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Tories throw down the gauntlet – how shall we pick it up?
http://m.campaignseries.co.uk/news/national/11715463.Tories_vow_to_toughen_strike_laws/
Whereas the Tory announcement about caps on public sector redundancy payments was simply an electioneering gimmick, their plans to toughen further anti-strike laws …Read more…
Hadi Saleh’s legacy, ten years on
Today is the tenth anniversary of martyrdom of Hadi Saleh, international officer of the Iraqi trade union movement and my close friend. The union centre he represented, now known as the GFITU, is…Read more…
More Conservative anti-strike laws to come if elected:
Conservatives pledge public sector strike curbs The Conservative Party says it will make it harder to call strikes in public services if it wins the general election. Under the plans, a strike…Read more…
Vigils for Charlie Hebdo victims in Bristol and Cardiff
VIGILS FOR CHARLIE HEBDO VICTIMS IN BRISTOL AND CARDIFF THIS WEEKEND Dear Colleagues, Bristol vigil There is a vigil in Bristol today Saturday 10 January to show support for the victims of the…Read more…
Help the people of Gaza: TUC Aid Appeal Gaza Plant Nursery
TUC Aid is appealing for donations to rebuild the Beit Lahia Plant Nursery in Gaza, which was badly damaged during the 2014 Israeli offensive. The majority of Gaza’s 1.6 million people are…Read more…
Underpaying the minimum wage & exploiting migrants
The shocking news that the number of bad bosses who underpay the minimum wage to young workers has risen dramatically in the last few years has implications for the continuing debate about migration in the UK: here’s why. One of the main concerns that working people have about immigration…Read more…
LGPS Pension Boards: Model UNISON Magna Carta
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE There are about 4.6 million people in the UK who are members (active, deferred or retired) of the Local Government …Read more…
Circle: The first private firm to manage an NHS hospital says it wants to “withdraw from its contract”
Hinchingbrooke Hospital: Circle to withdraw from contract BBC Circle became the first private firm to manage an NHS hospital three years ago A company which became the first private firm to manage…Read more…
50 per cent more young people cheated out of minimum wage since 2010 – new government figures shock
The government today published new estimates for non-compliance with the national minimum wage*. These show a shocking increase in the number of employees aged 16-20 underpaid, up from 67,000 in 2010 to 102,000 now, which amounts to a 52 per cent rise. In itself, this figure shows that the TUC was…Read more…
Cameron’s NHS “crisis, what crisis?” moment
In response to the growing and widely reported crisis in A&E across the NHS in England, David Cameron dismissed trade union “scaremongering” and referred to the issue as “short-term pressure”. Let’s recap the issues that David Cameron describes as “short-term pressure”: A financial situation…Read more…
Saving Our Safety Net Fact of the Week: men in the richest areas live nine years longer than men in the poorest areas
If, like me, your New Year’s Resolution was to switch to a healthier lifestyle you may have been thinking a lot about life expectancy. (I wonder how many people had a look at the Death Clock at the start of the year!) And that’s what prompted me to think about poverty and inequality and life…Read more…
Point the pensions horse in the right direction
The festive season may be over but UK pensions policy continues to pull in two directions like a comedy pantomime horse. It seems that Pensions Minster Steve Webb had his eggnog spiked by his market-obsessed Treasury colleagues because his first post-Christmas outing was to propose a new trade in…Read more…
2015: Reasons to be Cheerful
Colleagues,
Have returned to Ruskin from the Christmas break and, as it is as hectic as ever, I am copping out slightly of writing an original first post for 2015, by referencing a great article written In These Times just before the en…Read more…
Iraqi unions build protest on jobs, wages and union rights
2015 began with a fresh new wave of industrial action across Iraq (apart from Iraqi Kurdistan) organised by the national trade union centre, the GFITU. The action centred on several demands,…Read more…
Planned future spending cuts return us to the Geddes Axe of the 1920s
On the basis of the OBR projections for future spending cuts, the only more severe consolidation in over a century was the Geddes Axe of 1921-23. That these disastrous policies are the nearest precedent for any prospective economic action beggars belief.Read more…
New Picturehouse to pay Living Wage: Let’s push for all of them!
Significant development in BECTU’s campaign to win living wages for all workers in the Picturehouse cinemas.Read more…
National minimum wage – no hiding place for cheapskate bosses
The TUC today called for enforcement of the minimum wage to be greatly strengthened and published a 10-point plan for strengthening this vital legal protection during the next parliament. We have welcomed the improvements already made by successive gov…Read more…
Time for an ethical energy policy
The £8m short term government loan for employee-owned Hatfield colliery, Yorkshire, is a welcome move by the government to protect hundreds of skilled jobs. But that such a loan is needed at all reflects the government’s failure to develop a long term strategy for UK coal in our energy mix,…Read more…
Brain washed morons pretending they are doing God’s work.
“We stand in solidarity with France against this evil attack by terrorists intent on attacking our democratic way of life & freedom of speech”. Well said Ed (Miliband). Read more…