Sign the FDA petition on new rules that civil servants need ministerial clearance to talk to journalists.Read more…
More men called John run big companies than all women
Not that there is anything wrong with being called John but this blatant sexism and inequality is a nonsense. It is also simply bad for business if you exclude half the world from the the potential pool of talent to recruit from. The picture above is f…Read more…
Help protest media gag on civil servants
Please help FDA members tell Francis Maude that government need to think again.Read more…
The decline and fall of our annual Service Group Conference?
I note with regret that there are fewer motions on the Preliminary Agenda for our two day Local Government Service Group Conference in June than have been submitted to be discussed in four hours of Conference time next Tuesday.
The 42 motions on the agenda (a number which at least suggests that…Read more…
‘Stand up for Free Expression’ conference – Paris, 31st March 2015
‘Stand Up for Free Expression!’, a conference organised by the IFJ (International Federation of Journalists) and the SNJ (French Syndicat National des Journalistes), takes place in Paris…Read more…
Sajid Javid on Question Time: yet more labour market spin
Last night’s BBC Question Time (20 minutes into the iPlayer recording) featured Sajid Javid MP, a member of Cameron’s cabinet, defiantly claim that 80% of the jobs created in the past 5 years have been both full time and high-skilled in response to an audience member who was rightly concerned about…Read more…
Sanctions must go
As part of a national day of action (March 19) opposing benefit sanctions, which are now being used on an industrial scale, Unite held a demonstration outside the Department for Work and Pensions in London demanding these sanctions end.
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Stand Up to Racism and Fascism: Why We Need to March on Saturday 21st March
To mark UN Anti-Racism day tomorrow, Saturday 21stMarch, a call went out from Keefra- the Greek anti-nazi movement, which had success in tackling Golden Dawn- to hold anti-racist demonstrations….Read more…
Gary Lewis and Tommy Sands lead Glasgow’s MayDay festivities.
–> MayDay festivals have been celebrated since pre-Christian times. Earliest celebrations marked the beginning of summer and linked to many pagan festivals including the Gaelic…Read more…
Transport workers’ international investigates labour rights abuses on Thai fishing vessels
An ITF delegation has boarded industrial fishing vessels landing their catch in Songkhla port, Southern Thailand this week, as part of an investigation into labour rights abuses.Read more…
We will fight for workers
Unite’s rule book sounds just the sort of dusty tome to give employment lawyers headaches. Last week our governing body, Unite’s executive, unanimously agreed to make it shorter. It recommended the deletion from our rules of six little words that have governed our union’s actions: “so far as may be lawful”. So far, so […]
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Some good news on mental health (at last)?
Trade unions are finding ways to prevent mental health problems or, if it’s already happened to get employers to enable them to continue in work.
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Saving Our Safety Net Fact of the Week: even small victories should be celebrated
Last year we began our Saving Our Safety Net campaign by focusing on the “Five Week Wait” for benefits. One of the policies that will force thousands of new claimants to spend weeks with no income is the introduction of seven “waiting days”, which were due to be brought in next month for Universal…Read more…
Offshoring via the backdoor
Rolls-Royce, the iconic luxury car manufacturer which now predominantly builds aircraft engines, owes much of its success to the thousands of highly skilled UK workers who’ve made the business the bastion of world-class engineering it is today. In a short-term bid to cut costs amid profit losses, however, Rolls-Royce announced a global restructuring exercise […]
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Nothing comes from nothing
It’s that time of year again—the government announces a minimum wage hike, as it did on Tuesday (March 17), and pats itself on the back for how much it’s improved the lot of the lowest paid and hardest working among us. The statutory minimum will go up to a grand total of £6.70 an […]
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#Budget2015: A review of how the Chancellor manipulated the figures to political ends
At the Autumn Statement in December last year, the extent of the failure to reduce the deficit was laid bare. The Chancellor took a political hammering for the extent of future cuts that he had planned to set matters right (leaving aside the implausibi…Read more…
“We will not be intimidated” – blacklist protestors take to the streets again this evening
BSG members call demo outside Band Street station at 5.30pmRead more…
Trade Unions and the law – as in UNITE so in UNISON?
Len McCluskey is right that unions must be able to fight for workers even if it means breaking bad laws – see his article in the Guardian reporting an important decision of UNITE’s Executive;
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The General Secretary of our sister u…Read more…
Neville Lawrence named as keynote speaker for Move on Up North
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