Because I’m a geeky person, I often search Investegate for AGM results. I just found this RNS announcement from Diploma PLC from Wednesday –
All of the resolutions put to shareholders at the Annual General Meeting were passed by poll votes and the resu…Read more…
Why I’m Boycotting Beer In Cans
By Marty Warren is United Steelworkers Director for Ontario and Atlantic Canada, representing 74,000 working people. With all the publicity focused on the Beer Store in recent weeks, there is another…Read more…
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you
Workers who are not members of a trade unions please note. Read more…
‘Stop dumping on waste management staff’ says UNISON Scotland
Fri 23 Jan 2015
UNISON Scotland conducted surveys amongst staff working in waste management across Scotland’s local authorities. The results revealed a workforce under pressure facing increasing targets and declining budgets.
In a report Dumped On – Working in Scotland’s Waste Management Servicesthe union details the experience and expectations of a workforce trying do their job in an aRead more…
Speech: Retired members’ conference
As always, it is a privilege to address the Retired Members Conference. By remaining in membership you are continuing your commitment to the union. This is tremendously valuable to the rest of the…Read more…
When unions meet capital markets…
Anyone interested in the capacity for trade unions to mobilise the capital sitting in our pension funds should take a look at the Global Proxy Review produced by the Committee on Workers’ Capital. The Review is intended as a tool for trade union truste…Read more…
E news 23 January 2015 “rich keep getting richer”
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TUC launches new guide in 13 languages to combat migrant worker exploitation
Today the TUC is launching the online guide Working in the UK in 13 languages including Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian and Portuguese and Italian to combat the exploitation of migrant workers. This…Read more…
T-TIP of the deregulation iceberg
‘It is not just TTIP, across the board the EU is bowing to business pressure to do away with ‘burdensome’ regulation – regulation that tends to save lives, protect consumers and ensure standards’…Read more…
Saving Our Safety Net Fact of the Week: 145,000 people using food banks because of benefit delays
I have difficult feelings whenever I see a report about the Trussell Trust. On the one hand, I admire them more than any other charity (and I kick myself if I get to the check-out at the Co-op and realise I’ve forgotten to include a tin for the food bank). But on the other hand…Read more…
Ilford North campaigning and cake with Lyn Brown MP
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Web links for 22nd January 2015
Training is essential in the labour market of today and tomorrow Skills and qualifications are needed more than ever and at every level, writes unionlearn’s Tom Wilson. The number of jobs needing no qualifications fell from 28% in 2006 to 23% in 2012; jobs requiring a degree rose from 20% to…Read more…
Why energy bills should be falling faster
Energy prices are back in the news as politicians call on the energy companies to reflect the oil price fall in their gas and electricity prices.
EoN were first out with a gas price cut, followed by…Read more…
Morning Star Hiring Campaigns Manager
Ian Stephens to stand as independent MP candidate after quitting Isle of Wight Council leadership
By Emily Pearce County Press Thursday, January 22, 2015 Cllr Ian Stephens, who quit as Isle of Wight Council leader, has said he will stand as an independent MP in the General Election. Picture by…Read more…
The 7 Deadly Myths that control the world economy…
Global Justice Now has done a great job in highlighting the 7 arguments that are presented as the deepest wisdom by Global Leaders on why the world economy is the way it is. Like a force of nature or…Read more…
Home care workers. Caring, professional and treated like shit
My Dad, who died 18 months back, had home care help in the last years of his illness. My Mum moved mountains to keep him at home, where he needed to be, but what she achieved simply wouldn’t have…Read more…
While the ECB print money, was ex-Governor Lord King calling for fiscal stimulus in the UK?
On Monday evening at the London School of Economics, Lord King, former Governor of the Bank of England, and Sir Alan Budd, former chief economist at HM Treasury and a founder member of the Monetary Policy Committee, had ‘a conversation about central banking’ with Professor Charles Goodhart in the…Read more…
Tory plans to restrict the right to strike have been widely condemned
22 January 2015
By Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC
Plans to place restrict the extreme restrictions on the right to strike are not consistent with international legal standards, write Keith…Read more…
UNISON Housing Association AGM 2015: London Assembly City Hall
The branch AGM is taking place at the London Assembly City Hall on Tuesday 17 February 2015 – 6pm to 8.30pm.
The theme of the meeting will be about “rights at work”.
City Hall is a wonderful and iconic modern London building, over looking the Thames…Read more…