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Len McCluskey is right to emphasise the breadth and depth of support for Jeremy Corbyn across our …Read more…
More Austerity Is Still the Theme of Osborne’s Autumn Statement
March and rally in Newcastle on November 24 on the eve of the Autumn Statement. The march and rally was called to fight for the alternative under the title “It’s Time for a People’s…Read more…
Amazon is a corporate tax thief who steals from hospitals, schools, the disabled and the elderly
I have “bought” my first Crimbo present. Just donated £3 to”amazonanonymous”.
“Amazon like to hide behind their shiny website, and channel all the cash they make from us into offshore tax havens. Because you can’t find Amazon on the high street, its easy for them to get away without…Read more…
Thousands Protest against Bombing Syria:
Don’t Bomb Syria! Many Thousands Protest against Proposed Military Intervention Mass protests took place yesterday, Saturday, November 28, in London and many other cities across the country in a…Read more…
Against Bombing Syria:
No to Military Intervention in Syria! In the wake of recent events in Paris and elsewhere and following a UN Security Council resolution, Prime Minster David Cameron has presented to Parliament a new…Read more…
Care on the Isle of Wight
There are few Council Care homes to look after elderly people these days and on the Isle of Wight most of it is now in the private Sector, it is seen now as a multi-million pound industry. According…Read more…
Don’t Bomb Syria. Thousands protest against proposed UK military action
Mass protests have taken place in London and many other cities across the country urging the government not to conduct airstrikes in Syria. ‘Don’t Bomb Syria’ signs were plentiful, as thousands of…Read more…
This is a full-scale attack on the NHS, the junior doctor contract is just the start
Let’s be crystal clear (something the Secretary of State for Health has been consistent in failing to do), the junior doctors’ contract dispute is about much more than the terms and conditions for…Read more…
Guatemala: where a union leader’s life costs just $195
I spoke today at #LatinAmerica15, the annual conference devoted to solidarity with our colleagues in South and Central America and the Caribbean. I was talking about Guatemala, in the company of Noé…Read more…
West Ham Labour at Palace of Westminister
Picture collage from last Thursday’s meeting of the West Ham Labour Party General Committee, which courtesy of our MP, Lyn Brown, took place at the Jubilee Room in the Palace of Westminster. Beforehand we went on a guided tour of Parliament, led by our…Read more…
Broad alliance must raise the alarm on new Immigration Bill
The Immigration Bill is due to go through the Report stage and Third Reading in the House of Commons this Tuesday on 1st December. The Bill has emerged from the Public Bill Committee – to which the…Read more…
The UNISON General Secretary Election and the Single Transferable Vote…
I realise that I am in a tiny minority in UNISON, on the left on UNISON and generally in believing that we should use the Single Transferable Vote (STV) to elect our General Secretary.Happily I don’t mind being the one person who is right when all the rest of you are wrong. (I can even be generous…Read more…
Credit to Dave Prentis
This blog always give credit where it’s due.It’s a good thing that UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, has today spoken out against a “snap decision” to bomb Syria. That is right of course.If the answer is ever a UK military intervention you must know that you have asked the wrong question.UK…Read more…
Rally to save our steel
On Saturday November 21 hundreds of steelworkers and their families from across the UK, joined trade union leaders and politicians in a rally to Save our Steel in Sheffield. Coming amid a…Read more…
Energy strike suspended
A week-long strike by EDF Energy workers carrying out Smart meter installations, due to start on Monday (November 30), has been suspended for talks to take place with the conciliation service, Acas….Read more…
War on the poorest
Media rumours about the death of austerity are premature says the Institute of Fiscal Studies as it and the Resolution Foundation highlight Osborne’s new attack on the poorest. George…Read more…
MEPs vote in favour of strategic framework on health and safety at work
The health and well-being of employees is a fundamental right for all European citizens. While there has been considerable progress in terms of protection of workers in difficult and hazardous roles, occupational safety risks are still in existence. A …Read more…
UNISON condemns cuts to pay for teaching assistants
Threatened cuts to pay for teaching assistants in the North East have been condemned by UNISON. Staff in Durham schools could lose up to £5,000 a year under council proposals to introduce term-time…Read more…
There must be no snap decision over bombing Syria, says UNISON
UNISON has today (Friday) urged MPs not to make any snap decisions involving the UK in action over Syria.
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Whatever happens, this cannot be the end for carbon capture in the UK
This week saw the UK’s darkest day so far for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). At the CCSA, we and our members in the industry are still in shock. The same words keep repeating themselves; devastated, sad, bewildered. The question; Why? And why now? Amazingly, two days on the silence from…Read more…