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In the coverage of the GDP figures last week, some attention was paid to the ONS observation that on a per head basis GDP in 2015 Q2 is likely to be back to the pre-crisis level. This may be all well and good, but is hardly a measure of economic performance. The relevant measure is…
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Here is my piece in the Morning Star on the things I am looking forward to in this year’s Edinburgh Festivals. This year the Star will have four of us providing reviews of various events, and my…Read more…
This motion was passed by Tower Hamlets Council at its last meeting. Inside Housing reports that One Housing is in urgent talks to try and stop it being suspended as a perferred housing provider.
Urgent Motion regarding One Housing Group
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posted by ruby utting July 09, 2015 Why should climate campaigners be involved in the battle against austerity? We are as likely as anyone else to be moved by the plight of disabled people whose…Read more…
Malaysian firm to market Cuban vaccine against cancer Since 2008, Malaysian biotech firm Bioven has been undertaking the clinical development of the Cuban vaccine in Europe and parts of Asia and…Read more…
My Ferry Link workers burn tyres across key motorway to port, causing gridlock. One of the My Ferry Link workers participating in Thursday’s strike in Calais pledges more action if their terms are…Read more…
Volume 45 Number 22, August 1, 2015 ARCHIVE HOME JBCENTRE SUBSCRIBE All Must Take a Stand in Defence of the Right to Organise and the Rights of All! Workers’ Weekly Internet Edition: Article…Read more…
Last Saturday I resumed my plan to walk around London along the loop walks after a gap since May. Saturday was better than Sunday since railway and bus links, there and back, are much better. I used the Transport for London (tfl) guide since I couldn’t…Read more…
Nationalisation is returning to the political agenda these days. To talk about whether a nationalisation is “good or bad” is neither here nor there. So it it is ridiculous for anyone to…Read more…
Socialist comrades have expressed as much shock as pleasure at the news that UNISON gave our supporting nomination in the Labour leadership contest to Jeremy Corbyn. (Even though some reported this without comment…)
I really should have believed the …Read more…
In the immediate aftermath of the Parliamentary Labour Party’s failure to oppose the Welfare Bill, its MPs with the sole exception of Dennis Skinner abstained on an amendment to decline a second…Read more…
Another council insider, David Green, adds more on the website Room 151 to the sorry tale of the LOBO debacle after watching the recent Parliamentary Select Committee investigation.
He recalls as a former local authority treasury management officer, …Read more…
MATCHGIRLS,1888 strike lit way for new trade unionism.
CABLE Street, in the East End of London, entered the pages of history on October 4,1936, when police attempting to force a way through for…Read more…
The government can’t be accused of pussy-footing about. In this Parliament we’ve already had the most radical Budget for 20 years, an attack on trade unions that out-Tebbits Norman Tebbit and cuts to tax credits that will force thousands of low-paid workers and their children into…Read more…
Corporations, Rich individuals, finance capitalists and employers’ organisations should be banned from making political contributions to political parties. We need to reform the electoral…Read more…
3 August 2015
By Andrew Moretta, World of Work PhD student, Liverpool University
Truck drivers are highly skilled professionals. A moment’s inattention when driving a 26 ton vehicle can have…Read more…
Some Friday Fun – hat tip General Boles on Twitter. Apologies for formatting. Read more…
Gita Paul was born in Lithuania and came to the UK in 2005 as a 20-year-old looking for work.
The article Gita’s story first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Hyndburn Local Government Branch’s Digital Inclusion project is taking learning out into the community.
The article Getting Hyndburn online first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…