Friday 14 November from 7.30pm.
Meet and quiz the best sports writing talent around. Got a burning question? We’ve got the people in the know.
With a Q&A format, we predict an entertaining…Read more…
Diversifing energy ownership needs a more radical approach
Community energy provides an opportunity to diversify Scotland’s energy ownership from the dominance of big energy companies. The Scottish Government has published a Community Energy Statement that…Read more…
Two workers’ capital snippets
1. A major international trade union statement on pension funds and tax avoidance has been published today. It is available on the TUAC website here. It has also been covered by the FT.
2. There is a very useful briefing for investors on hum…Read more…
Staff at Waterloo Station to strike over victimisation and bullying
www.rmt.org.uk NEWS RELEASE November 10th 2014Immediate Staff at Waterloo Station to strike over victimisation and bullying Following a massive vote for action,…Read more…
Plots against Labour
WITH all the interest shown in various anniversaries this year, one slipped past almost unnoticed last month which might have topical relevance. It was 90 years since the Daily Mail published a…Read more…
Transparency & The Establishment
Colleagues,
Just a brief post as I am teaching at Ruskin this weekend as we have three cohorts of the BA international labour and trade union studies (ILTUS) in. What a fine bunch of trade unionists! Even though I am not feeling great, it is reviving to be here and to hear of their natural,…Read more…
New Scotland in UNISON online
Austerity economics don’t add up, vote yes to keep your union’s voice, 18 October rally report, devolution submission, campaign against NHS PFI, violence against staff doubles, retired member wins claim, Bhopal remembered, celebrate learning and much more in this issue. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/siu/index.htmlRead more…
Speech: CWU Disability Conference, Leeds
I am privileged to be able to address you today. The work of disability activists within the CWU is essential to the future of this union. From your activity, and through your eyes, the problems…Read more…
Imagine if every school in your local area was stamped with a commercial logo
Rick Muir is Associate Director for Public Service Reform at IPPR. The case for ‘for profit’ providers in education rests on weak empirical foundations. The international evidence on the performance…Read more…
Our Future Free from Racism
This has been a momentous year for Scotland. The referendum, the Commonwealth Games, the Ryder Cup – the eyes of the world have been on us like never before.
I never doubted that as a people we would…Read more…
BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS – INTERSERVE WATERLOO
BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS – INTERSERVE WATERLOO Referring to Decision No GWW 4th November 2014, your Southern Sub-Committee submits the following report:- “We note the…Read more…
Article 8: Right to respect for private and family life (The implications on unfair dismissal)
7 November 2014
By Michael Ford QC, Old Square Chambers
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POSTPONED: Lock v British Gas
6 November 2014
By Camilla Belich.
The Leicester Employment Tribunal is due to consider the CJEU decision on commission payment during holiday this February.
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What did the EU ever do for working people?
The UK’s often turbulent relationship with the European Union seems to be getting stormier by the day. With UKIP support rising to record levels, the Conservatives have been pushed into an…Read more…
2020 – A (not lot of) Library Space Odyssey –“Open the Library doors please HAL:” (Holographic Artificial Librarian)
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn Last Tuesday at a full Council Meeting it was voted by a majority of one to go ahead with the Libraries Strategy.
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Profits are progressive
Gabriel Heller Sahlgren is research director at the Centre for Market Reform of Education and affiliated researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm, Sweden. He’s also a…Read more…
Picturehouse Cinemas: Pay all your staff a living wage
Can you help BECTU put pressure on Picturehouses to pay a fairer wage to their dedicated staff from Exeter to Edinburgh? Sign the petition now!Read more…
Solidarity with the Kurds – or NATO-bashing?
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. At the November 1st demonstration in Trafalgar Square in support of besieged Kobane, it struck me that the speakers — and more broadly,…Read more…
NHS Scotland is under financial pressure and it’s going to get worse
NHS in Scotland is facing significant pressures at the same time as having to make major changes to services to meet future needs. That’s the key message from the latest Audit Scotland report on NHS…Read more…
A school is a vital community resource, let’s keep it that way.
Martin Johnson is former deputy general secretary of ATL and author of the TUC publication, Education Not for Sale. The real damage to England’s schools following the reforms of the last twenty-five…Read more…