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News that no high street chains are prepared to pay living wage seen has been condemned by Unite as “a bleak day for hard working Britain”. Millions will now “earn their own poverty” on our High Streets, as not a single major high street chain is prepared to commit to paying staff even the living […]
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The Impact on Women of Recession and Austerity This report, prepared for TUC Women’s Conference 2015, takes stock and looks at how women have fared through recession and austerity. It finds that…Read more…
Today, what is being increasingly recognised in the movements of the working class and people is that because there is no serious organised political opposition in Westminster to the “austerity”…Read more…
Attempts by the management of the Dulwich Picture Gallery to water down the visitor experience by axing 19 of the 36 gallery assistants have been brushed away. Unite said that attempts to get rid of the knowledgeable assistants at the world’s first purpose-built public art gallery and replacing them with apprentices on training […]
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Billy Bragg makes welcome return to Dorset trade union festivalRead more…
The Fight for the Affirmation of Women Women are at the Forefront of the Fight for a New Society This year, International Women’s Day comes two months before a General Election in Britain. The role…Read more…
Veteran anti-austerity campaigner and author Harry Leslie Smith speaks exclusively to UNITElive, following his address to a packed crowd at the University of Manchester NoVoteNoVoice event last week (March 11). It was the summer of 1945 and Harry Leslie Smith, then only 22, cast his first ballot in a general election. The Second World […]
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2015 could be a crunch year in the fight against global warming. One of the most effective ways you can play a part is to start (or get behind existing efforts) to ‘green your workplace’. This year,…Read more…
Workers across Northern Ireland engaged in a one-day strike to say ‘enough is enough – hands off our public services’. The strike on Friday (March 13) called in response to the Stormont ‘austerity budget’, saw an unprecedented mobilisation of public sector workers across a wide range of workplaces. “From our soundings over the […]
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Members of Community, GMB and Unite prepare to ballot over pensions changeRead more…
Unions welcomes public inquiry but says it must investigate revelations by Peter FrancisRead more…
UNISON says declaring nationwide major incident was “provocative”Read more…
Unite leader attacks “dangerous dog whistle politics”Read more…
Last week I watched Ed Balls give a typically combative speech at the RSA about Tory spending and taxation plans if they won the next election.
On Sunday morning I again saw Ed interviewed on the BBC Andrew Marr programme who then went on to intervie…Read more…
The Charity Aston-Mansfield is
seeking funding for its Newham LGBT Youth support group via a crowd funding campaign. They aim to raise £6,000 and have already donations from local football team Clapton Ultras after their Football vs Homophobia’ match. The crowd funding will last until the 11th…Read more…
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On Tuesday evening (and repeated 5pm today) the excellent investigative Radio 4 programme “File on 4” examined whether at the same time that Councils are suffering from massive Government cuts – their pension funds are also being ripped off by fund man…Read more…
The New Secularism, a Discriminatory Principle to Promote the Clash of Civilizations – Nicolas Bourgoin – These are hard times for the Republic: multiplying attacks against Muslims and their places…Read more…
‘There was absolutely no need for anything to do with austerity. It is really a political project which has been carried out in the UK for the last 30 or 40 years. It has eroded the purchasing power…Read more…