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Leeds People’s March for Climate Justice, Jobs and Hope – Saturday 28 November 2015 – 13:00 – Leeds Minster, Kirkgate.

Nov 26, 2015By Leeds Trades Union Council

Leeds Trades Union Council encourages all trade unionists to attend the Leeds People’s March for Climate Justice, Jobs and Hope on Saturday 28 November 2015 at Leeds Minster, Kirkgate…Read more…

Nov 26, 2015Leeds Trades Union Council

No Racism: Refugees Welcome Here

Nov 26, 2015By There is a Better Way

The St Andrew’s Day Anti-Racism March and Rally this year has the theme ‘No Racism: Refugees Welcome Here.’ The rally will take place on Sat 28th Nov, Assemble 10:30am Glasgow Green. Below is a…Read more…

Nov 26, 2015There is a Better Way

Russian and Turkish unions call for workers’ solidarity against war

Nov 26, 2015By USIlive

DİSK in Turkey and KTR in Russia launch joint statement calling for solidarity and condemning war.Read more…

Nov 26, 2015USIlive

Unions condemn murder of Palestinian taxi driver

Nov 26, 2015By USIlive

A Palestinian taxi driver was shot dead after a minor traffic incident with an Israeli settler.Read more…

Nov 26, 2015USIlive

Osborne’s new (very modest) ‘Keynesian’ clothes

Nov 26, 2015By Touchstone blog

Paul Johnson of the IFS has rightly put a stop to the idea that the Spending Review (SR) signalled the end of austerity. But in a very modest way this event continued a ‘Keynesian’* turn. Yesterday I set out the accounting logic (here); the underlying macroeconomic logic could easily be regarded as…Read more…

Nov 26, 2015Touchstone blog

Next step towards low-carbon UK requires 57% emissions reduction by 2030

Nov 26, 2015By Touchstone blog

As the Prime Minister heads off to Paris for the UN talks on climate change, the government’s independent advisers say that “new energy policies” are required to meet the UK’s carbon emissions targets. By the government’s own admission, the UK is 10% over its fourth carbon budget (4CB on our…Read more…

Nov 26, 2015Touchstone blog

Osborne blinks first

Nov 26, 2015By UNITElive

Osborne – with his ‘Caesar’ haircut – stood at the Commons despatch box yesterday with his Labour political opponents in front of him and his Tory political enemies behind him. We all…Read more…

Nov 26, 2015UNITElive

Hunt To Axe Bursaries for Student Nurses

Nov 26, 2015By COHSE

Under the Tories a newly qualified nurse will have £50,000 of debt.

As they axe bursaries and introduce University fees.

This while the NHS is critically short of nurses.

UNISON has long argued that Project 2000 ran the risk of student nurses being treated like other students.

We have always…Read more…

Nov 26, 2015COHSE

Are young people really just scroungers?

Nov 26, 2015By Touchstone blog

There is a growing rhetoric that young people are lazy, work-shy and have an astonishing sense of entitlement. Such smears have been stated by employers, have saturated the media and are echoed by eminent politicians. For example in 2014 David Cameron said: “I want us to end the idea that aged 18…Read more…

Nov 26, 2015Touchstone blog

Defending the European Social Model in the Netherlands

Nov 26, 2015By Touchstone blog

Today, British Minister for Europe David Lidington MP is in the Netherlands to meet Foreign Minister Bert Koenders. The Dutch take over the Presidency of the EU on 1 January, so they will play a crucial role in orchestrating the EU’s response to David Cameron’s pre-referendum…Read more…

Nov 26, 2015Touchstone blog

TUC: Spending Review

Nov 25, 2015By Rtuc's Blog

Despite ‘spectacular’ tax credit u-turn, working people need more on industry, jobs and public services, says TUC   Responding to today’s (Wednesday) Comprehensive Spending Review statement from…Read more…

Nov 25, 2015Rtuc's Blog

#SpendingReview 2015 – the Touchstone blog round up

Nov 25, 2015By Touchstone blog

George Osborne’s first Spending Review of the new parliament has hit the headlines for his spectacular U-turn over drastic cuts to tax credits. It avoids the hardship it would have inflicted on millions of low-paid families, though as Richard Exell points out, the cuts to Universal Credit are…Read more…

Nov 25, 2015Touchstone blog

Become a film mogul & let everyone know how bravery took on apartheid

Nov 25, 2015By Stronger Unions

I’ve just left the launch of an exciting project to inform a new generation about a little-known element of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Grassroots film-makers Barefoot…Read more…

Nov 25, 2015Stronger Unions

Just two cheers for the #spendingreview tax credit U-turn

Nov 25, 2015By Touchstone blog

The headline news in today’s Spending Review and Autumn Statement is the decision not to go ahead with the cuts to tax credits that were due to take place next April. So let’s remember the cuts that were due to come into effect next April, with no protection for the tax credit claimants who…Read more…

Nov 25, 2015Touchstone blog

The spending review’s £3bn hit on local government

Nov 25, 2015By Dave Prentis blog

Cuts to local government grant and extra spending commitments for local authorities add up to a £3bn hit on councils, says UNISON today (Wednesday). UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis said: “Today…Read more…

Nov 25, 2015Dave Prentis blog

No Racism: Refugees Welcome Here

Nov 25, 2015By There is a Better Way

The St Andrew’s Day Anti-Racism March and Rally this year has the theme ‘No Racism: Refugees Welcome Here.’ The rally will take place on Sat 28th Nov, Assemble 10:30am Glasgow Green. Below is a…Read more…

Nov 25, 2015There is a Better Way

Has the #SpendingReview fully funded the NHS?

Nov 25, 2015By Touchstone blog

There are two competing but related health service ‘narratives’ being promoted in the immediate aftermath of the spending review. The first is that George Osborne has listened and delivered the “biggest ever commitment to the NHS since its creation”. The second is that Simon Stevens, head of NHS…Read more…

Nov 25, 2015Touchstone blog

Adult skills and apprenticeships in the #SpendingReview

Nov 25, 2015By Touchstone blog

In one respect the Chancellor’s announcements on skills and apprenticeships in the Spending Review has been viewed as another u-turn with the welcome news that there will not be the degree of cuts to FE colleges and the adult skills budget that was widely anticipated. In addition the Apprenticeship…Read more…

Nov 25, 2015Touchstone blog

Local government funding slashed by half in #SpendingReview

Nov 25, 2015By Touchstone blog

George Osborne made the announcements that business rates will be localised and local councils will be able to add 2 per cent to council tax to fund social care with some fanfare. Both of those are questionable decisions to say the least – more of which later. But in a matter of a couple…Read more…

Nov 25, 2015Touchstone blog

The #SpendingReview arithmetic made simple

Nov 25, 2015By Touchstone blog

The Chancellor’s rabbits from the hat were mainly permitted by changes to the economic forecast. In general these were more eye-catching than material, excepting his U-turn on welfare. The OBR continue to stress the severity of the cuts. It is worth looking at how the arithmetic works out –…Read more…

Nov 25, 2015Touchstone blog
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