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The Fair Work Agenda: Labour Leadership Contenders on Fair Work and Trade Unions

Aug 8, 2015By John's Labour blog

Check out this very useful report by Unions21 on where all  the Labour Leadership candidates stand on Fair work and trade unions.

“The exam question Labour’s leadership candidates were posed for our new publication was set by the Unions21 steering committee: “Outline your views on fair…Read more…

Aug 8, 2015John's Labour blog

Reduction in the Working Week – Guards/Commercial Guards – South West Trains

Aug 8, 2015By RMT Waterloo Branch

      To All Branches, Regional Offices & Regional Councils Circular No IR.191/15    Our Ref: BR2/000410th August…Read more…

Aug 8, 2015RMT Waterloo Branch

Ending right to buy “full stop”

Aug 8, 2015By Martin Wicks

“Tackling the Housing Crisis”, produced for Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign for the Labour leadership stands in stark contrast to New Labour’s housing policy. The document recognises the need for a large scale council house building programme to tackle the crisis. It’s a welcome…Read more…

Aug 8, 2015Martin Wicks

4 October National March & Rally – programme confirmed

Aug 8, 2015By UNISON Active

#4Oct British trade unions are facing a full frontal attack. Government spending on public services and the welfare state is being rolled back decades. It has never been more important for trade…Read more…

Aug 8, 2015UNISON Active

Memorial to 5 Beckenham Fire Fighters killed by Enemy Action in West Ham Ward

Aug 7, 2015By John's Labour blog

Last Saturday I posted on a London Loop walk here http://grayee.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/london-loop-walk-section-4-west-wickham.html in rural Croydon, South London.

I was astonished to later find out that a memorial in a Church grave yard in West Wickh…Read more…

Aug 7, 2015John's Labour blog

The secret sanctions figures

Aug 7, 2015By UNITElive

The government is stopping payments to nearly three times as many jobseekers as their official figures suggest, according to new research by the Guardian newspaper.   And the numbers being…Read more…

Aug 7, 2015UNITElive

It just isn’t working

Aug 7, 2015By UNITElive

One of the present Tory government’s favourite mantras, that its “long-term economic plan” is “working”, is a classic example of effective propaganda – repeat it often enough and, in the minds of the…Read more…

Aug 7, 2015UNITElive

How the exit payment cap will hit career public servants a long way from senior management…

Aug 7, 2015By Jon's union blog

Yesterday, I congratulateda colleaguefor highlighting the Government’s consultationon the “exit payment cap”. This has been presented as being about limiting excessive severance payments to public sector “fat cats” – with a ceiling on payments of £95,000.
However, because the “cap” will include the…Read more…

Aug 7, 2015Jon's union blog

Stranger danger

Aug 7, 2015By UNITElive

It’s a busy Friday night in Leeds city centre and thousands of people are enjoying the myriad clubs, pubs and restaurants on offer.   Most are here to enjoy a social evening with their…Read more…

Aug 7, 2015UNITElive

‘Hope finally on offer’

Aug 7, 2015By UNITElive

Liam McCafferty, postgraduate education officer for the University of East Anglia’s students union, is one of Unite’s newest members – he just signed up this week.   McCafferty, 23, has been…Read more…

Aug 7, 2015UNITElive

Dying for your iPhone: Another suicide at Foxconn factory in China

Aug 7, 2015By USIlive

A 28-year old male worker at the Foxconn factory at Zhengzhou has committed suicide by jumping from a building.Read more…

Aug 7, 2015USIlive

Carney-age at the Bank

Aug 7, 2015By UNITElive

As the Bank of England dumped a data reservoir of cold water over Osborne’s claims of a ‘motoring’ economy and economic miracle, the Governor is spinning in no man’s land between the two views….Read more…

Aug 7, 2015UNITElive

Chancellor’s dead hand on community energy schemes

Aug 7, 2015By Touchstone blog

George Osborne clearly intends to put a brake on community-led solar power schemes just at the point when they are cutting carbon, reducing green energy costs, creating jobs and winning public support. Unfortunately, his Treasury-led, austerity-led pla…Read more…

Aug 7, 2015Touchstone blog

Victory for community action

Aug 7, 2015By UNITElive

Unite community member Paul Rooney, a Bromley resident and full-time carer of his severely disabled daughter, has been granted a stay of eviction today (August 7) after being mistakenly served with a…Read more…

Aug 7, 2015UNITElive

The Global Money Addiction (interest rate dilemmas in context)

Aug 7, 2015By Touchstone blog

“Faced by failure of credit, they have proposed only the lending of more money”, Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his inaugural address, 4 March 1933 Debate around UK monetary policy recognises all is far from normal through the idea that when rate rises finally come, they will be limited in extent….Read more…

Aug 7, 2015Touchstone blog

Private equity is still a "force for good"

Aug 7, 2015By Labour And Capital

A few years back, I noticed that the phrase “a force for good” was being used with remarkable consistency by people in, or working with, the private equity industry. So I thought I’d do a quick google to see if that was still the case. No real surprise…Read more…

Aug 7, 2015Labour And Capital

COSATU slams violence on South African trains

Aug 7, 2015By USIlive

South African union federation threatens strike action if safety concerns on Cape Town commuter trains are not addressed.Read more…

Aug 7, 2015USIlive

Swazi unions win AFL-CIO Human Rights award

Aug 7, 2015By USIlive

The George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award in 2015 recognizes the courage and persistence of Swaziland’s workers in demanding their rights in one of the world’s most autocratic countries.Read more…

Aug 7, 2015USIlive

What sort of industrial policy do we really need? Part One.

Aug 7, 2015By Power In A Union

By David Bailey, Phil Tomlinson and Keith Cowling It seems that the new BIS Secretary Sajid Javid is undertaking a ‘fundamental review’ of the government’s industrial policy as he wonders what a…Read more…

Aug 7, 2015Power In A Union

What sort of industrial policy do we really need? Part Two.

Aug 7, 2015By Power In A Union

By David Bailey, Phil Tomlinson and Keith Cowling The last coalition government’s record in relation to industrial policy has been mixed. George Osborne made promising noises in the early days about…Read more…

Aug 7, 2015Power In A Union
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