On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
May Day rally and festival in heart of Kent coal field
Transport union RMT is supporting a major rally and festival in the heart of the Kent coal fields over the coming May Day bank holiday weekend.Read more…
BULLYING AND HARASSMENT CAMPAIGN
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
China’s labour activists unhindered by government clampdown
Peng Jiayong, a Chinese labour rights activist who was severely beaten and hospitalised due to his active involvement in the Cui Heng factory workers’ strike, told USi despite the threat and violence…Read more…
Water is returning to public service delivery
Water privatisation is in retreat. Water and wastewater is returning to local authority ownership across the world.
The Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU), Multinational Observatory,…Read more…
PROTECTING PUBLIC SERVICES ONE CONVERSATION AT A TIME
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
The gap between richest and poorest region…
And of course the gap in the UK is by far the worse. This cannot continue. Only a Labour Government can make a difference.
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Conservative tax plans help the wealthiest most – but there is a fairer way
At the Conservative party conference last year David Cameron announced that a future Conservative government would seek to introduce two separate income tax cuts: an above inflation increase in the personal allowance and a rise in the higher rate thres…Read more…
WHY POLITICIANS NEED TO TALK ABOUT GOOD WORK
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
Fixing the broken link
Some 20 years ago Lara Norris left her home with her two young children for a women’s refuge. Now, after putting herself through university, raising her children as a lone parent and working for…Read more…
Poring over the polls
Close to three weeks after the general election campaign kicked off proper, psephologists are still poring over the polls to get an idea of what parliament could look like after the election. …Read more…
Today’s labour market statistics: working people are still paying the price for austerity
Many have argued that employment gains somehow compensate for earnings losses, but this is false. My post on today’s labour market statistics is up at Left Foot Forward.
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“Several of my team work 45 hours a week”
I work as a carer and I often don’t get enough travel time between clients. Several of my team work 45 hours a week and more and don’t get the legal requirement of a break after 6 hours work. As we mostly work alone and have different days off and shif…Read more…
A&E crisis
In a feature on the crisis in A&E in Worcestershire Royal Hospital aired on BBC Radio 4′s Today programme today(April 17), an anonymous ‘senior clinical’ member of staff reported on…Read more…
SOLIDARITY TO DEFEAT GOVERNMENT UNION-BUSTING
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
People really matter
When you ask Russell Brown what his memories are of taking the seat of Dumfries for Labour in 1997 he thinks not of himself but of others. National minimum wage “I remember first…Read more…
Union representation plea ignored
Unite construction members employed at Sellafield Limited in West Cumbria have overwhelmingly backed industrial action in a dispute over the company’s refusal to allow a full time union shop steward…Read more…
Sellafield workers vote for industrial action over health and safety
Unite urges employer to get back round the negotiating tabs to resolve disputeRead more…
Black workers facing the scourge of casualisation
The coalition government’s rhetoric on the need to reduce the financial deficit hid an agenda. This agenda aimed to reshape the economy through privatisation of public services and to destroy union organisation and hard won conditions. It aimed to enable private interests to exploit labour for even…Read more…
NUJ STRESS CAMPAIGN
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…