Monday 30 March 2015Seventy workers in Glasgow Council’s Homeless Service will walk out on Tuesday 31 March in a dispute over their pay grade.
The workers are all members of the trade union UNISON and will take all out, indefinite strike action in a dispute over the application of the council’s job evaluation scheme to the role of Homelessness Caseworkers. Three out of every fourRead more…
Blacklisting – still going on?
A damning new report by the Scottish Affairs Committee (SAC) published on Friday (March 27), found that construction companies involved in the blacklisting scandal have hardly atoned for their sins. It’s been six years since the Information Commissioner’s Office first discovered a database containing the names of more than 3,000 construction workers. Those […]
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National Gallery Workers Strike:
National Gallery: Loach defies artists to back sell-off strike Conrad Landin Threatened workers petition PM Cameron FILM director Ken Loach challenged fellow artists yesterday to support striking…Read more…
Smurfit Strike:
Union calls for strike action in dispute over workers at Northampton firm The Smurfit Kappa headquarters in Moulton Way, Northampton. 07:30Sunday 29 March 2015 More than 100 workers at a major…Read more…
Unite consultation shows ‘massive support’ for North Sea Strike Action
27 March 2015 Unite’s consultative ballot of members covered by the Offshore Contractors Agreement (OCA) has shown ‘massive support’ for industrial action in response to attacks on jobs, pay and…Read more…
Win! Union strikes first blow in zero hours contract dispute
GMB welcomes move to offer 150 permanent jobs in Marks and Spencer warehouseRead more…
Blow to Scottish economy
Rolls-Royce is set to deliver a blow to the Scottish economy as it announced plans on Friday (March 27) to further axe over 200 jobs at two aircraft engine plants in Inchinnan and East Kilbride. An estimated 180 jobs will be cut at the Inchinnan site, which manufactures aircraft engines, and will entail slashing […]
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There are just three weeks left to register to vote
With everything pointing to the closest election in a generation, and some seats destined to be decided by just a handful of votes, all of us have the power to make a difference – so make sure you’re…Read more…
Charities bring Easter cheer
Food banks are gearing up to address growing demand during the Easter school holidays. Hard-pressed parents have to step in with lunches normally provided free at a school and may rely on charitable food banks for the kids meals. As well as three-day food parcels, charity the Trussell Trust will provide Easter eggs as […]
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Igniting a passion for learning
Anne Heavey is a policy officer at ATL. The mood at Stanley Park High is a happy one, in which all students and staff are united in joint purpose – learning. The students were engaged in their…Read more…
U.S. Pressure Fails to Stop New Development Bank
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank In October 2014, twenty-one Asian nations discussed and signed on to create a new development bank for Asia, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)….Read more…
Yemen
U.S. Authorizes Saudi Arabian Military Aggression On March 26, Saudi Arabia initiated airstrikes against Yemen killing some 39 civilians, according to news agencies. The action came after extensive…Read more…
Canada’s Economic Existential Crisis
A New Direction for the Economy – K.C. Adams – Part One: Problems in the Manufacturing Sector A modern economy is a complicated organism. Without all its parts functioning in harmony, the organism…Read more…
North Sea strike gets closer after unions vote ‘Yes’ in consultative ballot
GMB and Unite members angry at attacks on their pay and conditionsRead more…
Government’s justification for introducing ET fees is based on myths
Thompsons Solicitors say fees are denying workers justiceRead more…
Meet the Martyrs – Tolpuddle trail brings tale to life
Visitors to the Dorset village can listen to Maxine Peake tell the story of the agricultural workers transported to Australia after forming a unionRead more…
Probation in crisis as Sodexo culls one in three jobs
Napo believes company is not going to honour agreed voluntary redundancy schemeRead more…
“Pupils twist things” – school staff call for anonymity to protect them against false accusations
ATL survey shows one in three staff have been victims of false allegationsRead more…
Message from Mogadishu
Over the weekend, we received the following report from our brother Omar Faruk Osman, the journalists’ union leader who is General Secretary of the Somali equivalent of the TUC, the Federation…Read more…
Stratford, Finchley & Ilford Labour Campaign Day and the more people see of Ed Miliband – the more they like him
Saturday was a busy campaigning day. In the morning I went to the Sarah Sackman’s headquarters in Finchley & Golders Green, to help deliver leaflets on behalf of “trade unions together” (TULO). This was a really well organised office with a fr…Read more…