Whoopi Goldberg:
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Whoopi Goldberg:
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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
Further to my previous…Read more…
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…
Heather Wakefield Read more…
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…
In the first 6 months of the financial year, from April 2014, government borrowing was £58 billion. In September alone it was £11.8 billion. Total government debt in September was £100 billion higher than a year earlier, at £1.45 trillion. By the standard of its own aims this shows the failure of…Read more…
In its haste to attack unions, the Conservative party has shot itself in the foot and proved the review was just a cynical pre-election stunt
For as long as David Cameron has been leader of the…Read more…
Our pay freeze is actually a 20% pay cut against inflation. That’s why the PCS union will join the mass strike on 10 July
Is it any wonder public sector workers are angry? They have seen executive…Read more…
Fourteen years ago this week I was at a small gathering in Farringdon Street to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the modern day Labour Party. It’s a treasured memory that has stayed with…Read more…
Unions21 is a trade union network that shares best practice and new ideas between its members. For the first time, its steering committee have decided that Unions21 should put forward a position on…Read more…
The Thompsons Solicitors Union Home blog Following an informal information gathering exercise last year, the government recently announced a consultation on zero hours contracts to investigate…Read more…
It appears that MP’s truly get a bad press and when they get some good news we cannot help but knock them for six. Take the 11% increase in pay announced by the independent parliamentary…Read more…
The regular Thompsons Solicitors blog British workers are feeling less secure than at any time in the past 20 years. Below-inflation pay cuts are creating a cost of living crisis whilst…Read more…