Today’s Morning Star interview with Dave Prentis in which UNISON GS Dave Prentis gives his take on the fight against Tory cuts: Dave Prentis is determined to defeat coalition government assaults...

Members of RMT and TSSA taking strike action from this evening on the tube deserve all our support. Job cuts never improve services - and having fewer staff on the underground network obviously compromises safety. Over the coming months many more of us will face the need to take action...

 Joanne has been nominated by West Ham CLP for the National Policy Forum. She is very active in the London Labour Party and you have probably bumped into her helping out in any close by-election.

One week before the TUC congress and the anti union media ultras are on the attack. Ex Labour councillor turned anti union obsessive Leo McKinstry is quick to jump on the union facility time...

A BBC investigation confirm that Wales could be more vulnerable to spending cuts than other parts of the UK because of the high proportion of people employed in the public...

UNISON members leafletted to save NHS Direct at the Burston Rally, Diss, Norfolk on Sunday. There was a record attendance with speakers including Tony Benn, Ed Balls and Diane Abbott. The rally takes...

"We will not go back to a New Labour agenda based on privatisation, and fragmentation and globalisation that we have had over the past few years” said Dave Prentis in a no holds barred interview with...

Sodexo, Group 4, Siemens, DHL, Tesco among the firms highlighted in a new Human Rights Watch report 'As demonstrated in the cases detailed in this report, some of the largest and best-known European...

"A country's public library service is a sure indicator of how highly it values its citizens, its children and its future. There may well be a place for the new localism around the outer fringes of...

The biggest political lesson to be learned this week is that still even after all these years New Labour just don’t get Scotland. Firstly we had the Dark Lord Mandelson saying that Scotland will soon clamour for the public sector reforms already put in place in England – Er no thanks! Then as if we...

What a lot of old twaddle from the Torygraph and the Tax Avoiders’ Alliance about “millions” being (so called) wasted on time off for trade union stewards and safety reps to represent their members. So every time a rep goes to a meeting with a member or sits down with management to sort out local...

The TPA have been after the Unions for a long time. This and this (explained) has been brewing since before the General Election when the TPA were acting as the 'Storm-Troopers' of CaMorons Big Society reaction. There is one way for Reps to challenge this. If the Employers in Local Authorities and...

Good post by Ian "I reckon the left groups are the worst here. How often do you hear left groups supporting this candidate for leader or that while at the same time championing rank and file power or lay member democracy?...." (I suppose I should ask you to ignore for the moment that most of my...

I've had my dad and his other half down to stay this weekend, and found out some fairly interesting family history. My Dad is a big advocate of the Co-op and basically does as much of his shopping through it as possible (including online) as well as banking with them. This is basically because a)...

Saturday was always going to be tricky for me. It is my normal “bacon buttie” day. I have already said I am a massive carnivore and bacon is probably the foodstuff I love more than anything else in...

 Congratulations then are in order to Lutfur Rahman who was clearly elected yesterday by Tower Hamlets Labour Party to be their candidate for Mayor. The election will take place on 21 October 2010. Commiserations of course to the other candidates (see my post on John Biggs). The local...

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In 2010 lazy journalism is to recycle Freedom of Information requests (garnered at great public expense) and dress them up as an investigation: ...

Good coverage on the TUC’s Touchstone blog of the controversy surrounding the attendance of BBC Director General Mark Thompson at a Downing street briefing on how to spin the Con Dem Government’s...