It is a great joy to see the Isle of Wight TUC (IOWTUC) website begin blogging. The site can be found on https://iowtuc.wordpress.com/ The Trades Councils want to be pro-active. The activity to write…Read more…
Workers and communities march on May Day in Dublin
Video & photos of workers and communities who gathered in Dublin to march in solidarity on May day 2015.Read more…
Right for the wrong reasons
The Right of the Labour Party has had it in for Ed Miliband since the day he was elected. Because their criticism of him encompasses some things a lot of people agree with, like his failure to connect with the public, it can seem like a ‘pragmatic’ vie…Read more…
Workers’ Weekly Interview with Charlotte Monro:
Speaking Out in Defence of the NHS and Fighting to Safeguard Its Future Charlotte Monro WW: What was the climate behind your dismissal from Whipps Cross Hospital? At the time of my dismissal, Whipps…Read more…
Vote for a change of Government – and do all you can to persuade others to do likewise
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/general-election-2015-watch-out-a-vote-for-labour-will-bring-the-fires-of-hell-to-britain-10217396.html
In the next few days, as we approach the fifth consecutive election in which the Conservative Party (the…Read more…
NHA Party: Safeguarding the Future of the NHS.
Safeguarding the Future of the NHS Workers’ Weekly Interview with Dr Helen Salisbury, National Health Action Party candidate, Oxford West and Abingdon WW: Can you tell us why you decided to…Read more…
Profit motive is ‘ripping through the NHS’, Andy Burnham warns.
As income from paying patients grows, Labour says the service will crumble under the Tories. Independent Charlie Cooper Health Correspondent The UK’s first privately run NHS hospital more than…Read more…
Public bus workers strike to defend public transport
Bus drivers SIPTU & NBRU placed pickets in over 30 locations across the country on Friday, 1st May, as they engaged in strike action aimed at protecting services and decent jobs from the threat…Read more…
There’s a long road to true LGBT equality…
Pride in London has issued a call for politicians to support a pledge, a commitment to the steps needed “to make London the best LGBT+ city in the world”. The TUC warmly welcomes this, the first time that Pride in London has done anything like this.
The post There’s a long road to true LGBT…Read more…
May Scotland in UNISON now online
Election special, Health conference reports, Glasgow strikers and reports from UNISON at the STUC on TTIP, local government, pay, union rights, poverty, environment, child care, BME workers, ethical care charter, flexible working, pay and much more. Take your copy into your workplace and share it or see it online at at http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/siu/index.html and on issuu at http://Read more…
Reasons to be MayDay – part 2
….The main event of the holiday period is the March and Rallytoday (3 May). From 11.00 people will gather in George Square and then march to the O2 Academy in Bridge Street. The March is being lead…Read more…
Ilford North is a “very, very, very marginal seat. It’s on a knife edge”
Ilford North needs all the help it can get on polling day (and the run up). Volunteer here http://www.wesstreeting.org/polling_day_2015
Tomorrow (Sunday 3 May) at 2pm West Ham Labour are joining comrades from East Ham to campaign for Wes.
West Hamme…Read more…
Can your family afford another 5 years of Tory government?
No, so vote LabourRead more…
Workers’ Memorial Day 2015 at the historic Three Mills Green, Stratford
On Tuesday 28 April it was Workers Memorial Day. An international day to remember those who have been killed at work or die from work related ill health. UNISON estimates this kills up to 50,000 workers every year in the UK.
UNISON Greater Londo…Read more…
IOWTUC on Political affiliation:
letter to Tuc from the Trades Council https://iowtuc.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/letter-to-tuc-from-the-trades-council/ Megan Dobney Regional Secetary Sertuc Congress House Great Russell Street London…Read more…
Analysis of the impact of and policy response to MG Rover in Birmingham
Well worth reading. An interesting paper produced by David Bailey, Gill Bentley, Alex de Ruyter and Stephen Hall. Click here to download the pdf.Read more…
Make work fair for parents and give children decent childhoods, say UNISON and Child Poverty Action Group
CPAG, Scotland’s most high profile child poverty charity, and UNISON, Scotland’s biggest trade union have joined together to call on political parties to lay out policies to tackle in-work poverty.
The call comes as the two organisations release their report Fair Work and Decent Childhoods – policies for those who work to live lives free of poverty. They call for investment in the socialRead more…
Care for it? VOTE FOR IT.
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Radical alternative for change
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey spoke to LBC Radio this evening (May 1), urging the British people to take stock of the enormously important decision facing the electorate on May 7. …Read more…
Rooted to hopes of working class
There’s a no-nonsense streak to Ian Davidson which can only be a strength on the doorstep during the cut and thrust of an election campaign. “The issues here are a lack of income and under…Read more…