Organisations should consult unions before making changes to contracts that will affect their members, the Court of Appeal has said, in a ruling that could have wide-ranging repercussions for employers. The ruling came in a case brought by public service … Continue reading →Read more…
Support McDonalds’ workers as they ballot for strikes
August 9, 2017 in Bulletins NSSN TUC Congress Rally in Brighton: ‘Fight together to scrap the 1% pay cap and get the Tories out!’ – 1pm Sunday September 10th in the Arundel Suite in the Holiday Inn,…Read more…
EU Single Market:
The EU Single Market Is Incompatible With Labour’s Manifesto Morning Star EU single market membership frustrates any ability to create coherent, integrated, nationalised industries and utilities…Read more…
Communists’ Statement on DPRK US standoff:
Condemn US Warmongering and Threats Against Korea! US Troops and Bases Get Out of Korea! Statement of RCPB(ML) – August 11, 2017 Statement as a PDF RCPBML adds its voice to those of millions of…Read more…
WHAT’S REALLY HAPPENING IN VENEZUELA
– FROM SOMEONE WHO KNOWS by SKWAWKBOX · · Mike Prysner is a former US Army soldier turned documentary-maker, who produces and co-writes The Empire Files for Latin American broadcaster teleSUR…Read more…
Important issues surrounding Steel:
Tata Steel signs new pensions deal BBC Steel company Tata has formally announced it is to separate its UK pension scheme from the business. It could mean a potential merger between the Indian-owned…Read more…
KONP New Briefing:
KONP new briefing to MPs and Councillors 4th August 2017 Keep Our NHS Public NHS crisis: Into the Red Zone Keep Our NHS Public has produced a briefing paper for MPs, councillors and health…Read more…
Sheffield Steelworkers’ Strike:
Warning of more industrial action at Sheffield factory as steelworkers’ strike ends Workers on strike at Rom Ltd, Brightside Lane. Steelworkers who walked out on strike amid claims their…Read more…
We Take a stand for the Just Cause of the Venezuelan People to Uphold the Bolivarian Revolution!
The Ryde Trades Union Council is unapologetically taking a stand to expresses its support for the Venezuelan people in their struggle to defend the Bolivarian Revolution and the sovereignty of the…Read more…
Unison Succeeds in Court Case to Scrap Tribunal Fees
How Unison won the most significant judicial intervention in the history of British Employment Law. On Wednesday 26 July, a grey and rainy morning, UNISON members and staff gathered outside the Supreme Court in London, awaiting the outcome of a … Continue reading →Read more…
Mary Turner (GMB), R.I.P
Mary Turner obituary Guardian Trade unionist who led the GMB for 20 years and was the authentic voice of ordinary men and women Mary Turner spoke a commonsense language that chimed with the hospital…Read more…
Act for our Future – help make new #ClimateChangeBill bigger and better
UNISON members are being urged
to help make Scotland’s new Climate Change Act as strong as possible.
With other members of Stop
Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS), we are disappointed that the Scottish
Government’s proposals for the new Bill are not ambitious enough.
The SCCS Act for our Future
campaign has an easy online E Action. You can click here to email First Minister Nicola SturgeonRead more…
Scandal of Miners’ Pensions:
A freedom of information request has uncovered a major government scandal AUGUST 24TH, 2016 STEVE TOPPLE UK The Canary UK The miners’ strike of 1984/85 is a well-documented event, and is one of…Read more…
Cleaning Staff Hospitals Strike:
‘Some days I feel like I’ll drop dead’ – Britain’s biggest cleaners’ strike Cleaning staff working at four London hospitals are engaged in industrial action for better pay and conditions. Will…Read more…
Unite secures landmark holiday pay legal ruling and warns employers ‘get your house in order’
31 July 2017 Britain’s largest union, Unite today (Monday 31 July) called on employers to urgently get their ‘house in order’ over holiday pay after it secured a landmark legal victory meaning…Read more…
History of Populism:
The people is sublime: the long history of populism, from Robespierre to Trump David Marquand, The New Statesman A spectre of populism is haunting the world’s liberal democracies. Donald…Read more…
The Phenomena of Time Consciousness
(excerpt) Hardial Bains (Circa 1967) The commitment of Socratic life is the individual acts on what he knows, today he goes into the future with the full conviction of his knowledge. He only goes…Read more…
Bags of Rubbish Pile Up in the Streets of Birmingham as Bin Collectors Strike.
Hundreds of thousands of people are affected and collections have been disrupted for weeks. Refuse workers are set to strike until 1 September. From Friday, striking workers increased their…Read more…
Health Canada: ‘Now they want to Market our Blood’:
Health Canada Gives Go-Ahead to Private Pay-for-Plasma Clinic in New Brunswick Protest in Halifax, March 24, 2016, demands province not allow sale of plasma and blood. Health Canada on July 24, gave…Read more…
David Pugh: Keep Island Line in Franchise (KILF) Campaign.
26 July at 11:34 The Taskforce report has been released. Here is our response. ————————————————- KILF…Read more…