As a Labour member, I’m appalled to see a Labour council put these incredible public service workers in such an impossible position. And as your General Secretary, I’ll stand with home care workers…Read more…
Prentis tells Birmingham care strikers ‘we will win’
Birmingham council wants to cut the hours – and pay – of its enablement team that works to help vulnerable people stay in their homes
The article Prentis tells Birmingham care strikers ‘we will win’…Read more…
Bolton hospital workers’ pay ballot opens
Voting papers dispatched today in vote over action on pay parity
The article Bolton hospital workers’ pay ballot opens first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
‘Cop-out option’
Tory-controlled Westminster Council has spent more than £1m on ‘gagging’ orders, prompting criticism from many including Unite. According to information obtained by Left Foot Forward in a…Read more…
‘Joke’ insolvency plans
Planned government action on dodgy bosses who use insolvency to avoid paying wages and pensions are a “joke”, Unite has said. Bosses who dissolve their companies to get out of paying workers…Read more…
‘Daily trauma’
Ambulance crews are not getting enough mental health support Unite has warned, as new figures reveal that one in ten staff at one of the UK’s largest ambulance services have taken time off in the…Read more…
TUC Rally At Conservative Party Conference – 29 September 2018, Birmingham
Victoria Square – Birmingham 11am – 3pm. Ahead of the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, join thousands of working people as we march to call time on failed austerity and instead to campaign for a new deal for working people. R…Read more…
Conflicts of interest, alignment etc
Three sort of related thoughts that I have had recently, when thinking more about competing interests within the firm etc.
1. If there were really no tension between different interests (i.e. managers, workers, investors) then it should not matter who …Read more…
ANEURIN BEVAN Dealing with the Housing Shortage
Well said Nye in 1946. While nowadays we have not gone through anything like total war we are suffering from 8 years of Tory misrule on housing (in particular but also practically everything else. Have we ever had such a useless Government?)
Hat tip T…Read more…
Cut and paste hedge fund reporting, again
Back from holidays, so had a quick Google to see if I could find any of that pro forma stewardship reporting that I had been tracking. And, yes, there is more:
Altavista Capital:
Altavista Investment Management UK LLP manages or advises a number of f…Read more…
A bit more Chantal Mouffe
The excerpt below is from For A Left Populism. I found the book a bit underwhelming to be honest, but the idea of approaching politics as a radicalisation of democracy appeals to me. I’m particularly interested in how this would play out in corp gov / …Read more…
Driven to distraction
When Tan Rashid gets home after a shift the exhausted Middlesborough bus driver sits quietly in a dark room. Unite member Rashid said, “We have a high percentage of drivers who go off with…Read more…
‘On the right track’
The British press is the least trusted in Europe – even below non-EU countries such as North Macedonia and Serbia. This may not be a surprising statistic, given the British press’ massive…Read more…
My first Cawl
Off message. Ashamed to say that for the 1st time ever I cooked a traditional #Welsh #Cawl.
Salt Marsh Lamb, carrots, spuds, parsnips & of course leeks. Forgot the swede.
With wholemeal bread, welsh butter, caerphilly cheese…Read more…
Carillion ‘Ponzi scheme’
Unite called for a public inquiry into the collapse of Carillion and for it to cover the government’s approach to the awarding of contracts, following the Dispatches programme shown yesterday (August…Read more…
Cruel regime overhaul call
The taxpayer is estimated to be spending over a £100m a year on benefit appeals by sick and disabled people – even though more than two thirds of tribunals rule in favour of the claimant. The…Read more…
‘We’re not going anywhere’
TGI Fridays workers are set to continue in their fight for fair tips as they down tools over the bank holiday weekend. Workers at two TGI Fridays branches in Covent Garden in London and Milton…Read more…
‘I say join us’
TGI Fridays workers at Covent Garden, London and Milton Keynes will be striking for the fifth time this bank holiday weekend. Their colleagues at TGI Fridays in Stratford City, London will be joining…Read more…
‘Flagrant’ discrimination
In the 1950s and 60s, many people were unable to find housing through private landlords because they were black or Irish. While those days may be long gone, another form of housing discrimination is…Read more…
Review: We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Film, by Noah Isenberg
This is the story of Casablanca — where the story came from, how the film was made, and its “afterlife” right up until a Facebook post by Elizabeth Warren on a recent New…Read more…