Reports that Dairy Crest’s chief executive will skim off a £1.2m bonus in a proposed takeover deal, while the workers are being offered a miserly pay rise was branded as ‘rank hypocrisy’ by Unite…Read more…
Community leaders march on Parliament:
England’s 9,000 parish councils are marching on the Houses of Parliament on 30 June 2015 in a ‘lobby day’ to meet with Members of Parliament. Scores of local (parish and town) council representatives…Read more…
Hatfield mine to close: Imported coal will fuel the Northern Powerhouse
Employee-owned Hatfield Colliery, Yorkshire, has ceased production of coal 12 months earlier than planned. BIS Minister Anna Soubry reportedly refused a last minute request by local MP Ed Miliband and the mine’s chair, John Grogan, to provide a £12m loan to the mine to stay open for a further year….Read more…
UPDATE: TSSA members join RMT members in voting for Tube strike action
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Same old story: households having to run down savings and calling a halt to deleveraging
For 2015Q1 GDP growth is now estimated at 0.4% (revised up from 0.3%). Growth was last lower than this in 2012 (Q4 when it was -0.4%), at the height of worries about the double dip, and with the Chancellor poised to reign in his austerity policies. Whi…Read more…
Isle of Wight Council to be Combined Authority
It has long been known that the Isle of Wight Council would eventually be dismantled by the Government. A recent letter to Government by Isle of Wight council is open to the idea of being brought…Read more…
Trade unions quiz Labour leadership hopefuls live at 11am
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8 ways you can help #BarnetStrikers
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Workers ballot for action after firm sees upturn in business
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UCU members at Bradford College walk out over pay
Union says answer to colleges’ financial difficulties is not to axe staffRead more…
Be cool during heatwave, unions tells bosses
TUC calls on employers to temporarily relax workplace dress codesRead more…
Complaint to the FRC about Caledonia Investments
So far no-one has come back and said I’m talking rubbish about Caledonia Investments’ failure to disclose political donations in its annual report. The company’s AGM is coming up in two weeks, and the first item on the agenda is the approval of the ann…Read more…
Bevan’s Dreamers to Builders: 5 July 1945 Anniversary Tee-shirt by Philosophy Football
Been a gap but another great tee-shirt from Philosophy Football. This time to honour the socialist wordsmith, Aneurin Bevan and the Labour Government of 1945. This is what democratic principled political power can deliver.
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Child Poverty- Still a national disgrace
I have lost track of the number of Tory-leaning folks I have known over the years who have trained as teachers and then undergone a swift political conversion. Not because the staffroom is…Read more…
Qatar’s council cancels kafala changes
Qatar’s failure to push through its long mooted reforms to the insidious kafala system has left the country’s attempt to portray itself as a slow moving but sincere reformer in tatters. In May 2014,…Read more…
What if I’m not a participant?
On the day the independent living fund ends, Unite Community member Robert Punton tells us how it changed his life – and how it’s demise will affect him. He writes: It is often…Read more…
Stopping the Snooper’s Charter
This evening (June 29), Unite and the Labour Campaign for Human Rights will be holding a Parliamentary event (see below) to explain why we’re opposed to the Investigatory Powers Bill. As we do…Read more…
UNISON calls on councillors to stop Education privatisation project
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UNISON calls on councillors to stop privatisation project
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“Red flag-waving losers” leap to defence of Durham Miners’ Gala
Supporters of the Gala respond to a letter attacking event in the local pressRead more…