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Ilford North needs all the help it can get on polling day (and the run up). Volunteer here http://www.wesstreeting.org/polling_day_2015
Tomorrow (Sunday 3 May) at 2pm West Ham Labour are joining comrades from East Ham to campaign for Wes.
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On Tuesday 28 April it was Workers Memorial Day. An international day to remember those who have been killed at work or die from work related ill health. UNISON estimates this kills up to 50,000 workers every year in the UK.
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letter to Tuc from the Trades Council https://iowtuc.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/letter-to-tuc-from-the-trades-council/ Megan Dobney Regional Secetary Sertuc Congress House Great Russell Street London…Read more…
Well worth reading. An interesting paper produced by David Bailey, Gill Bentley, Alex de Ruyter and Stephen Hall. Click here to download the pdf.Read more…
CPAG, Scotland’s most high profile child poverty charity, and UNISON, Scotland’s biggest trade union have joined together to call on political parties to lay out policies to tackle in-work poverty.
The call comes as the two organisations release their report Fair Work and Decent Childhoods – policies for those who work to live lives free of poverty. They call for investment in the socialRead more…
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Unite general secretary Len McCluskey spoke to LBC Radio this evening (May 1), urging the British people to take stock of the enormously important decision facing the electorate on May 7. …Read more…
There’s a no-nonsense streak to Ian Davidson which can only be a strength on the doorstep during the cut and thrust of an election campaign. “The issues here are a lack of income and under…Read more…
Grand Central, a luxury development to be constructed on a derelict site in Cambridge, will only have eight affordable homes. This is in an area where over 2,000 people languish on council house…Read more…
China’s bureau of statistics published the latest migrant workers’ report in late April. Migrant workers are the crucial contributors to the growth of China’s manufacturing and services industries,…Read more…
A report from the Public Interest Research Unit on behalf of Disabled People Against Cuts shows the cumulative impact of the Coalition government’s policies on disabled workers in employment. Although the report’s author, Rupert Harwood, acknowledges the self-selecting basis of his study of…Read more…
Britain’s largest union, Unite, announced today (Tuesday 28 April) that it was launching a confidential advice and support line as part of a campaign to confront abusive ‘Victorian’ work practices at…Read more…
Ambulance Service staff belonging to the Unite union have said they are to go on strike on 6 May. About 150 staff out of the ambulance service’s total workforce of 1,100 are members of Unite….Read more…
Midwives in Northern Ireland staged a four-hour strike from 08:00 BST and 12:00 BST on Thursday in a pay dispute. The strike is over a 1% pay rise that was awarded last year to all midwives in…Read more…
What did last night’s Question Time with the “three leaders” tell us? Certainly that the public likes it political meat raw and there remains real anger out there at the “political class”. …Read more…
NIGEL FARAGE, the valiant champion of British liberties and freedom of speech, has complained to police about a remark made on the BBC satirical news programme ‘Have I Got News for You’,…Read more…
The Working Class Must Keep the Initiative in its Own Hands On the occasion of May Day, RCPB(ML) sends warm greetings to the working class in Britain and internationally who are in struggle, building…Read more…
Over 300 workers from the Markinch paper mill Tullis Russell met in Glenrothes yesterday (April 30) with emotions running high following 325 shock redundancies earlier this week after company…Read more…
Friday 1 May 2015
UNISON is furious that The Richmond Fellowship
Scotland is refusing to pay hundreds of pounds in back pay to staff
who have not been paid the national minimum wage.
The trade union will be taking legal action against The
Richmond Fellowship Scotland, who provides care services across
Scotland. UNISON believe The Richmond Fellowship Scotland hasRead more…