Last week the RSA published a new report looking at the living standards of the self-employed. Why did we undertake this study? Simple: Because the self-employed community is booming but government, business and wider society have yet to catch up. In recent years, we’ve seen plenty of initiatives…Read more…
Still waiting
When chancellor George Osborne gave his speech to outline the government’s budget earlier this month, he hailed the UK’s supposedly growing economy, calling it the “Comeback Country”. He claimed living standards were rising and that the coalition government had created a labour market that “made work pay”. That Osborne’s speech was far from […]
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Publicly-owned railways would be 10% cheaper, says new research
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“Save Barnet Libraries goes all Bollywood”
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Save Barnet Libraries campaign gets a Bollywood makeover
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Queen (salary £38m) faces industrial action from staff (salary £14k)
PCS members open industrial action ballot at Buckingham PalaceRead more…
BBC managers walk out on strike over leave
BECTU members angry at imposed changes to schedulesRead more…
WIN! Aircraft engineer wins BA unfair dismissal case
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Milk strike off after “amicable conclusion”
Strike action by 100 milk delivery drivers, who recently transferred from Leeds-based Arla Foods to haulage company Moran Logistics, has been averted. The strike action due to commence at midnight has been called off. The members deliver milk to Tesco, Aldi, Morrison and ASDA supermarkets from Nottingham to the North East on the east of the […]Read more…
NUJ calls rally to defend local news as Trinity Mirror closes two more offices
Union says it will not sit back and allow company to slowly bleed newspapers to deathRead more…
What’s the choice in this election?
Campaign success: Lift media gag on civil servants
Thanks very much to everyone who took the time to sign the FDA’s petition to lift restrictions on civil servants’ contact with the media. We really appreciate your support in helping to…Read more…
Poverty is the real difference between school attainment levels
The Scottish Government’s parentzone website has published data on the performance of school leavers. The Daily Record highlighted how these figures show a shocking class divide between the…Read more…
Newham Local Government Branch AGM 2015 – The threat to your pensions- “if it sounds too good to be true then…”
On Friday I was invited to speak at the annual general meeting of the Newham UNISON branch at the Town Hall in East Ham.
This was in my trade union capacity as the Chair of the London UNISON pension network. This is my wr…Read more…
SIPTU members to consider industrial action after break down of bus talks
SIPTU members in Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus will meet tomorrow (Tuesday, 31st March) to consider balloting for industrial action following the break down of talks, facilitated by the Labour Relations Commission (LRC), on plans to privatise 10% of public bus services. SIPTU Utilities and Construction Division Organiser, Owen Reidy, said: “The talks, between representatives […]Read more…
Dutch students fight for University free from commercialisation & colonialism
There is a growing student movement challenging the commercialisation of the third level sector. Students have been staging sit ins and occupations in Amsterdam, London, Ireland and art students in Algiers forced the college director to resign after weeks of striking. We have a report here from one of the students involved in the occupation in Amsterdam.Read more…
Workers Rights in a Global Economy
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Ruskin College is an associate member of the Global Labour University (GLU) which is a network of universities, trade unions and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) delivering an MA programme similar to that run at Ruskin: http://w…Read more…
Health & Fracking: impacts and opportunity costs
An independent report from health professionals Medact, Health and fracking: the impacts and opportunity costs, concludes that fracking generates numerous public health risks. A moratorium should apply until a full public impact assessment is “conducted by a body that is entirely independent of the…Read more…
USi Exclusive: young Chinese labour activist: I want to set up my own NGO
This week, USi talked to a Shenzhen-based labour activist, who has been involved in major labour conflicts in the past few years. Recently he quit his job from a prominent labour NGO. He shared with USi his observations over the challenges of China’s labour movement, and his plan of setting up his own labour NGO.Read more…
UNISON Glasgow homeless service workers to take all out strike action
Monday 30 March 2015Seventy workers in Glasgow Council’s Homeless Service will walk out on Tuesday 31 March in a dispute over their pay grade.
The workers are all members of the trade union UNISON and will take all out, indefinite strike action in a dispute over the application of the council’s job evaluation scheme to the role of Homelessness Caseworkers. Three out of every fourRead more…