Yesterday BBC Radio 4’s The Today Programme covered the story of a care worker who had been told to clip her appointments because travel wasn’t calculated accurately, and to leave elderly clients on the floor when they’d had a fall.Liste…Read more…
TUC Migration Messaging Project Showcase April 2015
The TUC held an event in April at Congress House to showcase the work that took place during the TUC Migration Messaging project. Campaign group members from the project’s three pilot areas: Corby,…Read more…
Top down reform can never move fast enough to save lives in Qatar – that’s why trade unions are needed
Only free Trade Unions can stop thousands dying in Qatar. We’ll be honest. Very occasionally our campaign partners and volunteers don’t quite understand one of our key demands of Qatar. The right to…Read more…
US Senate blocks TTIP bill
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a mammoth EU-US trade deal, suffered a blow on Tuesday (May 12) , when the US Senate blocked a bill that would enable it and other similar…Read more…
Living Wage win for Saria cleaners
Unite wants all workers to be paid at least the Living Wage, which is the minimum income a worker needs to ensure their basic needs are met. Unite reps at many workplaces are increasingly…Read more…
Economic miracle or economic mire?
It now seems there have been more miracles attributed to the Tories than to Jesus Christ himself. So many economic miracles the Tory press don’t know who to raise to political sainthood. They…Read more…
“Greenlist” victims donate compensation to Blacklisted workers
The blacklisting group litigation today returns to the High CourtRead more…
Coronation Street hit as ITV workers strike over pay
Members of BECTU, NUJ and Unite take action after rejecting 2% pay offerRead more…
TTIP – after US Senate blow, European Parliament is next up
The shock decision by the US Senate on Tuesday not to deliver ‘Trade Promotion Authority’ to the President for negotiating a trans-Pacific trade deal dealt a serious blow to the EU-US Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that is currently being negotiated. It now seems…Read more…
Usdaw offers support to beleaguered Murphy
Union says Scottish Labour leader should be given time to shape new directionRead more…
Back To The ’80s
Great music (mostly). Read more…
Bank of England shows jobs gains are concentrated in lower-paid work
ONS released today another upbeat set of employment numbers, as well as an underlying nominal earnings figure above 2 per cent for the first time in approaching four years (see my colleague Richard Exell’s post). But in the meantime the Bank of England issued a sobering analysis of the nature of…Read more…
Strike for a ‘fitting pay rise’
A strike comprising 11 one day stoppages commenced at Antrim carpets in Belfast today (May 13) over what workers have dubbed ‘poverty pay’. Workers laid down tools at 1pm today for six hours in…Read more…
BREAKING: BBC studio managers vote for strike
BECTU members vote by 82% to take action over disputed leave arrangementsRead more…
Conservative strike plans are an aggressive assault on our rights and our democracy
That one of the first priorities of the new government has been to push ahead with punitive new plans for strike ballots is not just a blow for union members, but a blow for UK democracy.
The post Conservative strike plans are an aggressive assault on…Read more…
Labour can’t survive without the unions
Back to the future seems to be the pre-cooked consensus response to Labour’s dramatic defeat last week. To hear many party grandees tell it, all we have to do is party like it’s 1997 again. I…Read more…
Italian teachers: “Boycott tests and everyone to the beach”
Italy in foreground of anti-testing tight todayRead more…
What happened and why?
These are some brief initial observations on the outcome of the General Election. Understanding exactly what happened in the General Election will take some time. It makes no sense to draw hasty conclusions on what is a complicated outcome in which a number of different trends appear to have…Read more…
US unions block trade deal
Obama suffers Congress defeat after unions lobby Democrats to block Fast Track.Read more…
Trade Unions and the General Election 2015
13 May 2015
By Professor Keith Ewing
Shortly after the general election in 2010, I wrote in these columns that Cameron would win the 2015 general election (Morning Star, 18 June 2010). The…Read more…