On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
Conservative tax plans help the wealthiest most – but there is a fairer way
At the Conservative party conference last year David Cameron announced that a future Conservative government would seek to introduce two separate income tax cuts: an above inflation increase in the personal allowance and a rise in the higher rate thres…Read more…
WHY POLITICIANS NEED TO TALK ABOUT GOOD WORK
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
Fixing the broken link
Some 20 years ago Lara Norris left her home with her two young children for a women’s refuge. Now, after putting herself through university, raising her children as a lone parent and working for…Read more…
Poring over the polls
Close to three weeks after the general election campaign kicked off proper, psephologists are still poring over the polls to get an idea of what parliament could look like after the election. …Read more…
Today’s labour market statistics: working people are still paying the price for austerity
Many have argued that employment gains somehow compensate for earnings losses, but this is false. My post on today’s labour market statistics is up at Left Foot Forward.
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A&E crisis
In a feature on the crisis in A&E in Worcestershire Royal Hospital aired on BBC Radio 4′s Today programme today(April 17), an anonymous ‘senior clinical’ member of staff reported on…Read more…
SOLIDARITY TO DEFEAT GOVERNMENT UNION-BUSTING
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
People really matter
When you ask Russell Brown what his memories are of taking the seat of Dumfries for Labour in 1997 he thinks not of himself but of others. National minimum wage “I remember first…Read more…
Union representation plea ignored
Unite construction members employed at Sellafield Limited in West Cumbria have overwhelmingly backed industrial action in a dispute over the company’s refusal to allow a full time union shop steward…Read more…
Black workers facing the scourge of casualisation
The coalition government’s rhetoric on the need to reduce the financial deficit hid an agenda. This agenda aimed to reshape the economy through privatisation of public services and to destroy union organisation and hard won conditions. It aimed to enable private interests to exploit labour for even…Read more…
NUJ STRESS CAMPAIGN
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
Saving Our Safety Net Fact of the Week: People in poverty deserve our respect
Today an independent group of nine women published Our Lives: challenging attitudes to poverty in 2015 – I’m one of them. Our report takes seriously the experiences of people dealing with poverty; we started with the stories told to us by people in poverty and built from that to wider…Read more…
Knocking on doors is victory key
Clive Lewis, Labour’s candidate in Norwich South, is calling on fellow Unite members to come and help him overturn a Lib Dem majority of just 310. “Knocking on doors is the key to…Read more…
Fox on the run
Biscuit production at Fox’s Biscuits in Batley, west Yorkshire is set to be hit next week by engineering workers striking over a ‘paltry’ pay offer. The 42 engineers, members of Unite, will be…Read more…
Ferry service under threat
Proposals that could see the closure of the Woolwich ferry, which has been free for more than a century, has been condemned by Unite. Unite said that the threat to the ferry, whose history…Read more…
What the Party Manifestos say on health and safety.
We now have the manifestos of all the main parties, it is interesting to see what they say (or don’t say) about occupational health and safety issues.Read more…
WORK NOT PLAY CAMPAIGN
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
#respect4managers – Debunking the myths about NHS managers
In the leadership debate two weeks ago, David Cameron described NHS managers as ‘bureaucrats with clipboards’. He boasted that he’d got rid of 20,000 such managers in England and that somehow this had created more jobs for doctors and nurses. Well yes, they got rid of the managers, in the most…Read more…
When the homeless are criminalised
Hundreds of people took to the streets of London yesterday, bringing traffic to a standstill as they marched on Parliament to raise awareness of the treatment of homeless people in the UK, Ireland…Read more…