By Philip Pearson of the TUC At the very time when manufacturing should be expanding its share of UK GDP, its contribution is now lower than in 2010. Evidence suggests that our ‘foundation…Read more…
National Express board losing shareholder support over labour rights?
Big news tonight – the FT has reported that the major proxy voting adviser ISS has recommended that shareholders vote FOR Resolution 22 at the National Express AGM next week. PIRC has also recommended a vote in favour.
Resolution 22 calls on the board…Read more…
Manufacturing in the balance?
From the latest official figures, it looks as if manufacturing’s share of GDP is hovvering well below pre-recession levels. A TUC briefing, Manufacturing in the balance suggests that our ‘foundation industries’, the productive heartland of UK manufacturing, are losing businesses and jobs at a…Read more…
Tower Hill to Mayfair, the Message is the Same
WORKERS from London’s Crossrail project where Rene Tkacik was killed last year were among those who gathered by the statue of the Unknown Building Worker on Tower Hill on Tuesday morning, April…Read more…
Stop London’s ‘social cleansing’
Unite Community is launching a London-wide campaign bringing together residents whose estates are threatened by regeneration schemes which divide communities and force families from the areas they…Read more…
Labour’s rural lifeline
Labour has pledged to replace the Agricultural Wages Board with a new taskforce – it revealed yesterday (April 28) in the launch of its new rural manifesto. Outlining how Labour would ensure…Read more…
House of cards
The Tory election campaign has been built on one premise and one premise alone – that it was their government who was responsible for an economy now bouncing back, and that it was their austerity…Read more…
URGENT update – IMPORTANT MESSAGE
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Pensions and infrastructure investment
Scottish pension funds should be used as a force for good as well as delivering high quality pensions for our members.
I was giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament Local Government Committee this…Read more…
Examining the reactions to our flagging GDP (a.k.a. the slowest recovery on record ever getting even slower)
A number of themes emerged in the different media commentaries on yesterday’s poor GDP results that are worth further examination: the idea expressed that the figures are highly uncertain and will be heavily revised; that weaker UK growth is in the context of ‘rising instability abroad’ (an…Read more…
Collective Bargaining in Ireland: lessons for Westminster?
29 April 2015
By Michael Doherty, Professor of Law and Head of the Department of Law at Maynooth University, Ireland
The voluntarist system of employment relations that exists in Ireland is, of…Read more…
The most important election of a generation
There’s a part every one of us can play in protecting our NHS, jobs and job security and turning around the cost of living crisis – by voting on 7 May.Read more…
Additional support needs are stretched to the limit
#STUC15. Additional support
needs for pupils, particularly those who start at a disadvantage, are stretched
to the limit with children not getting the support they are entitled to.
That
was the concern expressed by UNISON’s Susan Kennedy at the STUC 2015. Susan was speaking in support of an
EIS motion on additional support needs and local authority cuts.
Susan
said ‘Once again,Read more…
RMT hits back at “Gestapo” jibe as Peter Hendy is forced to apologise for calling services “shit”
Union says privatisation and profiteering, not staff, has wrecked train servicesRead more…
Union outrage as ferry captain ruled guilty of homicide
Nautilus International criticises a South Korean court’s decision to sentence Lee Joon-seok to life imprisonmentRead more…
“Extreme” Tory cuts will hit low-paid families with children, warns TUC
IFS analysis also shows Tories will cut taxes for the better offRead more…
Midshipman George L. Drewry VC RNR
Yesterday morning I attended a Commemorative Stone Ceremony at the Cenotaph in Central Park, East Ham, Newham, London.
It was to mark the unveiling of the first of 5 paving stones to be placed at the Cenotaph to remember the heroism of …Read more…
Save London Met University!
http://savelondonmetuni.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/hands-off-london-met-defending-jobs-and.html?m=1
I was proud to have been invited to speak at this evening’s meeting in support of the campaign to save jobs (and education) at London Metropolitan University.
60 people, including lecturers, support…Read more…
Kill a Worker, Go to Jail!
April 28, Day of Mourning for Workers Killed or Injured on the Job The Demand Remains the Same: Kill a Worker, Go to Jail! April 28, the Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job, is…Read more…
Voters have straight choice between Dr Louise Irvine and Jeremy Hunt
Suspension of Lib Dem in South West Surrey means voters have straight choice between Dr Louise Irvine and Jeremy Hunt “The suspension of Patrick Haveron means I am now the only candidate able to beat…Read more…