Tomlinson is consistent. He consistently attempts to mislead his electorate in relation to the employment situation in the town. Once again he is trying to con people by presenting the Job Seekers Allowance numbers as the unemployment level. Why does he continue…Read more…

Jan 28, 2015Martin Wicks

Economics: history tells us austerity doesn’t work

Jan 28, 2015By Institute of Employment Rights Blog

28 January 2015
By Sue Konzelmann and Frank Wilkinson.

Osborne argues that the economy is on the road to recovery. Cameron claims that the government is well on the way to reducing the national…Read more…

Jan 28, 2015Institute of Employment Rights Blog

In fact, this is the slowest UK ‘recovery’ ON RECORD

Jan 28, 2015By Touchstone blog

A second look at historic GDP data shows the current ‘recovery’ is the slowest on record (which extend back to 1830), rather than the slowest recovery in modern history, as we reported yesterday. This chart shows index numbers of recoveries in GDP from the bottom of each recession to…Read more…

Jan 28, 2015Touchstone blog

Holocaust Memorial Day – Old Town Hall, Stratford

Jan 28, 2015By John's Labour blog

Yesterday I went to a Holocaust Memorial Day, ceremony organised by Newham Council which took place in the Old Town Hall in Stratford, E15. 
The hall was packed with residents and pupils from local schools. 
It began with a choir singing a sp…Read more…

Jan 28, 2015John's Labour blog

A UK Foreign Policy for the Middle East – Newham Compass 17 Feb 2015

Jan 27, 2015By John's Labour blog

This is going to be a really interesting event. It clashes with my UNISON branch AGM. Which is a real shame as Mike is always an entertaining speaker and was the former chair of the foreign affairs select committee. Read more…

Jan 27, 2015John's Labour blog

GDP figures hide an unbalanced economic recovery

Jan 27, 2015By Dave Watson

Today’s GDP figures look good on an annual basis, but they hide a slowdown in the last two quarters that starts to look like a trend.
GDP, grew 0.5% in the fourth quarter of the year, compared with…Read more…

Jan 27, 2015Dave Watson

Vote Alan Pottage number 1

Jan 27, 2015By RMT Waterloo Branch
Jan 27, 2015RMT Waterloo Branch

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Jan 27, 2015By RMT Waterloo Branch
Jan 27, 2015RMT Waterloo Branch

Shipload of Memories

Jan 27, 2015By RandomPottins

I’M always a bit wary about stories that claim to be reporting “Jewish outrage” about something or other.  Not that Jews haven’t the right to be outraged about anything. But too often the…Read more…

Jan 27, 2015RandomPottins

NHS strike suspended – what are the lessons from local government about consultation?

Jan 27, 2015By Jon's union blog

http://www.unison.org.uk/planned-nhs-strike-suspended
Ahead of Thursday’s planned strike action, the NHS trade unions (led by UNISON) have suspended that and any further action whilst members are consulted on an offer which our Head of Health describes…Read more…

Jan 27, 2015Jon's union blog

#HolocaustMemorialDay 2015: Remember the holocaust

Jan 27, 2015By Stronger Unions

This Holocaust Memorial Day the spotlight is on the worrying growth of anti-semitism in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, where hard right and neo-fascist parties are gaining ground. The attacks in…Read more…

Jan 27, 2015Stronger Unions

The slowest recovery in modern history slows down

Jan 27, 2015By Touchstone blog

GDP figures today disappointed expectations, with growth slowing for the second quarter in row, and increasingly departing already from the Office for Budgetary Responsibility forecast. In numbers: growth slowed to 0.5% in the last quarter of 2014, from 0.7% in the third quarter. This defied city…Read more…

Jan 27, 2015Touchstone blog

The Nazi Holocaust – never forget, never repeat

Jan 27, 2015By UNISON Active

#HMD2015 Today, International Holocaust Memorial Day, is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Angela Rayner, UNISON’s North West…Read more…

Jan 27, 2015UNISON Active

Debts that cannot be repaid

Jan 27, 2015By RandomPottins

THE Greek people have elected the left-wing Syriza party into office, signalling they’ve had enough of imposed austerity and unemployment, and though the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn remains menacing in…Read more…

Jan 27, 2015RandomPottins

70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army

Jan 26, 2015By Rtuc's Blog

Russia Excluded from Commemoration Ceremonies Prisoners at the Nazis’ Auschwitz concentration camp are liberated by the Red Army, January 27, 1945. The attempts to rewrite history are…Read more…

Jan 26, 2015Rtuc's Blog
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