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Oh dearie me “senior Labour figures” are worried that “modernisers” may be squeezed out of the premature election for Labour’s next Leader (in which we can enjoy hasty and unconvincing explanations for electoral failure).
The rea…Read more…
It started on May 9 in London, less than 48 hours after the election. Hundreds marched in an impromptu protest outside Downing Street, voicing their frustration with a government they did not vote…Read more…
Colleagues,
Just a short piece to report on a truly amazing day on Saturday accompanying the students of the MA ILTUS at Ruskin who have worked tremendously hard to gain a day off to attend the annual Levellers’ Day event in nearby Burford.
I had com…Read more…
FIFA President Sepp Blatter spent a weekend earlier this year with the Emir of Qatar at the Al Bahr palace in Doha. It wasn’t his first visit to the Emir’s Palace.Read more…
Is it a travesty of an important Victorian industrial dispute, to portray it as a musical? Particularly a musical rooted in the music hall tradition? Playwright Fatima Uygun doesn’t think so. She is…Read more…
Only a week after the Tories have begun their latest five-year reign of power, new, record-breaking figures released last Thursday (May 14) from the first few months of 2015 have shown the massive…Read more…
FIFA’s sponsors have ethical policies in their own supply chains but are silent over Qatar World Cup rights abuses that they are funding.Read more…
Last week was mental health awareness week and it is absolutely right that we need to take the time to think deeply about mental health and what we can do to better support people who are struggling,…Read more…
And another thing… Our weekly blog by ATL general secretary Mary Bousted. And so it begins – Nicky Morgan’s bonkers announcement that the leaders of ‘failing or coasting’ schools will have…Read more…
About six months ago I blogged about a PRI report on policy, and the limited mentions of labour issues compared to governance and environmental issues. My belief was and is that the RI community pays significantly less attention to labour issues than o…Read more…
Unite branches in Scotland call for disaffiliationRead more…
There was stunned silence followed by audible gasps in the High Court when a barrister read out documentary evidence indicating that major firms had deliberately set out to destroy evidence of their…Read more…
The UK is now the most unequal country in Europe, in terms of wages and income distribution, according to a new report by the Dublin Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, which is the EU’s official think tank on life at work*. Not only that, but the rise in…Read more…
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Collage is from the Regional AGM on Saturday for delegates from branches with Community Service Group members (Housing Associations and the Voluntary sector).
The meeting started on a somber note, as we stood up to pay our respects to Colin Joseph, wh…Read more…
Union says it will ballot its members for action if unsocial hours payments are cutRead more…
Australia is known as a settler nation (although the Australian unions are careful to acknowledge their debt to the people who cared for the land before Europeans arrived.) But more recently, what started as a way to plug short-term recruitment and ski…Read more…
BECTU members at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre take action over payRead more…
The highest profile of the particular attacks on trade unions and our members in this year’s Conservative manifesto are the new, further restrictions upon the circumstances in which trade unions are protected from civil liability for losses caused by industrial action.Since we are likely to have to…Read more…
On General election day May 7, London UNISON organiser, Karen Westwood, was representing Labour outside a polling station in Ilford North, when an elderly man bought photocopies of an election leaflet, featuring his Grandfather and gave her a copy. Kar…Read more…