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…
Unions are partners in productivity
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…
Whispers from Wisconsin – Taking lessons from austerity’s newest victim
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 take on Ryanair
Danish unions are planning solidarity actions directed at the fiercely anti-union airline Ryanair, which started operating from Copenhagen last March.Read more…
Protect our futures
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…
New MoJ figures reveal assault on access to justice, as spending cuts caused huge drop in legal aid work
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…
The New Health and Social Care Economy – Dexter Whitfield
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…
Love (less) match – couple to wed at Tolpuddle Festival
Gary Kilroy and Lynn Barrer are the first to tie the knot at the village’s museumRead more…
Unite calls for new asbestos law to save 5,000 lives a year
Union says the only way to remove the danger and protect future generations is to eradicate asbestos from all workplacesRead more…
BREAKING: RMT members announce six-day strike on Southern Rail
Union says there is a “comprehensive breakdown in industrial relations”.Read more…
Iain Duncan Smith tears up the Child Poverty Act – and tells us he’s going to “improve” it
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…
Blue Skies, Sir Nicholas, and Fair
ARRIVAL in a strange land. Sculpture at Liverpool Street station commemorates Kindertransport
THANKYOU letter to Nicholas Winton Read more…
‘Act of betrayal’
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 2 July 2014
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 ever widening gap
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…
#BarnetStrikers know what it’s about
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Human Rights at Work: possibilities and problems for Labour Law
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…
Tell MEPs not to make a bad compromise on ISDS in TTIP
A last-minute European Parliament compromise deal poses a real risk MEPs settle for a damaging ISDS-lite plan.Read more…
Could CDC hatch from NEST?
Legislation paving the way for new-style collective pensions was one of several achievements in Steve Webb’s tenure as the Coalition government’s Pensions Minister. Collective Defined Contribution (CDC) pensions are a mainstay of the Dutch pensions system and have been used in other…Read more…
Living Wage demand
A 12-hour strike by Croydon drivers and escorts, who transport clients such as disabled children, will be staged tomorrow (July 3) against the tight-fisted Impact Group which refuses to pay the…Read more…