Following a 12 year campaign, a statue of Jamaican-born nurse Mary Seacole – the first memorial statue of a named black woman in the UK – was unveiled yesterday (June 30) on the grounds of St. Thomas…Read more…
UK workers reject a Brexit cuts budget says post-referendum poll
The TUC has published findings from a poll taken immediately after the EU referendum ballot closed, and its action plan for protecting jobs and industry. The poll – of 2,716 adults who voted in the…Read more…
Study shows the public wants the government to pay for the training of student nurses, says UNISON
The government should continue to pay for the training of student nurses and midwives, and not force NHS trainees to fund their degrees with loans, according to a new survey published today (Friday)…Read more…
A Manifesto For Today’s World Of Work
01 July 2016
By Carolyn Jones, Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC
THE world of work has changed and with it the nature and role of the workforce. For Britain’s 31 million workers, many of the…Read more…
Isle of Wight Labour Party members support Corbyn:
Isle of Wight Labour Party members ‘overwhelmingly support Corbyn’ Members of the Labour Party on the Isle of Wight voted on a motion to show their support for Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy…Read more…
What the government must do right now to stop working people paying the price for the Leave vote
Still scarred by the effects of the 2008 financial crash, working people and their communities must not be asked to pay the price – again – of economic uncertainty following the vote to leave the EU. The TUC does not agree with the Chancellor that the fundamentals of the UK economy are sound. Only…Read more…