Set to be one of the largest bilateral trade agreements every negotiated, TTIP – the mammoth EU-US deal currently being negotiated in secret – has also garnered mammoth media attention. The…Read more…
White Rose: Helping CCS to bloom
Carbon Capture and Storage is critical to meeting climate change targets. Without it decarbonising the economy would cost £32 billion more a year by 2050.
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Corbyn to speak at union event next door to Tory conference
Eleven general secretaries sign statement backing Labour leader’s anti-austerity policiesRead more…
Unite community members join residents in fighting care home bed cuts
Bristol City Council plans to axe five beds at the Bush residential unit for disabled childrenRead more…
Tolpuddle Martyrs’ tale comes to Parliament
Nigel Costley tells MPs what they can learn from the story of six farmworkers transported after campaigning against low payRead more…
Is this why the Tories hate trade unions?
Fascinating chart. Now, I know that not all Tories hate trade unions but none of their MPs voted against the Trade Union Bill second reading on Monday even though this is a basic democratic and human rights issue.
The chart shows that the income of th…Read more…
‘Paltry’ pay offer
Workers at a Leeds printing plate firm are going on a 48-hour strike over a ‘paltry’ pay offer from Sunday morning (September 20). About 50 Unite members at AGFA Graphics, Coal Road, Seacroft…Read more…
High cost of right to buy
More than one hundred thousand council homes across England will have to be sold to fund the Tories’ extension of right to buy, according to a new report released today (September 17) from housing…Read more…
Reduction in the Working Week, Guards/Commercial Guards – South West Trains
To All Branches, Regional Offices & Regional Councils Circular No IR.215/15 Our Ref: BR2/000417th September…Read more…
David, David, David, boy!
The government says a key objective of the feed in tariff “is to give people a direct stake in moving to a low carbon economy.” A new video from the Banister House community solar project makes this appeal to the Prime Minister to stop the proposed tariff cuts: “David, David, David, boy!” an intern…Read more…
Guatemala: joker in the pack holds cards in election run-off
Guatemala has dodged the bullet of a ‘gangster President’, but will those remaining in the contest be willing and able to heal a country tearing itself apart? Guatemala has been gripped by protests…Read more…
Changes could mean sick staff being bullied back to work
UNISON voices concern over government’s changes to fit-for-work service
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Probation staff taking action short of strike
Probation workers are taking action short of strike between now and 2 October
The article Probation staff taking action short of strike first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
London Labour Film Festival 2015: Holding a mirror to working life
It’s very exciting for me to be back in the London Labour Film Festival programme this year (24-26 Sep 2015), as I participated actively in the first festival back in 2012. The LLFF is one of over…Read more…
Unions renew calls for blacklisting enquiry
TUC backs UCATT call to provide support and assistance to all unions whose members were subjected to secret police infiltrationRead more…
You oppose the Bill, now wear the T-shirt
UnionsTogether launches T-shirt to raise awareness of the Trade Union BillRead more…
New TUC president vows to keep fighting Trade Union Bill
UNISON policy director Liz Snape takes over from Prospect’s Leslie ManassehRead more…
KILL THE BILL:
KILL THE BILL: Unions’ remaining powers under threat Morning Star The Trade Union Bill aims to permanently mire labour in court. By Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC MUCH has been said and…Read more…
Jeremy Corbyn casts Punch and Judy aside at Prime Minister’s Questions
by Luke James and Roger Bagley in Parliament JEREMY CORBYN led a revolution in Parliament yesterday by abandoning Punch and Judy politics to put the public’s questions to the Prime Minister. Labour’s…Read more…
Jeremy Corbyn: Thank you all for making this happen
David Martyn Hunt on Flickr (CC-BY) Morning Star Newly elected Labour leader JEREMY CORBYN looks back on 100 days that changed the future of Britain THANK YOU to the Morning Star and its readers for…Read more…