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Friday 3 July 2015
UNISON Scotland’s Health Committee today welcomed a
breakthrough in the fight against poverty pay with the Scottish
Government agreeing to a review of the lowest pay band.
This development highlights the benefits of
Partnership working which has been the basis of industrial relations
in NHSScotland since 1999 and further enshrinesRead more…
Crushed by bales of hay, trampled by a bull or run over by a reversing tractor – these are just a handful of the gruesome causes of death in farming, the most peril-fraught sector in the economy….Read more…
Save the date!
Branch Summer Social!
7pm on Tuesday 28 July 2015 at the Tempest Inn, right on Brighton seafront.
There will be free drinks for early birds and quality nibbles too. Bring a partner…Read more…
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey today (July 3) urged the Chancellor to change gear in order to work with the UK’s unions and their six million plus members to renew the country’s…Read more…
James Wold
3 July 2015
By James Wold, Marquette University Law School
The following article is the first in what we hope to be a series of articles by a colleague from Wisconsin, James Wold. James…Read more…
Danish unions are planning solidarity actions directed at the fiercely anti-union airline Ryanair, which started operating from Copenhagen last March.Read more…
A call for a new asbestos eradication law requiring the safe, planned removal of all the asbestos that still remains in place was made by Unite at a conference in London today (July 3) to mark…Read more…
The implementation of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) has resulted in “large reductions in legal help workload and expenditure”, reveal new Ministry of Justice (MoJ) statistics. The statistics reveal that government reforms and spending cuts have led directly…Read more…
This ground-breaking 96-page report puts the health and social care sector at the centre of importance to achieve sustainable economic growth. Commissioned by New Directions, the definitive analysis…Read more…
Gary Kilroy and Lynn Barrer are the first to tie the knot at the village’s museumRead more…
Union says the only way to remove the danger and protect future generations is to eradicate asbestos from all workplacesRead more…
Union says there is a “comprehensive breakdown in industrial relations”.Read more…
Well, after David Cameron prepared us for savage cuts to Child Tax Credit, lots of people expected that the government was going to change the Child Poverty Act substantially. After all, the last five years of cuts led the Institute for Fiscal Studies …Read more…
ARRIVAL in a strange land. Sculpture at Liverpool Street station commemorates Kindertransport
THANKYOU letter to Nicholas Winton Read more…
Unite and the GMB union accused Nestlé UK of acting in ‘bad faith’ today (July 2) as the company announced plans to close its career average pension scheme in a move that unpicks pension changes…Read more…
Councillor Report to West Ham Ward
WEST HAM WARD LABOUR PARTY
tel: 020 3373 2615 or email John.Gray@newham.gov.uk
Ward meeting 2 July 2015
Thursday 4 June I attended the ward meeting at Vicarage Lane and then the joint ward social at Nando’s restaurant in Stratford which I thought went…Read more…
The gap between low income family budgets and what they need for a decent standard of living is now much wider than before the start of the global recession which followed the 2008 banking collapse….Read more…
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1 July 2015
By Roger Jeary, IER Blogger
On the hottest day in London this year, the Institute welcomed delegates to the GMB London Office to hear from leading legal and academic experts on the…Read more…
A last-minute European Parliament compromise deal poses a real risk MEPs settle for a damaging ISDS-lite plan.Read more…