This collage is from today’s West Ham Labour Party stall in Forest Gate. Lyn Brown MP and local Party members and supporters handed out leaflets on Labour plans to save the NHS and rent controls. We also leafleted shoppers at our local Co-operative sto…Read more…
The Putinisation of Israel
In a sense, not much changed in the Israeli elections of 2015, despite media reports of a “landslide” victory for incumbent Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The country is still almost equally…Read more…
Earth Hour 2015 and the importance of a global climate deal in Paris
Earth Hour 2015
takes place next Saturday, 28 March, and is a reminder of the importance of a
global climate deal in Paris in December.
UNISON Scotland
is a strong supporter of WWF’s Earth Hour campaign.
Each year Earth
Hour sees the lights go out on countless famous buildings and in
ordinary homes around the world to raise awareness of the need for action on
climate change.
Speech: Stand Up to Racism and Fascism demonstration
The CWU is proud to be a sponsor of today’s demonstration. We believe that the trade unions must be part of the broader anti-racist and antifascist movement. The CWU was one of the founding…Read more…
Social insurance reform sparks a new round of workers’ protests in China
The recently revised housing fund withdrawal regulation has caused a new spate of labour strikes and protests in China’s manufacturing hub, as the new revision limits workers’ ability to cash in the money in their accounts.Read more…
Francis Maude: Lift unworkable media restrictions for civil servants
Sign the FDA petition on new rules that civil servants need ministerial clearance to talk to journalists.Read more…
More men called John run big companies than all women
Not that there is anything wrong with being called John but this blatant sexism and inequality is a nonsense. It is also simply bad for business if you exclude half the world from the the potential pool of talent to recruit from. The picture above is f…Read more…
Help protest media gag on civil servants
Please help FDA members tell Francis Maude that government need to think again.Read more…
The decline and fall of our annual Service Group Conference?
I note with regret that there are fewer motions on the Preliminary Agenda for our two day Local Government Service Group Conference in June than have been submitted to be discussed in four hours of Conference time next Tuesday.
The 42 motions on the agenda (a number which at least suggests that…Read more…
‘Stand up for Free Expression’ conference – Paris, 31st March 2015
‘Stand Up for Free Expression!’, a conference organised by the IFJ (International Federation of Journalists) and the SNJ (French Syndicat National des Journalistes), takes place in Paris…Read more…
Sajid Javid on Question Time: yet more labour market spin
Last night’s BBC Question Time (20 minutes into the iPlayer recording) featured Sajid Javid MP, a member of Cameron’s cabinet, defiantly claim that 80% of the jobs created in the past 5 years have been both full time and high-skilled in response to an audience member who was rightly concerned about…Read more…
Sanctions must go
As part of a national day of action (March 19) opposing benefit sanctions, which are now being used on an industrial scale, Unite held a demonstration outside the Department for Work and Pensions in London demanding these sanctions end.
P…Read more…
Stand Up to Racism and Fascism: Why We Need to March on Saturday 21st March
To mark UN Anti-Racism day tomorrow, Saturday 21stMarch, a call went out from Keefra- the Greek anti-nazi movement, which had success in tackling Golden Dawn- to hold anti-racist demonstrations….Read more…
48 hours of Action for Public Ownership of Rail
Every year, privatisation wastes over £1bn – with money leaking out in areas such as shareholder dividends, company profits, and costs arising from fragmentation of our railways. In 2013-14,…Read more…
Gary Lewis and Tommy Sands lead Glasgow’s MayDay festivities.
–> MayDay festivals have been celebrated since pre-Christian times. Earliest celebrations marked the beginning of summer and linked to many pagan festivals including the Gaelic…Read more…
Transport workers’ international investigates labour rights abuses on Thai fishing vessels
An ITF delegation has boarded industrial fishing vessels landing their catch in Songkhla port, Southern Thailand this week, as part of an investigation into labour rights abuses.Read more…
We will fight for workers
Unite’s rule book sounds just the sort of dusty tome to give employment lawyers headaches. Last week our governing body, Unite’s executive, unanimously agreed to make it shorter. It recommended the deletion from our rules of six little words that have governed our union’s actions: “so far as may be lawful”. So far, so […]
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Some good news on mental health (at last)?
Trade unions are finding ways to prevent mental health problems or, if it’s already happened to get employers to enable them to continue in work.
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Saving Our Safety Net Fact of the Week: even small victories should be celebrated
Last year we began our Saving Our Safety Net campaign by focusing on the “Five Week Wait” for benefits. One of the policies that will force thousands of new claimants to spend weeks with no income is the introduction of seven “waiting days”, which were due to be brought in next month for Universal…Read more…
Offshoring via the backdoor
Rolls-Royce, the iconic luxury car manufacturer which now predominantly builds aircraft engines, owes much of its success to the thousands of highly skilled UK workers who’ve made the business the bastion of world-class engineering it is today. In a short-term bid to cut costs amid profit losses, however, Rolls-Royce announced a global restructuring exercise […]
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