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A few years back, when I was blogging more regularly, Afren was one of the companies I always used to keep an eye on. This was because it clearly had some governance challenges, not least in respect of directors’ pay.
As far as I am aware it remains t…Read more…
A topical subject again after May 7. I suspect that those of us who support a change in “first past the post” missed the boat during the AV referendum and we are now stuck with the current system for at least the next 5 years.
Yet it is important that…Read more…
North Yorkshire Branch secretary Wendy Nichols elected to union’s top lay positionRead more…
UCU says shows staff suffering an “unacceptable” level of psychological distress and exhaustionRead more…
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Union says Britain’s railways will be jammed in the slow lane all the time they are nothing more than a money making racket for the private sectorRead more…
Unite warned that the closure of the Goodyear factory in Wolverhampton, with the loss of up to 400 jobs, would devastate the local economy and was being taken because British workers are easier and…Read more…
The government’s announcement to sell off a large chunk of the Green Investment Bank (GIB) to the private sector is ‘a slap in the face’ for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) seeking much…Read more…
It took the Tory-led coalition which took office in 2010 only three years to push another 500,000 children into absolute poverty, according to new figures released today. And it took them only four…Read more…
Unions to demonstrate against government’s austerity agenda and attacks on trade unionsRead more…
Frances O’Grady welcomes the first Royal College to join the TUCRead more…
It is welcome that this morning the Financial Times is reporting (behind a paywall) that the Work and Pensions Committee, under its new chairman Frank Field, is to scrutinise so-called pensions freedom reform. The policy, which means savers in defined contribution pensions no longer have to buy an…Read more…
The Green Investment Bank (GIB), which launched its annual report today, has helped drive investment in low carbon energy projects. It is the UK’s most active investor in the green economy. But today the government has announced it will sell a majority stake in the bank to help fund austerity…Read more…
TUC says many LGBT people, whether they are young or old, still face huge discrimination and injusticeRead more…
John McDonnell secures adjournment debate in the Commons on the plans that have led to long-running PCS strikeRead more…
NASUWT says schools and teachers are being left to pick up the pieces of Tory’s “scandalous” economic policiesRead more…
This article from National Housing Federation shows that not only are rents in UK the most expensive but double the European average.
A staggering 40% of income is spent on rent compared to 28% European average.
This means that workers have less mone…Read more…
TUC’s Pre-Budget statement calls on government to ensure workers receive higher wages and decent working conditionsRead more…
TUC warns Cameron not to jeopardise the rights of British workers in his bid to renegotiate Britain’s membership of the EURead more…
NK HAJDUK, 1944, with new red stars and friends on the island of Vis.
IT was back in the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the years before the First World War. A group of…Read more…