THERE’s more to politics than party leaders appearing on television and supporters canvassing for your vote. Amid all the messages I’m seeing on Facebook concerned with the May 7 general…Read more…
Airport security workers walk out over equal treatment
Prospect members working in airport group HIAL’s security company AMSL have begun a 48 hour strike over a six-year-long battle for equal treatment. Prospect national secretary Alan Denney said: “We put in our claim in October but have yet to receive an offer from the employer in response to this. Not only that, we’ve seen […]Read more…
Campaign to Save Trade Union Studies Unit SOT College From Closing
This branch is supporting the campaign to keep the Trade Union Studies Unit at Stoke-On-Trent College open. A poster is available for display – defend tuc studies unit For further info on the closures please email rfoulkes@live.co.uk A link to … Continue reading →Read more…
NUT members back ballot for industrial action
NUT members are to ballot for industrial action should the next government fail to increase funding for schools in England and Wales. Delegates at the union’s annual conference agree to hold the ballot and to hold discussions with other teaching unions over post-election spending cuts proposed by both Tory and Labour parties. NUT general secretary […]Read more…
Teaching unions hold merger talks
NUT believes single teachers’ union is in the best interests of the professionRead more…
Why are older teachers losing their jobs?
NASUWT and NUT are concerned at discrimination against senior members of staffRead more…
Why this election matters – public services
‘They are all the same!’ is perhaps the most common response of the politically uncommitted at election time. I’ve been involved in elections since I was twelve years of age and if I’m honest there…Read more…
UNISON NEC Elections 2015
Tomorrow (April 7) ballot papers should be starting to drop though the home letter boxes of 1.3 million UNISON members up and down the country.
Every 2 years all members of the UNISON National Executive Committee (NEC) are up for re-election. The UNIS…Read more…
The Deficit Myth:
Ramesh Patel. Finally! Exposed! The Deficit Myth! So, David Cameron When Are You Going to Apologise? Posted: 24/10/2012 14:52 BST Updated: 03/04/2015 11:59 BST “A lie gets halfway around the…Read more…
Teachers to Ballot for Strike Action:
Teachers to ballot over school funding walk-out Teachers have backed calls for a ballot on strike action over shortfalls to school funding in England and Wales. The National Union of Teachers claims…Read more…
Political Parties Gather in Mexico:
Ninth International Seminar “Parties and a New Society” Political Parties Gather in Mexico to Deliberate on Unfolding Developments From March 12 to 14, the Ninth International Seminar…Read more…
Quebec: Brutal Police Assault on Protesters
Denounce Brutal Police Assault on Protesters! Montreal Police and Couillard Government Must Be Held to Account! – Marxist-Leninist Party of Quebec – The Marxist-Leninist Party of Quebec…Read more…
Does pensions “freedom” offer the right choices?
Today (almost*) anyone over 55 can get their hands on their pension and take it as cash. It is all about “freedom” and “choice”, we are told. Those of us who are sceptical of the policy are therefore immediately labelled as opponents of freedom. We are the snooty…Read more…
Dirty Tricks department turned on Sturgeon: Was Memo Leaked or Faked?
SCOTTISH National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon remained centre stage this weekend, offering Labour’s Ed Miliband a deal to keep Tory David Cameron out of Downing Street. Writing in the…Read more…
Happy 50th Birthday London Boroughs – time to change?
This is an interesting video commissioned by modern day London Councils to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the current London Borough arrangements. Before 1965 Newham had separate West Ham and East Ham Councils.
There has been massive changes in Lon…Read more…
Nearly There! : If you can help: Just a bit more of a push: Crowdfunding-Projekts unserer Jugendgruppe ‘Ubi Youth – Jugendtheater Leipzig’.
Ubiquity Theatre Company (Leipzig) Crowdfunding-Projekts unserer Jugendgruppe ‘Ubi Youth – Jugendtheater Leipzig‘. Today we were in the LVZ over our youth group ‘Ubi youth…Read more…
What Is Just Is Just:
Save Lewisham Hospital and other campaigns outside the Tribunal On Friday, March 20, the Tribunal of Charlotte Monro came to an end and the presiding judge gave his final comments. In these comments,…Read more…
In UNISON there is another election coming…
http://www.socialismtoday.org/91/unison.html
As a UNISON member resident in a marginal constituency I today received a letter from our General Secretary encouraging me to vote in the General Election and warning me of the plans the Tories have for our …Read more…
100 reasons to check out Barnet.
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn In Barnet over the past 6 years there has been some major changes to Council services. Here are 100 links to a variety of video clips, short films, songs…Read more…
Part 2 – A Brief History of Public Housing
The Right to Housing Is an Election Issue Part 2 – A Brief History of Public Housing Public housing in Britain has a long history stretching back to the 19th Century. The steep rise in the population…Read more…