The potential loss of up to 300 jobs at Young’s Seafood in Grimsby is extremely worrying news to the workforce and the local economy. The company has lost a vital contract with Sainsbury’s and…Read more…
Government wrong on testing says NUT… and the CBI
We fought off Michael Gove’s first attempts to impose the EBacc as a narrow and prescriptive exam by building the widest and most diverse coalition of voices in a campaign. Once again, we see…Read more…
Inflation busting registration fees for health workers
At a time of pay restraint it is not acceptable for regulators to impose inflation busting fee increases on health and care workers.
I was giving evidence today at the Scottish Parliament Health…Read more…
Crazy new immigration rules could wreak chaos
With demands on the NHS increasing all the time, the sudden departure of many highly trained staff as early as 2017 will mean certain chaos for the NHS.Read more…
Kazakhstan: legal shackles on workers’ movement challenged
A challenge to laws that shackle trade unions in Kazakhstan was mounted at the International Labour Conference this month – and activists hope this will boost workers’ efforts to rebuild grass-roots…Read more…
End austerity now
On Saturday June 20 thousands of Unite members joined 250,000 others to send a message to this Tory government that austerity is not working and to “End Austerity Now”. You can view a…Read more…
UAE: one of the terrible ten worst countries for workers’ rights
The United Arab Emirates has made the ITUC’s list of the ten worst countries for workers’ rights abuses, and it’s not hard to see why when you look at the plight of the…Read more…
TTIP, CETA, TISA: We need to call time on zombie trade deals
Trade affects everyone’s lives. It affects the job you can get, the pay you receive and of course the goods you can buy. But trade policy and negotiations like those being conducted for TTIP, CETA and TiSA affect a lot more than that, and come with huge risks for our society. I’ll be speaking…Read more…
EU putting business interests above others
TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady was in Brussels last week for the European Trade Union Confederation executive committee. The executive dealt with many issues of concern to British trade unionists, but none more serious than the concerted effort to restrict and reduce regulatory…Read more…
Assaults on Housing staff survey: Why health & safety is a trade union matter
My grown up job is a housing officer in East London. It was about 10 years ago during an eviction in a flat which had been taken over by violent criminals that I was assured by one of them that he would come back and put an “axe in my F……… head”….Read more…
RMT members launch action on Scottish ferries
Union members work to rule at Calmac over pay, conditions and pensionsRead more…
Farewell to welfare – unions condemn Cameron’s £12bn cuts
Unions say Tory plans mark a dark day for equality in BritainRead more…
“Give us the Living Wage” – London journalists on strike
NUJ members employed by Newsquest take action over pay and redundanciesRead more…
Unions call for death of “zombie” TTIP deal
TUC wants European Parliament to reject trade deals that are not made in the public interestRead more…
#uNDC15 Are you a first time or lone delegate? If so, join us for lunch
Back to last weeks UNISON conference. I thought this initiative by London Region on the Tuesday was fantastic.
Our London regional delegation is over 200 but many delegates are here for the first time or a lone branch delegate.
The Regional lay…Read more…
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Unhappy Birthday: 5 years on, Osborne’s austerity Budget has failed as public debt still heads for 90 % of GDP (Maastricht definition)
Five years ago today, George Osborne published his austerity budget. His philosophy of action was set out a few months ahead of the election in the Mais Lecture (25th February 2010). Deploying the (now somewhat discredited) work by Reinhart and Rogoff (issued in January 2010), he argued “So while…Read more…
Amber axes most cost effective wind projects
The government has effectively cancelled 250 onshore wind projects already in development by cutting the subsidies which would aid their completion. Today’s decision is likely to mean that 2,500 turbines which were due to be built are scrapped. The Energy Secretary argued that consumer bills would…Read more…
Armed Police try to intimade workers’ demo in Wolverhampton:
Gun-toting coppers fail to intimidate Sita protests Conrad Landin Morning Star WORKERS whose demos against the “social dumping” of labour have been met with gun-toting bobbies yesterday defied police…Read more…
Dark day for Britain
Today, Monday June 22, David Cameron has shown how tough he is with further attacks on working people and their families. In a speech he made in Runcorn further cuts of £1,400 from the incomes…Read more…