As the summer kicks off, Pride events will be hosted throughout the nation, with Unite playing a decisive part as it continues in its critical work in supporting the LGBT community – both in and out…Read more…
You shall go to the ball!
Although school balls and discos have long been part of the UK’s cultural landscape, since the noughties, the much more extravagant US-style prom has captured the nation’s imagination. “More…Read more…
Challenging the Establishment
May’s general election result was a shock, not just to those in our movement but to pollsters, political commentators and even to the Tory beneficiaries now sitting smugly in their grand offices of…Read more…
Pensions: one of the last legal hurdles for same-sex couples
Peter Armstrong-Luckhurst met his husband Kristofer in 1990. They entered a civil partnership in 2009 and converted to marriage on 19 December 2014. He worked as a doctor and contributed to the NHS pension scheme from 1978 until 1994. He also bought another four years worth of ‘pension…Read more…
Solidarity forever (just not today) – SNP sails into choppy waters after ferry strike statement
RMT calls on SNP members to reject party’s “defeatist” line over austerity actionRead more…
TUC urges ministers to remove pension hurdle for same-sex couples
O’Grady says pensions law is discriminating against same-sex couples and those in civil partnerships, purely on the basis of their sexual orientationRead more…
It’s still about pay
The news that the Association of Colleges (AoC) (the national employers’ organisation for the Further Education sector) has made a 0% pay offer doesn’t simply challenge our use of the English language.
(In what sense is an offer of nothing “an offer”?)…Read more…
All roads lead to Manchester on 4 October
Building on last Saturday’s larger than expected anti austerity protests in Glasgow, London and other cities, the TUC is calling a national demonstration in Manchester on Sunday 4 October to coincide…Read more…
Afren’s remuneration: a long-term problem
A few years back, when I was blogging more regularly, Afren was one of the companies I always used to keep an eye on. This was because it clearly had some governance challenges, not least in respect of directors’ pay.
As far as I am aware it remains t…Read more…
Voting Systems: Newham Compass debate 1 July 2015
A topical subject again after May 7. I suspect that those of us who support a change in “first past the post” missed the boat during the AV referendum and we are now stuck with the current system for at least the next 5 years.
Yet it is important that…Read more…
“We will protect workers” – meet UNISON’s new president
North Yorkshire Branch secretary Wendy Nichols elected to union’s top lay positionRead more…
Nine out of ten FE staff are stressed at work, says survey
UCU says shows staff suffering an “unacceptable” level of psychological distress and exhaustionRead more…
Why we are taking strike action on 8 July
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The maintenance due today is delayed by approximately ??? years – RMT slams Govt over shelved rail plans
Union says Britain’s railways will be jammed in the slow lane all the time they are nothing more than a money making racket for the private sectorRead more…
Shock Goodyear factory shutdown
Unite warned that the closure of the Goodyear factory in Wolverhampton, with the loss of up to 400 jobs, would devastate the local economy and was being taken because British workers are easier and…Read more…
Green Investment Bank sell-off
The government’s announcement to sell off a large chunk of the Green Investment Bank (GIB) to the private sector is ‘a slap in the face’ for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) seeking much…Read more…
Into the Tory abyss
It took the Tory-led coalition which took office in 2010 only three years to push another 500,000 children into absolute poverty, according to new figures released today. And it took them only four…Read more…
BREAKING: TUC to organise national demo at Tory conference
Unions to demonstrate against government’s austerity agenda and attacks on trade unionsRead more…
BREAKING: Royal College of Midwives joins TUC
Frances O’Grady welcomes the first Royal College to join the TUCRead more…
Frank Field steps in where ministers fear to go on pension changes
It is welcome that this morning the Financial Times is reporting (behind a paywall) that the Work and Pensions Committee, under its new chairman Frank Field, is to scrutinise so-called pensions freedom reform. The policy, which means savers in defined contribution pensions no longer have to buy an…Read more…