6 November 2014
By Camilla Belich.
The Leicester Employment Tribunal is due to consider the CJEU decision on commission payment during holiday this February.
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6 November 2014
By Camilla Belich.
The Leicester Employment Tribunal is due to consider the CJEU decision on commission payment during holiday this February.
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The UK’s often turbulent relationship with the European Union seems to be getting stormier by the day. With UKIP support rising to record levels, the Conservatives have been pushed into an…Read more…
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn Last Tuesday at a full Council Meeting it was voted by a majority of one to go ahead with the Libraries Strategy.
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Gabriel Heller Sahlgren is research director at the Centre for Market Reform of Education and affiliated researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm, Sweden. He’s also a…Read more…
Can you help BECTU put pressure on Picturehouses to pay a fairer wage to their dedicated staff from Exeter to Edinburgh? Sign the petition now!Read more…
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. At the November 1st demonstration in Trafalgar Square in support of besieged Kobane, it struck me that the speakers — and more broadly,…Read more…
NHS in Scotland is facing significant pressures at the same time as having to make major changes to services to meet future needs. That’s the key message from the latest Audit Scotland report on NHS…Read more…
Martin Johnson is former deputy general secretary of ATL and author of the TUC publication, Education Not for Sale. The real damage to England’s schools following the reforms of the last twenty-five…Read more…
Whoopi Goldberg:
Supporters the New York Working Families Party
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BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS – INTERSERVE WATERLOO
Our Ref: BR1/14/2
4th November 2014
Dear Colleagues
BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS – INTERSERVE WATERLOO
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During Living Wage Week we should focus on ensuring that the 400,000 workers in Scotland on poverty pay are paid the living wage.
The idea behind a living wage is very simple. A worker should be…Read more…
Poverty pay has no place in 21st century Britain and we are working hard in UNISON to get employers to sign up to pay the living wageRead more…
To: All Branches, Regional Councils and Regional Organisers 3rd November 2014P11Circular No. NP222/14 Dear Colleague 96% Vote YES to…Read more…
To: All Branches, Regional Councils and Regional Organisers 3rd November 2014P11Circular No. NP222/14 Dear Colleague 96% Vote YES to retain the RMT Political Fund I am v…Read more…
I saw two speeches recently that contained points that I reckon are worth repeating. First, I was lucky enough to see James Galbraith speak about inequality at a recent conference. I won’t rehash his argument, but one thing that stuck with me…Read more…
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Colleagues,
I spent last week in the US as part of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Empire State College (ESC) New York and Ruskin College.
The labour studies department of ESC is housed in the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Centre and is on…Read more…
The Wiltshire FBU has written a detailed response to the ‘consultation’ on merger with Dorset Fire Service. It deserves wide circulation. Anybody interested in the impact of central government cuts should read it. You can dowload it here FBU WILTSHIRE RESPONSE DOC Read more…
EDWARD RUSHTON (1756-1814)
IT is just a few years since I heard about Edward Rushton, Liverpool’s blind poet, anti-slavery campaigner and radical revolutionary.
Born in John Street, Liverpool, in…Read more…
This is the speech I gave today in Trafalgar Square at the demonstration in support of Kobane — part of an international day of action. Comrades and friends, brothers and sisters, good…Read more…