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Ahead of next week’s Sports Direct company AGM, the company’s Chair Keith Hellawell is coming under increasing pressure from unions and minority shareholders
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Life expectancy at birth has increased by three years for every decade according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics. For men life expectancy at birth has increased from 51…Read more…
Nissan’s decision to go-ahead with the next generation Juke car is ‘another positive step in the renaissance of the British car industry’, Unite has said. The estimated £100m investment in the…Read more…
Yesterday, as market volatility continued, GDP figures were issued showing Canada now in ‘technical’ recession. It was a close call, with quarterly growth in 2015 Q2 at -0.1 per cent, following a fall of -0.2 in Q1. But few seem in doubt that conditions in this G8 economy are a worry. The chart…Read more…
Unite is calling on the government to investigate the adverse impact of the planned closure of the Eggborough coal-fired power station in West Yorkshire which will bring job losses in the region’s…Read more…
At least 744,000 jobs in the UK come with zero hours contracts, a 20% rise in the last year alone, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics. The TUC estimates there are…Read more…
Unite has condemned the Northern Ireland Executive over the implementation of its budget which has forced brutal cuts on the Higher Education sector, resulting in almost 200 job losses at the…Read more…
Every day seems to bring a new media-generated hoo-ha about what Jeremy Corbyn may or may not have said. As Owen Jones warns, we’d better get used to it. The vast armoury of the Tory press is trained…Read more…
Earning below the living wage is the norm for part-time women workers in more than 130 parliamentary constituencies, according to new research carried out by the TUC to mark Part-time Equal Pay Day….Read more…
The Financial Times reported last night that David Cameron had dropped plans to demand widespread exemptions from European Union workplace rights. The TUC has been warning that those demands were on his agenda for months (often pooh-poohed by ‘experts’), and we have been arguing that…Read more…
Over 100 organisations have appealed to the Prime Minister over the Chancellor’s plans to cut support for the solar power industry. The government, strangely shy about the employment impact of hazarding a £33bn industry. All DECC will admit to in its consultation paper is: “There is likely…Read more…
The Chinese stock market bubble has burst and China has had its own “Black Monday” (on 23 August). Its economic growth is slowing down and the after effects of the turmoil in its stock market and…Read more…
On Friday (August 28) a group of young activists gathered outside trendy bars and restaurants on Glasgow’s Ashton Lane to protest at a multi-million pound chain paying staff below the living wage. …Read more…
Plans by the government to penalise businesses which fail to pay the national minimum way and the living wage have drawn a sceptical response from Unite. Britain’s largest union has warned it…Read more…
Unite has firmly rejected government proposals to cap the amount in tips restaurants can deduct from waiting staff. The union — which has led a campaign for tipping fairness…Read more…
A ruling this week in the USA by the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has given a boost to unions, and the ‘alt.unions’ who are trying to build union organisation in the US fast food…Read more…
The government’s Trade Union Bill has taken a bit of a pounding lately. First there were the trade unions themselves, who are uniformly opposed to the bill. Then there was a joint letter from…Read more…
It’s the time in the decade when the BBC’s Charter, granted by Parliament, comes up for review. The BBC’s enemies in government and the commercial media combine to throw at it everything…Read more…
As soon as I stepped on the train I saw big bright dresses, suitcases full of make-up and a whole carriage full of singing drag queens, from this point on I knew Brighton Pride was going to be the…Read more…
The new Women and Equalities Select Committee – a cross-party group of Members of Parliament – decided that its first action would be to hold an inquiry into the position of transgender people in the UK. The initial consultation period has just closed and the TUC made a submission (which you can…Read more…