–>My Review of the Celtic Connections concert featuring Luka Bloom and Bella Hardy was in Wednesday’s Morning Star. it can be found here.Another concert that the Star hasn’t had the space…Read more…
AGS ELECTION – VOTE ALAN POTTAGE NUMBER 1 in this election……
Rmt Waterloo Branch nominated and has supported Alan Pottage for the Assistant General Secretary position, he is the most experienced loyal and hard working person and is the best and only man for…Read more…
Saturday Sectarian: Green Lies & the Green Housing vacuum
I have just enjoyed reading two very different posts on the Green Party and their policies.
The first was from the never shy nor retiring Kitty Jones on
“You’d have to be Green to believe the Green Party: two more lies exposed”.
While the other post by Steve Hilditch “The grass isn’t any greener…Read more…
Why Making Up Lost Ground on Pay is so Important
Last week’s employment figures showed the annual increase in average weekly earnings (regular pay) rising to 1.8 per cent, higher than the most recent inflation figures (1.6 per cent for the Retail Price Index, 0.5 per cent using the CPI). It’s a bit early to celebrate, though. The reality is that…Read more…
GREECE: The End Of Austerity?
I now know how passionate teachers are about the subject of CPD
Richard Garner is education editor of The Independent If I didn’t realise it before, I now know how passionate teachers are about the subject of continuous professional development. Tuesday’s debate…Read more…
Recovery… well sort of.
We have recovered from the Financial crisis. Yes we have –
it’s official. Well sort of, we currently have employment levels back at 2008
levels – 73%.
Whoopee, let’s celebrate, let
joy be unconfined amongst the masses pop the champagne corks and…ehh hang on.
If we have recovered why are so many of us so much worse off?
Well the reason is that while jobs numbers haveRead more…
Pension funds in action
Blogging is light to non-existent currently, but here are three nuggets worth flagging up.
1. Pretty incredible win for investors worried about climate change – Shell has recommended that shareholders vote FOR their resolution at this year’s AGM…Read more…
e NEWS 30 January 2015
A qualified workforce?
Why a qualified workforce? Is this a question we should even be posing? Does it make sense to talk of an unqualified workforce? How is it that teaching in FE colleges or academies, independent…Read more…
GREECE:THE END OF AUSTERITY? – A MUST WATCH
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National Campaign Day with Lyn Brown and Harriet Harman – Sat 31 Jan
“Tomorrow is national campaign day. Lyn Brown MP and Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader of the Labour party, invite you to the opening of the new campaign centre for Bermondsey and Old Southwark – followed, of course, by a canvassing session for Labour’s ca…Read more…
Saving Our Safety Net Fact of the Week: 800,000 children live in families that are behind on their energy bills
(Warning: long post.) This week’s headline comes from Show Some Warmth, an excellent new report from the Children’s Society that looked at the problem of energy debt – families falling into debt because they cannot pay their energy bills. The report found that 3.8 million children live in…Read more…
“Rights at Work” UNISON Labour Link event at House of Commons
This is a fantastic picture from last weeks’ London UNISON Labour Link “Rights at Work” event for our members who live in Ilford North CLP. The event was organised by Lilian Greenwood MP (who use to be a UNISON national officer and is a great friend of…Read more…
TUC: HolocaustMemorialDay
#HolocaustMemorialDay 2015: Remember the holocaust 27 Jan 2015, By Frances O’Grady This Holocaust Memorial Day the spotlight is on the worrying growth of anti-semitism in Britain and elsewhere…Read more…
Why is BusinessEurope doing the banks’ dirty work?
BusinessEurope, the body which represents employers’ organisations around Europe (the CBI is its UK member) wrote last week to European Union finance ministers in a last ditch attempt to derail the European financial transactions tax (FTT, aka the Robin Hood Tax) that a group of Eurozone…Read more…
Civil service trade unionism under attack – public service trade unionists should respond
http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/pcs_comment/index.cfm/video-mark-serwotka-outlines-plan-for-pcs-future
The Tories (supported by their Lib Dem hangers on) are rehearsing – in the civil service – for the onslaught they intend to unleash upon all…Read more…
Our members will have their say
This week’s pay offer for NHS staff in England has brought two issues into sharp focus …Read more…
MP’s confirm poorest areas are worst hit by cuts
Councils in the most deprived areas of England have been hardest hit by cuts to their funding, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has said. Austerity cuts have not been applied equally since…Read more…
Tomlinson’s dishonest use of statistics
Credit where it’s due. Justin Tomlinson is consistent. He consistently attempts to mislead his electorate in relation to the employment situation in the town. Once again he is trying to con people by presenting the Job Seekers Allowance numbers as the unemployment level. Why does he continue…Read more…