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No one person, organisation or body is more critical to the success of HS2 than the workforce that will build it. And that’s why everyone involved in HS2 has a responsibility to that workforce and must be committed to upholding the highest standards in every aspect of employment.
The post HS2-TUC…Read more…
After three days of evasion David Cameron has been forced to admit that he benefited from a tax-free offshore trust his father set up. The revelation, coming after days of partial responses to…Read more…
It is difficult for the public to appreciate how fundamental a specific interpretation of ‘productivity’ is to supporting the government’s fiscal policy. It is even more difficult to comprehend that this interpretation is primarily a policy-based or ideological judgement, based on the thinnest…Read more…
Business secretary Savid Javid returned from Mumbai today (April 7) after talks with Tata Steel chairman Cyrus Mistry in a bid to gain assurances that the Indian steel conglomerate will sell off its…Read more…
Earlier this year, Unite commissioned a damning study about the dangers that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), an EU-US trade currently being negotiated, would pose for the…Read more…
An NHS Trust has paid £9,000 in damages to the family of an 89-year-old woman who died after being given inadequate hospital care after an investigation by Unite Legal Services. The woman from…Read more…
With official concern that nationalisation of TATA Steel could potentially expose the exchequer to considerable liabilities, a new form of public sector intervention may be required if a buyer for…Read more…
Tata Steel, the second largest steel producer in Europe, employs thousands of British workers. Its plan to sell its UK assets has kicked the UK’s steel industry crisis up a gear, with up to 40,000…Read more…
There could be years of uncertainty for workers and employers if the UK votes to leave the European Union. That’s according to leading legal expert, Michael Ford QC, who was commissioned by…Read more…
Co-op drivers have voted by a large margin to accept proposals to settle the dispute over the outsourcing of jobs. Unite recommended that more than 700 of its members accept the offer hammered…Read more…
The TUC has been fighting attempts to scrap the workers’ rights we have won from the European Union for nearly a year. First we had to fight off the Prime Minister’s plan to use his renegotiation strategy to reduce worker protections; secure a further UK opt out from them; or…Read more…
We are gradually winning the argument that workers’ rights (known in the academic literature as Employment Protection Legislation, or EPL) are not only good for the workers concerned, but also beneficial – or at the very least not harmful – to the economy as a whole. See this OECD…Read more…
The TUC has published today a legal opinion from prominent legal expert Michael Ford QC – Employment Silk of 2015 – which warns of years of chaos as a post-Brexit government re-regulates British employment law. The advice he has given the TUC lists the workplace rights which are most…Read more…
Business secretary Savid Javid has met with unions, ministers as well as potential buyers of Tata Steel’s UK operations in a bid to save an industry that may be weeks away from collapse if urgent…Read more…
The latest monthly ONS economic review includes a focus on housing tenure. There are a number of takeaways from this latest release but the prospects for those in rented accommodation appear gloomy, and Londoners, especially younger Londoners are beari…Read more…
Polls have shown that young people are most likely to back the UK staying in the European Union – however they are also the least likely to turn out to vote. It is also young people who would…Read more…
The HSE have recently launched a new strategy called “Helping Great Britain work well”. It has six themes – Acting together; tackling ill health; managing risk well; supporting small employers;…Read more…
The future of Somerset cider is still under threat, despite welcome news yesterday that Brothers Drinks will be taking over a bottling line at the Shepton Mallet cider mill. The high-speed…Read more…
Representatives for thousands of car workers at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) today (April 5) wrote to Cyrus Mistry, the chairman of the carmaker’s parent company, Tata Group demanding the conglomerate…Read more…
Labour has proposed a £35bn plan to save Port Talbot steel works and the rest of the British steel industry by bringing forward work on HS2 and 500 other rail, airport and road projects. More…Read more…