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minimum wage cheats – why not name all of them?

Feb 24, 2015By Touchstone blog

The government has named a further 70 employees caught underpaying the minimum wage*. This is welcome news, which brings the total named in the past year up to 162. However, they should now go on and name the other 490 employers caught cheating last year. In addition, they should take some of the…Read more…

Feb 24, 2015Touchstone blog

It’s not just Britain that needs that pay rise

Feb 24, 2015By Touchstone blog

During Fair Pay Fortnight, the TUC has been sending out a clear message about Britain’s shrinking pay packet, but how do things compare with the rest of Europe? Well according to the latest analysis by the Labour Research Department (LRD), the UK is close to the bottom of the pile. LRD’s Workplace…Read more…

Feb 24, 2015Touchstone blog

Ukraine: Poroshenko bruised by army retreat

Feb 24, 2015By Rtuc's Blog

By David Stern BBC News, Kiev Damage in Vihlehirsk, near Debaltseve, testifies to the intensity of the fighting   The question is not whether the fall of the strategically important road and rail hub…Read more…

Feb 24, 2015Rtuc's Blog

A Living Rent

Feb 23, 2015By John's Labour blog

This motion was passed at my branch AGM which took place in City Hall last week. It will be one of our motions submitted to our UNISON National Conference in June (the other on “Union Busting”).

If people think a “Living Wage” makes sense, then what a…Read more…

Feb 23, 2015John's Labour blog

The Future of Private Enterprise

Feb 23, 2015By Labour And Capital

One of the more interesting books I read in the past couple of years is the Future of Private Enterprise by George Goyder. It’s interesting for various reasons. For one, it’s a reminder that when it was published (1954) mainstream views about the natur…Read more…

Feb 23, 2015Labour And Capital

Web links for 23rd February 2015

Feb 23, 2015By Touchstone blog

‘In Conversation’ with Frances O’Grady at SPERI Frances O’Grady talks about inequality at Sheffield UNI SPERI. Discussing her time in Davos this year, she makes the case that “you cannot redistribute wealth unless you are prepared to redistribute power”. Whether…Read more…

Feb 23, 2015Touchstone blog

Public water contract – ultimate in market madness

Feb 23, 2015By Dave Watson

Paying a privatised English water company to provide Scottish public water to Scotland’s public services has to be the ultimate in market madness.
An article in yesterday’s Sunday Times reports that…Read more…

Feb 23, 2015Dave Watson

Fiona Bruce’s abortion amendment: an attack on women’s rights

Feb 23, 2015By Touchstone blog

This evening Parliament will debate an amendment to the Serious Crime Bill which represents a significant and retrograde step in UK legislation on abortion. The amendment concerns abortions on the grounds of foetal sex – a practice which is commonplace in many countries but for which there is no…Read more…

Feb 23, 2015Touchstone blog

Fair Pay – why we fight for a living wage

Feb 23, 2015By Dave Prentis blog

Five million workers are earning less than the living wageRead more…

Feb 23, 2015Dave Prentis blog

Is a new consensus emerging on how we pay pensions?

Feb 23, 2015By Touchstone blog

It is not often that someone from the TUC is invited to write a foreword for a pamphlet published by the Centre for Policy Studies – a think-tank whose website is headed by an approving quotation from Margaret Thatcher. But then it is something of a surprise – and to their credit…Read more…

Feb 23, 2015Touchstone blog

Britain’s Living Wage Blackspots

Feb 23, 2015By Touchstone blog

One in five jobs pay less than the living wage. But you won’t find them evenly distributed across the UK. In some constituencies, over half of full-time workers get less than living wages. We’ve mapped almost every constituency in England, Wales, and Scotland below:  Source: House of…Read more…

Feb 23, 2015Touchstone blog

Channel 4 concedes from six episodes to one – Time to cancel all of Immigration Street!

Feb 23, 2015By Stronger Unions

Last week the campaign of unions, residents and activists in and around Southampton to put pressure on Channel 4 to cancel a controversial six part series of a show titled ‘Immigration Street’,…Read more…

Feb 23, 2015Stronger Unions

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Feb 23, 2015By Barnet UNISON

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Feb 23, 2015Barnet UNISON

Punching above our weight

Feb 23, 2015By UNISON Active

UNISON was the UK’s top political donor in the fourth quarter of 2014! Electoral Commission data published last week confirms that a total of £1,384,289 was donated to the Labour Party from our…Read more…

Feb 23, 2015UNISON Active

No wonder bosses don’t want a Labour Government. Pure greed…

Feb 22, 2015By John's Labour blog

We are being taken for mugs. Workers and the share owners of companies (such as pension and insurance policy holders) alike are being ripped off. The father of modern day economics, Adam Smith, (not someone I usually cite and whose book “Wealth of Nati…Read more…

Feb 22, 2015John's Labour blog

Freedom of Speech, so long as you keep shtum?

Feb 22, 2015By RandomPottins

“FREEDOM OF SPEECH” has been much talked about lately, in the wake of the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ killings and with regard to such slightly less serious matters as the enthusiasm with which some groups of…Read more…

Feb 22, 2015RandomPottins

Trade union members accused after losing leader in bomb blast

Feb 21, 2015By Stronger Unions

A deadly terrorist attack rocked Mogadishu in Somalia yesterday when a female suicide bomber working as a receptionist blew herself up at the Central Hotel during Friday prayers. 25 people were…Read more…

Feb 21, 2015Stronger Unions

“I am proud to be a trade unionist, to be a member of the Labour Party and to be a socialist”

Feb 21, 2015By John's Labour blog

Well said Dennis.Read more…

Feb 21, 2015John's Labour blog

Speech: UAF Conference

Feb 21, 2015By Billy Hayes

Session “ After Copenhagen, Chapel Hill and Paris attacks: Uniting against Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and fascism in Europe” It is always a pleasure to speak at UAF events. The CWU believes that UAF…Read more…

Feb 21, 2015Billy Hayes

LATEST: Steelworkers – Oil Strike Expands : 7,000 Workers On Strike

Feb 21, 2015By Power In A Union

The United Steelworkers (USW) announced that it will expand its unfair labour practice strike (ULP) by launching a work stoppage at midnight at the Motiva Enterprises refinery in Port Arthur, Texas….Read more…

Feb 21, 2015Power In A Union
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