Shop stewards voted unanimously for a national protest march to Dunnes Stores Head Office in Dublin which will take place on Saturday, June 6.Read more…
Pension governance committees stacked with industry insiders
When caught doing something you shouldn’t and given another chance, it is usually wise to reform your ways. However, it appears that large sections of the pensions industry are intent on ignoring this basic piece of common sense. Rules requiring independent governance committees to be established…Read more…
Interserve Waterloo -Update
BALLOT TIMETABLE ANNOUNCED RATES OF PAY AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 2015 – NETWORK RAIL
Our Ref BR6/0001Circular No IR/108/1523rd April 2015 TO ALL BRANCHES, REGIONAL COUNCILS AND REGIONAL OFFICES Dear Colleagues BALLOT TIMETABLE…Read more…
Stating the obvious, or the importance of aims and values
Anne Heavey is an Education Policy Adviser at ATL. The Curriculum is more than simply facts and figures arranged into subjects; as Dylan William has stated “The National Curriculum is the intended…Read more…
BREAKING: Scottish Power workers to ballot for strike action
GMB and Unite members angry over enforced changes to their working conditionsRead more…
The Capitalist Epidemic of Anxiety
There is an epidemic in the capitalist world affecting all classes but specifically the working class. It is a product of the oppression of the workers and their marginalisation. In the struggle to…Read more…
Growing numbers of paramedics are going off sick with stress as the demand for 999 services increases.
Paramedics take 40,000 days off sick with stress as strain on NHS takes toll Pressures of the job and dealing with trauma bring rise in mental health issues for 999 workers. Freedom of information…Read more…
Stealth cuts to hospitals push the NHS into the red (TUC)
Cuts to tariffs – the prices paid to hospitals for different medical procedures – are starving health trusts of income and contributing to the growing financial crisis in the NHS, according to new…Read more…
RMT members to ballot for strike at DLR
The RMT is to ballot its members at Docklands Light Railway in two separate disputes over pay and working conditions. Reps have been involved in extensive in talks with Keolis/Amey Docklands…Read more…
Ambulance workers in pay strike
A 24-hour stoppage on May 6 has been confirmed by Unite’s ambulance service members in Northern Ireland – the only health area in the UK where workers have not received an offer of a pay rise….Read more…
“If you care for the NHS, then vote for it” – Dave Prentis
“If you care for the NHS, then vote for it,” Dave Prentis told a packed Save Our NHS rally in Yorkshire at the weekend. The UNISON general secretary spoke at a packed Leeds Town Hall to…Read more…
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9 May – Save Barnet Libraries
Bradford bus drivers on strike over attacks to their terms and conditions
Unite accuses of First West Yorkshire of allowing services to wither on the vineRead more…
Surrendering to neo-liberal ‘fiscal discipline’
Keith Ewing suggests that Scottish independence may come sooner than the high-speed rail link, partly because of ‘Labour’s extraordinary proposal to give quasi-constitutional status to Austerity.’…Read more…
Unite seeks urgent meeting with HSBC over UK quit threat
Union says it sees “great benefits” to bank remaining in UKRead more…
Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) – Watkins Path April 2015
Off message but earlier this month I went to North Wales for my mum’s birthday but also to walk up Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) to pay my respects in memory to my father whose ashes were scattered on at the summit in April 2002. I normally go with my sisters bu…Read more…
Think zero-hours contracts are bad? Wait ’til you hear about short-hours contracts …
TUC research shows 820,000 UK employees are under-employedRead more…
Employees in corporate governance
I just noticed something rather surprising. There are five political parties that make reference to enhancing the role of employees in corporate governance in their manifestos.
I have done Labour already, so here are the rest.
Lib Dems (page 137 in fu…Read more…