Paying a privatised English water company to provide Scottish public water to Scotland’s public services has to be the ultimate in market madness.
An article in yesterday’s Sunday Times reports that…Read more…
Fiona Bruce’s abortion amendment: an attack on women’s rights
This evening Parliament will debate an amendment to the Serious Crime Bill which represents a significant and retrograde step in UK legislation on abortion. The amendment concerns abortions on the grounds of foetal sex – a practice which is commonplace in many countries but for which there is no…Read more…
Fair Pay – why we fight for a living wage
Five million workers are earning less than the living wageRead more…
Is a new consensus emerging on how we pay pensions?
It is not often that someone from the TUC is invited to write a foreword for a pamphlet published by the Centre for Policy Studies – a think-tank whose website is headed by an approving quotation from Margaret Thatcher. But then it is something of a surprise – and to their credit…Read more…
Britain’s Living Wage Blackspots
One in five jobs pay less than the living wage. But you won’t find them evenly distributed across the UK. In some constituencies, over half of full-time workers get less than living wages. We’ve mapped almost every constituency in England, Wales, and Scotland below: Source: House of…Read more…
Channel 4 concedes from six episodes to one – Time to cancel all of Immigration Street!
Last week the campaign of unions, residents and activists in and around Southampton to put pressure on Channel 4 to cancel a controversial six part series of a show titled ‘Immigration Street’,…Read more…
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Punching above our weight
UNISON was the UK’s top political donor in the fourth quarter of 2014! Electoral Commission data published last week confirms that a total of £1,384,289 was donated to the Labour Party from our…Read more…
No wonder bosses don’t want a Labour Government. Pure greed…
We are being taken for mugs. Workers and the share owners of companies (such as pension and insurance policy holders) alike are being ripped off. The father of modern day economics, Adam Smith, (not someone I usually cite and whose book “Wealth of Nati…Read more…
Freedom of Speech, so long as you keep shtum?
“FREEDOM OF SPEECH” has been much talked about lately, in the wake of the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ killings and with regard to such slightly less serious matters as the enthusiasm with which some groups of…Read more…
Trade union members accused after losing leader in bomb blast
A deadly terrorist attack rocked Mogadishu in Somalia yesterday when a female suicide bomber working as a receptionist blew herself up at the Central Hotel during Friday prayers. 25 people were…Read more…
“I am proud to be a trade unionist, to be a member of the Labour Party and to be a socialist”
Well said Dennis.Read more…
Speech: UAF Conference
Session “ After Copenhagen, Chapel Hill and Paris attacks: Uniting against Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and fascism in Europe” It is always a pleasure to speak at UAF events. The CWU believes that UAF…Read more…
LATEST: Steelworkers – Oil Strike Expands : 7,000 Workers On Strike
The United Steelworkers (USW) announced that it will expand its unfair labour practice strike (ULP) by launching a work stoppage at midnight at the Motiva Enterprises refinery in Port Arthur, Texas….Read more…
Ofsted has become a weapon of fear and terror – it’s time for a different approach
In private, and off the record, politicians of all political persuasions will admit that Ofsted is no longer, if it ever was, the key to raising educational standards. It is now widely acknowledged…Read more…
Fair pay starts at home: report reveals widespread low pay in Leicester garment industry
It’s Fairpay Fortnight at the TUC. One of the sectors we know workers particularly face low pay is the garment industry. Usually it is the very low rates of pay workers are given in countries like Cambodia and Bangladesh that we hear about. A new report produced for the Ethical Trading…Read more…
Ofsted must re-think the way it collects and uses evidence during inspection
By Terry Pearson Mary Bousted blogged well last year about the inadequacies of Ofsted quality assurance systems. I’d like to look at one of the fundamental problems with Ofsted’s methodology…Read more…
News roundup: Qatar under attack! Sort of.
It’s never reassuring when anyone, having been caught doing something bad, apologises, promises to fix things, but then starts telling everyone else that you’re being really unfair on…Read more…
Speak up for Justice – Not the Global Law Summit
The Speak up for Justice campaign calls for an integrated, publicly owned, accessible and accountable justice system that protects our right to justice. We also campaign against cuts to jobs and services and for a properly funded justice system. The ca…Read more…
London Loop Walk: Section 2 – Old Bexley to Jubilee Park
Off message but photos are from the 2nd London Loop Walk last Sunday. This was just under 8 miles and much more attractive than the first. The riverside walk along the River Cray was very muddy but it was fun watching daft dogs jumping into the freezin…Read more…