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Cathy come home: 50th anniversity tonight on BBC4

Jul 31, 2016By John's Labour blog

“In 1966 the powerful Cathy Come Home shone a light on the desperate housing problems gripping Britain at the time. When the programme first aired, the extent of the crisis shocked the nation – 3 million people were living in slums or stuck in a brutal private renting market. It was a far cry from…Read more…

Jul 31, 2016John's Labour blog

Sunday Night Live: 30 July 2016 Social Movements – The end of politics as we know it?

Jul 30, 2016By John's Labour blog

“Prior to our pause for the August break, come join us at our Sunday Night Live Summer Salon where we’ll be discussing the rise social movements, implications for politics and political parties.
 The fastest growing political movements across the left and right the world over are those who…Read more…

Jul 30, 2016John's Labour blog

TUC found that between 2007 and 2015 in the UK, real wages fell by 10.4%, the joint lowest in OECD countries

Jul 30, 2016By John's Labour blog

I think this is one of the real reasons for Brexit.  No wonder so many people feel angry and betrayed in the face of such a massive cut in wages. 
Employment may be relatively high but evidently most of these jobs are insecure and have rotten…Read more…

Jul 30, 2016John's Labour blog

Why EU citizens in Britain shouldn’t be used as negotiating pawns

Jul 30, 2016By Touchstone blog

The TUC is only one of many groups in Britain calling for citizens of other EU countries currently living and working in the UK to be given the right to remain when we leave the European Union. Others who support the position include the CBI, IOD, orga…Read more…

Jul 30, 2016Touchstone blog

50 councils face residents’ objections to LOBO loans

Jul 29, 2016By John's Labour blog

Check out MJ article (Municipal Journal – you need to have a paid account unfortunately) on the up to 50 objections by residents in different Councils (including Newham) at the use of  “controversial Lender Option Borrower Option (LOBO) loans,

a…Read more…

Jul 29, 2016John's Labour blog

Tanzania and Uganda stand up against unfair EU-East Africa Economic Partnership Agreement

Jul 29, 2016By Stronger Unions

There was hopeful news for trade unions in East Africa last week as Tanzania and Uganda refused to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and East African Community countries  —…Read more…

Jul 29, 2016Stronger Unions

No, don’t leave executive pay to the shareholders

Jul 29, 2016By Labour And Capital

Alex Edmans has a blog on executive pay on HBR here. It’s wrong-headed in my view, so here’s a largely sarcasm and swearing-free response to it.
Politicians typically make two suggestions for pay reform. First, to cap, or at least force the disclosure of, the ratio of CEO pay to median employee…Read more…

Jul 29, 2016Labour And Capital

A fairer national minimum wage remains an ‘urgent need’

Jul 29, 2016By Dave Prentis blog

UNISON reasserts the ‘ultimate goal’ for UK minimum wage policy, in its submission to the Low Pay Commission

The article A fairer national minimum wage remains an ‘urgent need’ first…Read more…

Jul 29, 2016Dave Prentis blog

Hinkley delay slammed

Jul 29, 2016By UNITElive

The Tory government announced a further delay on the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station last night (July 28) just hours after French company EDF gave the project the green light.   The…Read more…

Jul 29, 2016UNITElive

Day 8: From protest to politics

Jul 29, 2016By Eric Lee

In the mid-1960s, not long after the March on Washington, the organizer of that historic protest, Bayard Rustin, wrote an article. It was called “From protest to politics”. Rustin argued…Read more…

Jul 29, 2016Eric Lee

Industrial Strategy – What Is To Be Done?

Jul 29, 2016By Power In A Union

By David Bailey, Professor of Industrial Strategy at the Aston Business School The new government under Theresa May has brought with it a marked change of tone on industrial strategy. Whereas the…Read more…

Jul 29, 2016Power In A Union

Report of our last meeting in the Guardian

Jul 29, 2016By NUJ Brighton & Sussex branch

Umit Ozturk, speaking at the Craft Beer Co. Photo by Fred PipesReport by John…Read more…

Jul 29, 2016NUJ Brighton & Sussex branch

The legacy of Chris Wilkes (18/12/57-18/03/16)

Jul 29, 2016By Ian Manborde

Dear Colleagues,

Yesterday at Ruskin College we held a memorial event to celebrate the life of Chris Wilkes, the Principal of Ruskin College who died unexpectedly on 18th March.

The event drew many current staff members, and a diverse body of ex-Rusk…Read more…

Jul 29, 2016Ian Manborde

Special Branch Meeting Poster

Jul 28, 2016By RMT Waterloo Branch
Jul 28, 2016RMT Waterloo Branch

EU must hold Turkish president accountable for press freedom violations

Jul 28, 2016By USIlive

We can’t remain silent while journalists are being arrested by dozensRead more…

Jul 28, 2016USIlive

19th century Irish history – help needed

Jul 28, 2016By The revolution will be streamed

I’ve been researching my family for a few years with a view to writing their story. My mother’s family were the Bolands – major figures in the Irish revolutionary movements pre-independence and government ministers in the decades afterwards. I’m trying to go back over four generations. The more…Read more…

Jul 28, 2016The revolution will be streamed

Day 7: Putin’s Party

Jul 28, 2016By Eric Lee

A few years after the second world war, a strange book was published in New York City.  It was called The Russian Menace to Europe and judging by the title, one would imagine it was one of many books…Read more…

Jul 28, 2016Eric Lee

Standing firm

Jul 28, 2016By UNITElive

Wood Group oil workers, around 400 members of Unite and the RMT, staged a solid strike on Tuesday (July 26) in what was the first North Sea strike in three decades.   The 24-hour stoppage was in…Read more…

Jul 28, 2016UNITElive

Bottom of the pile

Jul 28, 2016By UNITElive

British wages fell by 10.4 percent between 2007 and 2015 new TUC analysis has found, lower than anywhere else in Europe except Greece.   UK workers suffered the biggest drop in real wages…Read more…

Jul 28, 2016UNITElive

Too far, too fast

Jul 28, 2016By UNITElive

Unite called on Lloyds Banking Group to give a no compulsory redundancy guarantee today (July 28) as the banking group announced a further 3,000 job losses and the closure of 200 branches by the end…Read more…

Jul 28, 2016UNITElive
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