Anne Heavey is an Education Policy Adviser at ATL. Purposeful; Calm; Bright; Interesting; Clean. These words sum up the physical environment of both Stanley Park High and Springwell Learning…Read more…
Election- what it means to young workers
Last Thursday’s general election saw a Conservative majority government voted into Westminster. After having had the weekend for it all to sink in, it’s time to look at what the election result means…Read more…
Unite calls on Northern Irish Executive to act to defend manufacturing jobs
Added protections urgently needed to prevent off-shoring of jobs to low-cost economiesRead more…
Dunnes Stores concede Mandate Trade Union’s 3% pay claim
Mandate Trade Union has today (Tuesday, 12th May 2015) cautiously welcomed concession of their 3 percent pay claim for Dunnes Stores workers. However, the union says the pay increase must be…Read more…
BREAKING: Network Rail workers vote for pay strike
RMT says mandate exceeds “rigged” criteria proposed by the ToriesRead more…
“Oliver Twist had more power than us” – TUC on Javid plans
Zero hours contracts and poverty pay – welcome to life under the ToriesRead more…
Austerity March- London
Originally posted on Isle of Wight TUC:
Saturday 20 June 2015 Assemble 12pm, Bank of England (Queen Victoria St) City of London Nearest tube: Bank Organised by The People’s Assembly Transport…Read more…
Kenny squares up to “anti-union” Mandelson
GMB leader accuses New Labour architect of being “absurd”Read more…
Serwotka and Loach speak at National Gallery solidarity rally today
PCS rep Candy Udwin finally hears her case after being suspended on eve of strikeRead more…
Leeds and Bradford lecturers prepare strike ballot over 280 job losses
UCU members angry at plans to sack staffRead more…
2015-2020: a do-or-die period for UK trade unions
‘Trade unions will now pay a heavy price for Labour’s defeat. Tory plans are set out clearly enough in their election manifesto, including the much-trumpeted proposals for yet more restrictions on…Read more…
Environmental activists targeted by illegal blacklister support blacklisted workers in High Court battle
Environmental activists who were on a construction industry blacklist have spoken out in support of a High Court case against companies involved. On 14 May 2015, the blacklisting group litigation…Read more…
London Loop Walk Section 3: “Petts Wood to West Wickham Common”
The General election is finally over, for good or bad (and I think it is very bad). Yesterday I had my first free Sunday for ages and went off and walked section 3 of the London Loop Walk “Petts Wood to West Wickham”.
The weather was warm and mostly s…Read more…
Pay growth to slow and public sector restraint a big factor, says CIPD
A new survey of 1,013 employers published by the CIPD published today* reports that pay growth is expected to slow during the coming year, and that many employers now believe that public sector restraint is slowing pay growth across the whole economy: •”Basic pay is expected to grow by just…Read more…
Looking into an abyss
As the Tories swung into power last week – despite securing little more than a third of the share of the national vote – they are now unfettered by a coalition government, and have already begun…Read more…
BREAKING: Lecturers vote for strike at London university as 165 jobs go
UCU members say making more cuts is a “misguided strategy”Read more…
UCU victory against university employer
11th May 2015
By Michael MacNeil
In higher education the bosses often consider themselves to sit at the more enlightened and progressive end of the employers’ spectrum. They do, however,…Read more…
Bernie Sanders and Michael Harrington: A second chance?
My first article ever for Salon. That’s my original title, and this is how my version of it opened: Current speculation about a possible Bernie Sanders challenge to Hillary Clinton in 2016 is…Read more…
Company responses to high shareholder votes against exec pay
As I’ve blogged previously, the new version of the UK Corporate Governance Code requires companies to make a statement in response to large votes against them. This was introduced due to concerns that companies were treating near misses on exec pay vot…Read more…
Priti awful – union reacts to new employment minister
Priti Patel voted against rights for shareholding employeesRead more…