Blacklist Support Group makes formal submission to the Home Office with suggested Terms of Reference for the Pitchford InquiryRead more…
London Demo: END AUSTERITY NOW!
Indesit drivers and warehouse staff ballot for strike action
Unite members angry over below-inflation pay offerRead more…
Teachers warn of strike ballot after pay talks collapse
EIS says rejected offer fails to address union’s major concernsRead more…
UNISON welcomes Solent University Living Wage pledge
Union praises “positive” step by university bossesRead more…
Unite fights to save Young’s Seafood jobs
Firm says 330 jobs at risk after it loses Sainsbury’s contractRead more…
Cutting Child Tax Credit mainly hurts working families
David Cameron’s speech yesterday ends a lot of speculation: the government seem determined to introduce substantial cuts in Child Tax Credit. The prospect of £12 billion of benefit and tax credit cuts is so horrific that many people refused to believe they were possible. Last month I explained why…Read more…
Education 4 Action @ Durham Miners’ Gala: 7-10th July 2015
Solidarity – This is what it looks like
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Join the call to drop Greece’s debt
The government of Greece is in a battle with creditors to overturn austerity policies which have wreaked havoc on the country. Unemployment has been over 20% for four years. One-third of people now live in poverty. The debt cannot be paid and, for Gree…Read more…
Seafood jobs to fall through net
The potential loss of up to 300 jobs at Young’s Seafood in Grimsby is extremely worrying news to the workforce and the local economy. The company has lost a vital contract with Sainsbury’s and…Read more…
Government wrong on testing says NUT… and the CBI
We fought off Michael Gove’s first attempts to impose the EBacc as a narrow and prescriptive exam by building the widest and most diverse coalition of voices in a campaign. Once again, we see…Read more…
Inflation busting registration fees for health workers
At a time of pay restraint it is not acceptable for regulators to impose inflation busting fee increases on health and care workers.
I was giving evidence today at the Scottish Parliament Health…Read more…
Crazy new immigration rules could wreak chaos
With demands on the NHS increasing all the time, the sudden departure of many highly trained staff as early as 2017 will mean certain chaos for the NHS.Read more…
Kazakhstan: legal shackles on workers’ movement challenged
A challenge to laws that shackle trade unions in Kazakhstan was mounted at the International Labour Conference this month – and activists hope this will boost workers’ efforts to rebuild grass-roots…Read more…
End austerity now
On Saturday June 20 thousands of Unite members joined 250,000 others to send a message to this Tory government that austerity is not working and to “End Austerity Now”. You can view a…Read more…
UAE: one of the terrible ten worst countries for workers’ rights
The United Arab Emirates has made the ITUC’s list of the ten worst countries for workers’ rights abuses, and it’s not hard to see why when you look at the plight of the…Read more…
TTIP, CETA, TISA: We need to call time on zombie trade deals
Trade affects everyone’s lives. It affects the job you can get, the pay you receive and of course the goods you can buy. But trade policy and negotiations like those being conducted for TTIP, CETA and TiSA affect a lot more than that, and come with huge risks for our society. I’ll be speaking…Read more…
EU putting business interests above others
TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady was in Brussels last week for the European Trade Union Confederation executive committee. The executive dealt with many issues of concern to British trade unionists, but none more serious than the concerted effort to restrict and reduce regulatory…Read more…
Assaults on Housing staff survey: Why health & safety is a trade union matter
My grown up job is a housing officer in East London. It was about 10 years ago during an eviction in a flat which had been taken over by violent criminals that I was assured by one of them that he would come back and put an “axe in my F……… head”….Read more…