Why a qualified workforce? Is this a question we should even be posing? Does it make sense to talk of an unqualified workforce? How is it that teaching in FE colleges or academies, independent…Read more…
GREECE:THE END OF AUSTERITY? – A MUST WATCH
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National Campaign Day with Lyn Brown and Harriet Harman – Sat 31 Jan
“Tomorrow is national campaign day. Lyn Brown MP and Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader of the Labour party, invite you to the opening of the new campaign centre for Bermondsey and Old Southwark – followed, of course, by a canvassing session for Labour’s ca…Read more…
Saving Our Safety Net Fact of the Week: 800,000 children live in families that are behind on their energy bills
(Warning: long post.) This week’s headline comes from Show Some Warmth, an excellent new report from the Children’s Society that looked at the problem of energy debt – families falling into debt because they cannot pay their energy bills. The report found that 3.8 million children live in…Read more…
“Rights at Work” UNISON Labour Link event at House of Commons
This is a fantastic picture from last weeks’ London UNISON Labour Link “Rights at Work” event for our members who live in Ilford North CLP. The event was organised by Lilian Greenwood MP (who use to be a UNISON national officer and is a great friend of…Read more…
TUC: HolocaustMemorialDay
#HolocaustMemorialDay 2015: Remember the holocaust 27 Jan 2015, By Frances O’Grady This Holocaust Memorial Day the spotlight is on the worrying growth of anti-semitism in Britain and elsewhere…Read more…
Why is BusinessEurope doing the banks’ dirty work?
BusinessEurope, the body which represents employers’ organisations around Europe (the CBI is its UK member) wrote last week to European Union finance ministers in a last ditch attempt to derail the European financial transactions tax (FTT, aka the Robin Hood Tax) that a group of Eurozone…Read more…
Civil service trade unionism under attack – public service trade unionists should respond
http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/pcs_comment/index.cfm/video-mark-serwotka-outlines-plan-for-pcs-future
The Tories (supported by their Lib Dem hangers on) are rehearsing – in the civil service – for the onslaught they intend to unleash upon all…Read more…
Our members will have their say
This week’s pay offer for NHS staff in England has brought two issues into sharp focus …Read more…
MP’s confirm poorest areas are worst hit by cuts
Councils in the most deprived areas of England have been hardest hit by cuts to their funding, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has said. Austerity cuts have not been applied equally since…Read more…
Tomlinson’s dishonest use of statistics
Credit where it’s due. Justin Tomlinson is consistent. He consistently attempts to mislead his electorate in relation to the employment situation in the town. Once again he is trying to con people by presenting the Job Seekers Allowance numbers as the unemployment level. Why does he continue…Read more…
Economics: history tells us austerity doesn’t work
28 January 2015
By Sue Konzelmann and Frank Wilkinson.
Osborne argues that the economy is on the road to recovery. Cameron claims that the government is well on the way to reducing the national…Read more…
In fact, this is the slowest UK ‘recovery’ ON RECORD
A second look at historic GDP data shows the current ‘recovery’ is the slowest on record (which extend back to 1830), rather than the slowest recovery in modern history, as we reported yesterday. This chart shows index numbers of recoveries in GDP from the bottom of each recession to…Read more…
Holocaust Memorial Day – Old Town Hall, Stratford
Yesterday I went to a Holocaust Memorial Day, ceremony organised by Newham Council which took place in the Old Town Hall in Stratford, E15.
The hall was packed with residents and pupils from local schools.
It began with a choir singing a sp…Read more…
A UK Foreign Policy for the Middle East – Newham Compass 17 Feb 2015
This is going to be a really interesting event. It clashes with my UNISON branch AGM. Which is a real shame as Mike is always an entertaining speaker and was the former chair of the foreign affairs select committee. Read more…
GDP figures hide an unbalanced economic recovery
Today’s GDP figures look good on an annual basis, but they hide a slowdown in the last two quarters that starts to look like a trend.
GDP, grew 0.5% in the fourth quarter of the year, compared with…Read more…
Vote Alan Pottage number 1
RMT Waterloo Branch News (1636) 2015-01-27 18:52:00
Shipload of Memories
I’M always a bit wary about stories that claim to be reporting “Jewish outrage” about something or other. Not that Jews haven’t the right to be outraged about anything. But too often the…Read more…
NHS strike suspended – what are the lessons from local government about consultation?
http://www.unison.org.uk/planned-nhs-strike-suspended
Ahead of Thursday’s planned strike action, the NHS trade unions (led by UNISON) have suspended that and any further action whilst members are consulted on an offer which our Head of Health describes…Read more…