Check-off, the system by which union members’ subscriptions are automatically deducted from their salaries, has come under threat as the government unveiled today (August 6) measures that would end…Read more…
Nightmare of the night shift
As the second day of a two-day strike among tube workers kicks off today (August 6), many commuters may wonder what the fuss is all about. Don’t tube drivers get £50,000 a year? Hasn’t London…Read more…
“Sex work should not cost me my life”
Sex workers in Cape Town, South Africa, demonstrate to demand justice for murdered colleagueRead more…
‘Now we have a real voice’
With less than a week left to go for the deadline to sign up to vote in the Labour leadership election on August 12, Labour supporters up and down the country are preparing for what’s set to be a…Read more…
“Inappropriate, over the top, dire, painful, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, restrictive and unimaginative”
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‘Check off’ to end:
Automatic union fee payments ‘to end in public sector’ Plans to stop public sector workers automatically paying subscriptions to trade unions through their salaries have been unveiled by…Read more…
Burgess blows the whistle on Tory sneak attack upon our pension rights
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Monetary policy committee minutes betray worries about the economy?
In spite of fevered speculation about rate rises in the not too distant future, only one member of the MPC voted for interest rate rises (Ian McCafferty of the CBI). The minutes betray some concerns about the underlying momentum of the economy going forward. On GDP the Committee note that…Read more…
Government’s union membership changes are aimed at undermining public service workers’ rights
The Trade Union Bill keeps getting bigger as the Government find more ways they can rebalance power away from the workforce. The rapidly increasing package of measures contained in the Bill seeks to reduce the capacity of unions to represent people at …Read more…
Scotland remembers Hiroshima and Nagasaki
#nomorehiroshimas Seventy years ago today the first atomic bomb was dropped by the US aircraft Enola Gay on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, with a second bomb dropped on Nagasaki three days later.
The impact was truly devastating, killing at least 70,000 instantly in Hiroshima, and tens of thousands more through radiation sickness. It has had immense long term repercussions on the health ofRead more…
Attacks on unions are attacks on working people too, says UNISON
UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis commens on government proposals to prevent people who work in the public sector from paying their union membership fees directly from their wages.
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Two decades’ privatisation in just a year
Osborne plans £32bn ‘sale of the century’ Morning Star CHANCELLOR George Osborne will privatise public assets this year worth more than the last two decades of sell-offs combined, new analysis showed…Read more…
Prentis: redundancy cap will hit hundreds of thousands
“Proposed public-sector redundancy cap will affect hundreds of thousands of workers providing vital public services”, warns UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis
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Unions21 publishes collection of articles from Labour’s leadership candidates
The exam question Labour’s leadership candidates were posed for our new publication was set by the Unions21 steering committee: “Outline your views on fair work, particularly focusing on work…Read more…
FGM – Are we talking to the right people?
A longer version of this article was originally posted on Safer Schools. Over the past few years media attention on female genital mutilation (FGM) has increased dramatically. From a subject that…Read more…
I don’t want to say I told you so…
The Guardian is reporting the Government’s announcement that public sector workers are to lose our right to have union fees deducted from our wages (a change to be made, it would appear, by way of an amendment to the already published Trade Union Bill);
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Unions respond to check-off attack
The government has said it is scrapping the system under which public sector workers can have trade union subscriptions deducted straight from their salaries TUC Assistant General Secretary Paul…Read more…
Workers’ Capital Conference 2015
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The real Osborne Fiscal Policy
The above is the real reason why Barnet UNISON members are facing mass outsourcing.
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5 types of tosh people are talking about the #TubeStrike
The #TubeStrike hashtag today isn’t one for the faint hearted. The Independent have thoughtfully compiled a tutorial for those who’d rather simply block it all out, but I’ve a kind…Read more…