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The World Cup’s major sponsors will be paying huge amounts to be associated with the tournament, and the unfolding human rights scandal has the potential to be sponsorship kryptonite.
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Waiters, the UK’s worst paid workers, will call on Pizza Express to stop pocketing an estimated £am that should go to poorly paid staff, at a protest in central London tomorrow (May 21). The…Read more…
A wave of stoppages across the Turkish car industry is taking place as workers demand better pay and conditions – as well as demanding to join a union of their choice and elect their own union…Read more…
Deflation, slow growth, pay in the doldrums, household debt on the rise, productivity stagnant. Can we survive more austerity? So prices in general have gone from not rising at all – zero…Read more…
There is a sense in the discussion surrounding the latest inflation figures that those who are less-than-sanguine about the threat of deflation are somehow ignorant or even reckless. Here’s Robert Peston yesterday: However many of those who define themselves as “serious economists”…Read more…
Unite is set to ballot its 6,000 members at Tata Steel UK for industrial action over its proposal to close the British Steel pension scheme (BSPS). Unite’s ballot for strike action and…Read more…
Lawyers fear that further cuts to criminal legal aid under the new Conservative government will lead to a dramatic decline in the quality of legal representation as well as to miscarriages of justice. The Guardian reported last week that the Criminal B…Read more…
DID PLAID, SNP AND GREENS’ VOTE SHARE COST LABOUR A VICTORY? May 2015 Wednesday 20th posted by Morning Star in Features JACK KIFFIN crunches the numbers and finds the range of alternative left…Read more…
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The final speaker at this morning’s (inquorate) meeting of the Regional Council was John Burgess, Branch Secretary of Barnet UNISON.Barnet are in the front line of resisting privatisation – and are demonstrating how such resistance can sustain trade union…Read more…
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Dennis Goldberg, President of Community HEART, gave an encouraging and inspiring address to the (regrettably inquorate) meeting of the UNISON Greater London Regional this morning.
The Region is going to consider regular donations – and so should our…Read more…
This morning, at a meeting of UNISON’s Greater London Regional Council, I have listened to our Regional Secretary give a considered presentation about how UNISON should respond to the result of the General Election.
Although this presentation – in common with the contributions made this week by…Read more…
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It’s apt that PCS – the largest of the civil service trade unions – which was in the front line of the assault on trade union organising …Read more…
“To UNISON Members,
Make sure you have your say in selecting Labour’s new leader and the Labour candidate for London Mayor.
Sign up now as an Affiliated Supporter of the Labour Party.
Any UNISON member who supports Labour’s aims and values is enti…Read more…
Carry Forward the Struggle against Cameron! No to the Austerity Agenda! Defend the Rights of All! General disbelief followed the result of the General Election that the Conservative Party had won an…Read more…
Our General Secretary has told the North West Regional Council that, had he been at the Development and Organisation (D&O) Committee of the UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) last week he would have advised us differently.
Seemingly he thinks our decision to crack on with transferring…Read more…
Rising income inequality, in which a handful of people earn millions and the rest struggle just to get by, is often seen as a problem of developing countries – a symptom of a corrupt elite and the…Read more…
If you were to imagine the typical Cotswold town, you might well come up with Burford. The steeply sloped High Street is lined by creamy yellow stone houses and shops. It’s a quiet town –…Read more…
As household debt is set to hit record levels, Wonga targets the market by slashing interest rates to 1,500 per cent a year and lend to those who can re-pay loans. Loans are big business, with…Read more…
Using new evidence of the damage to the environment and to human health, the IMF reports that the fossil fuel industries received $4.2 trillion in subsidies in 2011, the latest available figure. The subsidy represents 5.8% of global GDP – more than double the amount from previous reports….Read more…