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Just back from North Wales seeing family, giving and receiving presents as well as eating and drinking too much. I also managed to fit in a couple of lovely walks (see picture) which I will post about another time.
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year an…
The TUC has joined a campaign launched by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to call on the government of Kazakhstan to respect the rights of workers in the country to form and join…
Migration Watch, the anti-immigration organisation, published a report yesterday calling for the UK to leave the single market to reduce net EU immigration. Like so much of what is said about migration, the incomplete nature of the argument is deliberately misleading. In particular, Migration Watch…
This moment has been coming for a long time.In the early twentieth century, British politics grew up from being a battle between “liberal” and “conservative” wings of the ruling class and became, by the mid-twentieth century about the conflict between representatives of the working class and of the…
This is my review of the highlights of 2016 . Compiled for the Morning Star (who published it here) this is the original. The Star is excellent at shaping my sometimes unweildy prose into shorter…
When we look back, 2016 will be remembered as the year the establishment was shaken to its core. And yet the political turmoil has not benefited working people – and few feel they have taken back…
While not pretending that there is not a significant risk let us examine facts not emotion.
– Such as far more people were murdered by terrorism in my youth than now?
– Such as 24 Americans were murdered by terrorists between 2005 and 2015 but there …
School cleaners who went on strike over pay sacked before Christmas Jeremy Corbyn condemns dismissal of Kinsley school trio who protested against wage cuts after service was outsourced School…
Positions of U.S. Trade Unions One of the biggest problems facing the American working class and people is that the voice of the working class is effectively silenced. Not only are relatively few…
A few years back I started pulling together a list of reforms that were enacted despite dire warnings of unintended consequences. As Albert Hirschman (PBUH) pointed out, despite the focus of conservative/reactionary voices on uninte…
A few random thoughts that kept coming up during 2016…
It is not the case that different stakeholder interests within the firm necessarily align, even over the long term. As we learnt recently, for instance, some stakeholders will actively lobby aga…
Comment Evening Standard 20 December 2016
“The latest “mega-merger” of London-based housing associations represents a threat to our members and to Londoners in need of housing. When Circle Housing joined Affinity Sutton to create Clarion, it stated it would not recognise trade unions. This is…
The Government has this morning released details of a month-old crackdown on alleged illegal working in nail bars, part of the year old Operation Magnify. The actual operation took place at the end of last month, and resulted in 97 people being held, a…
Thousands of textile workers in the Dhaka suburb of Ashulia in Bangladesh have been sacked following protracted strikes this month over wages and other issues. The legitimate claims of workers in the…
Download the lastest Newsletter from the United Steelworkers for Chemical Workers by clicking here. December 20106. Issue number 6 Thanks to Kent Holsing.
