More than 110 drivers from First Hampshire and Dorset Ltd in Weymouth and Bridport are to strike for five days next week in an ongoing dispute on pay. This will be the sixth week of the…Read more…
What should Theresa May’s new Industrial Strategy look like?
Last week, the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, expressed her support for a modern industrial strategy. As she created her first Cabinet, Mrs May pushed this agenda further forward by recasting the former BIS as a new Department for Business, Energy an…Read more…
Rank hypocrisy
Staff at Dorset county council will be protesting on Thursday (July 21) over ‘them and us’ pay inequality at the council’s headquarters. Employees’ are angry at large pay rises planned for council…Read more…
Pouring petrol on the fire
Thousands of Unite First Bus members across the country are considering industrial action against the company’s attacks on pay and working conditions. First Bus is facing pending industrial…Read more…
As Altmann exits, where is Workie?
Pensions Minister Baroness Altmann is to leave government, we learned over the weekend. The reshuffle fortunes of her sidekick Workie, the much lampooned multi-coloured monster she launched to promote workplace pensions, have yet to be confirmed. Altma…Read more…
Courage and solidarity
Speaking at Unite’s policy conference today (July 14), shadow chancellor John McDonnell laid out the Labour party’s radical plan to transform society under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn…Read more…
Radical transformation
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell laid out the Labour party’s single-minded “ambition to radically transform society” in a speech at Unite’s policy conference today (July 14), in which he also took…Read more…
Labour – fight Tories call
Unite members expressed frustration in a vote at conference today (July 14) in which they debated the policy of reselection of Labour MPs. Examining the conduct of some within the party and the…Read more…
Support Corbyn call
Uniting behind Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, Unite delegates voted in favour of a motion today (July 14) to call on Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) to urge their MPs to support the party’s…Read more…
United for steel – 2
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell discussing the latest steel situation with Unite steel workers. Pic by Mark Thomas
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Accountable services call
Fighting against privatisation of public services was an important discussion for delegates (July 12) who believed that the process was “often not transparent nor meaningful. The consultation fails…Read more…
Note to Philip Hammond: In ALL 32 OECD countries where spending was cut, economic growth was significantly damaged
Since 2010, under the direction of international organisations and most economists, governments across the world have cut spending in order to restore public finances to health. OECD figures show this strategy has failed. Cuts have greatly damaged economic growth – to a far greater extent than…Read more…
At the heart of Unite
“Solidarity is at the heart of Unite,” said shadow chancellor John McDonnell as he made his address to Unite policy conference, today (July 14). He received no less than three standing…Read more…
Seat at Brexit table call
Unite policy conference delegates backed a statement on Europe from the union’s executive council yesterday (July 14), which demanded trade union input into the ‘Brexit’ negotiations. Warning…Read more…
G20 China: The diagnosis is in, but not the prescription
Its hot and smoggy here in Beijing Beijing, where G20 Labour and Employment Ministers have been meeting this week, but that’s not the main source of my frustration. Instead, I’m having a hard time getting my head around what Guy Ryder, head of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), described…Read more…
Change for the better
In his first speech after it was confirmed on Tuesday (July 12) that he would be on the ballot paper in the upcoming Labour leadership contest, Jeremy Corbyn addressed delegates at Unite’s policy…Read more…
NHS funding ‘reset’ – Austerity comes first
In a stark comments given in an interview to the Health Service Journal this week, Jim Mackey, head of NHS Improvement made clear the new policy priority for the NHS – austerity comes first. Ahead of a set of announcements for further belt tightening expected soon – what’s been termed the NHS…Read more…
Bus drivers under attack
Unite drivers suspended bus services in a district of West Belfast last weekend, after a double-decker was petrol bombed. Luckily no one was hurt during the attack, which took place in the…Read more…
European attitudes to diversity & migration: room for improvement
A new analysis of European views on migration demonstrates that diversity is not as unpopular as the referendum result and right-wing populism in France, Germany and Italy might suggest. But it also reveals that British views are in some ways more like…Read more…
What makes us strong
View Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s standing ovation speech in his address to Unite policy conference delegates, July 13.
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