US-based McDonalds workers have been offered a 10 per cent pay rise and big increase in paid holidays. But the pay rise only applies to one in 20 workers, at 89 cents its around 50p an hour and the…Read more…
Hundreds of thousands of UNISON healthcare workers in strike threat
Hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers, including nurses, paramedics, porters, cleaners, cooks, therapists and health care assistants will be balloted for industrial action if a move towards a…Read more…
“Voting is the only way to change things” – stars shine in Unite election video
Ricky Tomlinson, Terry Christian and Sue Johnston encourage people to register to voteRead more…
Scottish TUC backs Fast Food Global
Scottish Trades Union Congress expressed support for Fast Food Rights Day of Action, launches call for city councils to make safe staff travel a condition for the granting of licenses.Read more…
“Toff Cameron’s having a laugh” – unions slam right to buy scheme
Tories accused of continuing destructive tradition of Margaret Thatcher over “politically illiterate” policyRead more…
Labour manifesto – the other corp gov stuff
OK, from Labour’s workplace manifesto, here’s the full text of the corporate governance proposals.
Short-termist pressure in the UK can undermine good workplace relations and weakens incentives to make the long-term investments in training, technolog…Read more…
Gary’s opportunity to work again
On his visit to Wales today (April 14) Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey met workers at the E-Cycle Centre in Tonypandy. E-Cycle centres were set up by the Labour Wales government after the…Read more…
Conservatives now make the astounding claim to be the Party of the Working Class!
David Cameron and the Conservatives have declared that they are the Party of Working People! The basis for this claim in their manifesto is their “aim”, or so they say, which is to guarantee a…Read more…
For yourself, for humanity, for democracy
With just 22 days to go before the general election – and under one week left to get onto the voter registration roll – leading British actors Sue Johnston, Ricky Tomlinson, together with other…Read more…
Power from the people: why trade union decline should concern us all
Colleagues,
This short article of mine has been published today on the Future of Work Hub website: http://www.futureofworkhub.info/allcontent/2015/4/14/power-from-the-people-why-trade-union-decline-should-concern-us-all
Power from the people: why trad…Read more…
Keep it Co-op
On 16th of May, the 98-year old link between the Co-op Party and Co-op Group could be brought to an end. Sign up here to support the campaign to Keep it Co-op, and to check your eligibility to vote. Read more…
Tory zealots’ plans for strike ballots
‘We are all Thatcherites now’ David Cameron once told the BBC. Well millions of us will never have any truck with the divisive policies of the 1980s, but this Prime Minister is clearly…Read more…
Conservatives’ “anti-green growth, anti-clean energy manifesto”
The trade body for the renewables industry says some 19,000 onshore wind jobs are at risk as a result of the Conservatives’ manifesto pledge to halt the spread of onshore wind farms. The onshore wind sector delivered £1.6 billion in investment in the UK last year. But Renewable UK says that…Read more…
Homeless Sweets Way homeless
Walk through Sweets Way housing estate in Barnet, North London, and it’s a ghost town – broken glass on the streets, windows boarded up as if in preparation for a storm, kitchen and bath items laying…Read more…
Swazi transport union fights back and wins
Despite state repression and intransigent employers, the Swazi Transport and Allied Workers Union is fighting and winning for its members.Read more…
A Britain that works for all
The very front page title of Labour’s election manifesto sums up both the future and the immediate past of this country: ‘Britain can be better’. Too right it can! After five years of failed…Read more…
The self-imploding system
Mark Wright is the assistant director (leadership & management) at AMiE. Following the speech Tristram Hunt gave at the ATL conference outlining Labour’s education policies, this, along with…Read more…
Cameron’s ‘right’ to cause homelessness
The right to buy is back – but this time the Tories have set their sights on housing associations. Stung by allegations that the Conservative’s message to the electorate is too negative, David…Read more…
Channel anger by voting
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey kicked off his two-day election tour of Wales today (April 14) in Cardiff, where he joined Unite secretary for Wales Andy Richards, shadow Welsh secretary Owen…Read more…
STAND UP FOR STEEL IN SCOTLAND
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 articles…Read more…