On Tuesday evening I went to the launch of #Daretodream in South London with fellow Newham Cllr Rokhsana Fiaz OBE. This was an amazing networking event for young people on how to shape the future of London. The theme was that politics matters to …Read more…
UNISON General Secretary Election – A New Hope
http://www.unisonmanchester.org/national-news/unison-general-secretary-election-tuc-demonstration-in-manchester
I am pleased once more to find myself in agreement with the officers of UNISON’s Manchester Branch – this time about who to recommend to mem…Read more…
Rural employment race to bottom
The National Farmers Union (NFU) of Scotland demanded yesterday (August 5) that the Scottish government abolish the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board (SAWB). Unite has slammed the NFU warning…Read more…
Bosses ‘not to be trusted’
The roll-out of a Smart meter installation programme across London and southern and western England will be hit when EDF Energy staff stage two days of strike action later this month in a dispute…Read more…
The ghost of check-off past – Danny Alexander returns to haunt Matt Hancock
Cabinet Office Minster Matt Hancock MP took everyone by surprise with today’s last-minute addition to the Trade Union Bill. In revealing plans to abolish check-off (the process by which employers deduct union subscriptions directly from wages) arrangements for union members in the public…Read more…
The Corbyn ‘phenomenon’
A tragedy is being played out on the outskirts of fortress Britain where refugees attempting to escape conflict and misery have gathered. Values of tolerance and social justice are being…Read more…
Come clean, ministers
Ministers should come clean about how stopping public sector union members paying their membership dues though the long-standing payroll ‘check off’ system will achieve a saving of £6.5m to the…Read more…
Stop end to check off threat
Unite assistant general secretary Gail Cartmail spoke today (August 6) on BBC Radio 4’s World at Oneprogramme in defence of check-off, a system by which union members have their dues…Read more…
A most spiteful act
Check-off, the system by which union members’ subscriptions are automatically deducted from their salaries, has come under threat as the government unveiled today (August 6) measures that would end…Read more…
Nightmare of the night shift
As the second day of a two-day strike among tube workers kicks off today (August 6), many commuters may wonder what the fuss is all about. Don’t tube drivers get £50,000 a year? Hasn’t London…Read more…
“Sex work should not cost me my life”
Sex workers in Cape Town, South Africa, demonstrate to demand justice for murdered colleagueRead more…
‘Now we have a real voice’
With less than a week left to go for the deadline to sign up to vote in the Labour leadership election on August 12, Labour supporters up and down the country are preparing for what’s set to be a…Read more…
“Inappropriate, over the top, dire, painful, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, restrictive and unimaginative”
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‘Check off’ to end:
Automatic union fee payments ‘to end in public sector’ Plans to stop public sector workers automatically paying subscriptions to trade unions through their salaries have been unveiled by…Read more…
Burgess blows the whistle on Tory sneak attack upon our pension rights
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Monetary policy committee minutes betray worries about the economy?
In spite of fevered speculation about rate rises in the not too distant future, only one member of the MPC voted for interest rate rises (Ian McCafferty of the CBI). The minutes betray some concerns about the underlying momentum of the economy going forward. On GDP the Committee note that…Read more…
Government’s union membership changes are aimed at undermining public service workers’ rights
The Trade Union Bill keeps getting bigger as the Government find more ways they can rebalance power away from the workforce. The rapidly increasing package of measures contained in the Bill seeks to reduce the capacity of unions to represent people at …Read more…
Scotland remembers Hiroshima and Nagasaki
#nomorehiroshimas Seventy years ago today the first atomic bomb was dropped by the US aircraft Enola Gay on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, with a second bomb dropped on Nagasaki three days later.
The impact was truly devastating, killing at least 70,000 instantly in Hiroshima, and tens of thousands more through radiation sickness. It has had immense long term repercussions on the health ofRead more…
Attacks on unions are attacks on working people too, says UNISON
UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis commens on government proposals to prevent people who work in the public sector from paying their union membership fees directly from their wages.
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Two decades’ privatisation in just a year
Osborne plans £32bn ‘sale of the century’ Morning Star CHANCELLOR George Osborne will privatise public assets this year worth more than the last two decades of sell-offs combined, new analysis showed…Read more…