The UK steel industry presented a united front to government ministers at the steel summit in Rotherham today (October 16). And as the coke ovens were shutting down in Redcar on Teesside the…Read more…
Tata Steel ‘set to cut 1,200 jobs’
Tata Steel is expected to announce 1,200 job cuts at its Scunthorpe steel plant next week. It is thought that the company could also axe more jobs in Scotland. Tata has not denied reports which said…Read more…
Capital-Centred vs Human-Centred Thinking
Capital-centred thinking underscores the current anti-social direction. This retrograde thinking puts the ownership and control of social wealth and narrow private interests as most important. It…Read more…
Global unions gather in Scotland to unite workers across industrial sectors
ITF-IndustriAll joint initiative aims to unite workers across supply chains at geographical industrial hubs.Read more…
The government is failing teaching assistants, says UNISON
Government slammed for dropping the long-awaited teaching assistants standards
The article The government is failing teaching assistants, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
WTF?! Four dangerous trade deals – and the acronyms they hide behind
CETA, TTIP, TISA … confused? Here’s our handy guide to those awkward acronyms.Read more…
Asian Cleaners on strike 1985
NUPE & COHSE Asian cleaners on strike at Hillingdon Hospital 23rd May 1985 against pay cuts and privatisationRead more…
Neasden Hospital Occupation 1986
Nurses Clinical Grading Dispute 1988
NUPE and COHSE Nurses at North Manchester General Hospital burn job description forms in 1988Read more…
Hounslow Hospital Occupation 1977
COHSE Ambulance Personnel
London Nurses Demand Affordable Housing
London nurses campaign for affordable housing circa 1997 at Battersea power station, LondonRead more…
London Nurses campaign aginst cuts 1996
COHSE Nurses strike 1988 Maudsley Hospital
COHSE Nurses Maudsley Hospital 1988
OBR wrong to continue absolving Osborne’s polices for a deficit now 3x larger than planned
TUC has argued that the economy and public finances were derailed over the coalition years because government spending cuts had a larger-than-expected impact on the wider economy (see e.g. blog, paper). Earlier this week the Office for Budget Responsib…Read more…
When steelworkers needed them most, ministers walked away …
MEP Jude Kirton-Darling says the UK government must act to save jobs on TeesideRead more…
‘Steel heart’ strategy plea
As the business secretary Sajid Javid opens today’s steel industry summit (October 16), Unite has demanded the government “pursues an industrial strategy with a ‘steel heart’.” …Read more…
Qatar wants us to check our facts – it’s time they let us
Next month Qatar has a chance to put its disputed record on workers’ rights to the test When Zaha Hadid, architect of Qatar’s under-construction Al Wakrah football stadium, lashed out at the BBC last…Read more…
Episode 5: ‘I don’t need any help’
Sounds familiar? If you work in the hospitality industry you can join www.unitetheunion.org – if you earn less than the Living Wage (£9.15ph in London, £7.85 outside) for just £2.10 per week….Read more…