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…
Picturehouse Cinemas: Pay all your staff a living wage
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…
Solidarity with the Kurds – or NATO-bashing?
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 Scotland is under financial pressure and it’s going to get worse
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…
A school is a vital community resource, let’s keep it that way.
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: Speaking up for Working Families
Whoopi Goldberg:
Supporters the New York Working Families Party
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BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS INTERSERVE -WATERLOO
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…
Let’s be bolder on tackling poverty pay during Living Wage Week
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
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…
Political Fund
To: All Branches, Regional Councils and Regional Organisers 3rd November 2014P11Circular No. NP222/14 Dear Colleague 96% Vote YES to…Read more…
Political Fund (Ballot Result)
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…
Labour pains
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…
No Living Wage for homecare workers?
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Challenges & Opportunities for Organised Labour in the USA
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…
Wiltshire FBU resonse to the ‘consultation’ on merger
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…
A Hero No Longer Forgotten
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…
They shall not pass!
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…
Government ‘economic fairytale’ unravels
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…
How Tory desperation to smear Labour sank the Carr review on unions | Gregor Gall
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…
Civil servants to join public sector strike for higher wages
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…