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UNISON interim report on proposed Education & Skills & Catering Services outsourcing project
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Isle of Wight TUC urge local industry and SME’s to take up opportunity
Solent LEP ‘pit-stop’ offers support to Isle of Wight businesses By A County Press reporter Sunday, January 4, 2015 Steve Butler, of the Isle of Wight TUC, which wants businesses to take…Read more…
Why I like to pay taxes….
Love it. Hat tip the USA coffee movement. Maybe we should form something similar across the pond to counter the uber right wing Tories or their Kipper cousins. Read more…
The New Year: Fight for the Rights of All – Out with the Old and In with the New
A New Direction for the Economy Social Inequality and the Necessity to Restrict Monopoly Right As 2014 comes to a close, one of the greatest concerns facing people is the growing social inequality…Read more…
Why is Housing the dog that never has its political day?
It was pretty depressing to read “Inside Housing” last week and see that housing is not in the voters top 10 priorities for the general election.
For someone who works in social housing and whose case work as a Councillor is mainly about overcrowding …Read more…
Magna Carta and Social Security
This year (15 June) we’ll mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta. The commemorations will include a TV documentary, a Magna Carta cycle trail, a visit by 800 American lawyers and, I kid you not, a new roundabout on the A308. A lot of the people I usually agree with will be…Read more…
The compelling case against TTIP
#StopTTIP John Hilary, Executive Director of War on Want, sets out the case against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – the proposed trade agreement between the European Union…Read more…
A Symphony for the New World by Sam Silva
Huge expressive violins
in symphonies of meat and work
and struggle
on the farm
or in the factory
made for the record player
to spin in sin
against tobacco smoke
perfuming night
while…Read more…
A few New Years thoughts on corporate governance
When I was at the TUC, we once got Brendan Barber on Newsnight as part of a slot on executive pay. I think this was around the time of the GlaxoSmithkline pay defeat in 2003, and I can remember Brendan arguing that shareholder votes on remuneration sho…Read more…
Sign me up as a Labour supporter…fight the General Election (and pick the next London Mayor)
There is only 4 months and 5 days to go until the General Election. So this is going to be a busy, busy time for me and other Labour activists.
Part of my job as West Ham Labour agent and Chair of London UNISON Labour Link will be to encourage Labour …Read more…
The Hazards of Duke
DAVID DUKE STEVE SCALISEUNITED STATES Republican Party leaders can be pretty right-wing and even racialist these days, they can beat the drums for war abroad, while waging war on America’s own poor…Read more…
Wages fell £500 last year – 2015 needs a pay rise
Despite the recovery, 2014 has been another miserable year for living standards. The average wage is now worth £50 a week less than when the government came to power. And current policies offer little relief. The Office for Budgetary Responsibility forecast, released with the Autumn Statement,…Read more…
Happy New Year 2015 – Blwyddyn Newydd Dda
Picture of Bardsey, the Island of 20,000 Saints, Llyn Peninsular, New Years Day 2011 Read more…
A Tale of Two New Year Messages
A comparison of the New Year messages issued by the CBI and the TUC reveals a far more assertive and upbeat mood from the employers organisation. The CBI Director General John Cridland sets his stall…Read more…
Artists against Austerity
From time to time this blog has been known to go on (and on) about the importance of cultural work in the struggle for a socialist and just society, Occasionally it has been known to hanker for the…Read more…
My year according to Google+
This is what Google+ thinks of my 2014. Sad that Gerry and Stuart as well as others are no longer with us but there was many good times as well. Highlights of the year for me was being re-elected as a Councillor in West Ham, visiting Ireland and comple…Read more…
“Charity is a cold grey loveless thing…”
Well said Clem. Remember there is a difference between rich people doling out charity to please their conscience and working people showing solidarity with their widow’s mites. Read more…
Four week strike to hit sales of Barbour jackets, warns Unite
Barbour jackets at renowned retailers such as Harrods, Harvey Nichols and John Lewis could be in short supply over the coming weeks because of a four week strike warned Unite. The warning came as the…Read more…
TUC New Year message – 2015 must bring living standards boost as average wage fell £500 in 2014
“In her New Year message, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady reveals that the real value of the average full-time wage fell by £487 in 2014 (from new TUC analysis – full details below). This means that the average full-time employee wage has fallen in real terms by £2,509 since 2010 – about…Read more…