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Monthly rail season ticket cost
🇬🇧Chelmsford➡️London £393🇬🇧Manchester➡️Liverpool £257🇧🇪Ghent➡️Brussels £150🇩🇪Eberswalde➡️Berlin £120🇮🇪Drogheda➡️Dublin £116🇫🇷Etampes➡️Paris £68
The most expensive rail fares in Europe go up 3.1% again today.
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Greedy rail bosses have increased fares by 3.1 per cent today, despite having paid out more than £1bn in dividends to shareholders over the last six years. The TUC revealed the shock findings…Read more…
Unite has launched a specialist helpline to assist migrant workers concerned about immigration issues as the UK leaves the European Union. The helpline, which is operated by Unite legal…Read more…
Unite has called for urgent reforms into how the deaths of workers and members of the public killed and injured in road accidents involving lorries are recorded, after research found a 50 per cent…Read more…
A couple of stories caught my eye over the last few days, both relating to the ownership of infrastructure.
The first piece is from the FT and looks at the dividends paid to the owners of the UK’s airports. This contrasts the amounts paid to sharehol…Read more…
This article in today’s Daily Telegraph shows that the Tories since 2010 will have built the fewest homes since the war.
“new-build housing completions in England between 2010 and 2019 are set to be approximately 130,000 per year. That is w…Read more…
I still have big dreams for this union – and I know you do as well. Together, we can be the bridge that takes our members and our country from an imperfect present to a better future. We can grow…Read more…
Clwydian Range, Christmas Eve 2018
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Apologies to friends, colleagues and family who have sent me Christmas cards and have not received any back.
I have made a donation instead. This year to the Housing and Homeless Charity Shelter. https://england.shelter.org.uk/donate
My first ro…Read more…
As most people will be aware, the revised UK Corporate Governance Code kicks in next year, and an important element of it relates to “employee voice”. At the risk of overstating things, the change in the Code is significant as, for the first time in it…Read more…
A few weeks ago this very charming “farewell” was published on “West Ham Labour” Facebook page by William Truscott, who is the Canadian Great Grandson of George & Hannah Truscott.
Modern day William Truscott described how his great grandfather had…Read more…
Support Adrian Weir (@AMJWeir) Standing for NPF seat on the London Labour Party Regional ExecutiveRead more…
I am back in London after spending Christmas with family in beautiful North Wales. On Christmas Eve, Gill and I went for a fantastic 8.3 mile circular walk to the Jubilee Tower at the top of Moel Famau, starting and finishing in Llanbedr village.
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In her New Year’s message, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady calls on people to have the final say on BrexitRead more…
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“Almost one in five of Britain’s biggest companies paid not a penny of corporation tax in the UK last year, it can be revealed.
The Mail on Sunday has managed to obtain the details of the tax paid by 69 of the FTSE 100 group of largest companies …Read more…
‘Heart Unions Week’ 2019
Unions have agreed to organise a ‘Heart Unions’ week of campaigning, 11 -17 February 2019. Please put these dates in your diary and start to think about how you can celebrate being proud to be a union member.
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In the run-up to Christmas, Unite and its members have celebrated many victories – in the last two weeks alone, workers at poultry producer Two Sisters, Gatwick Airport and housing charity Shelter…Read more…
Merry Christmas 2018 everyone. Hat tip Cllr StroppybirdRead more…