Disabled workers describe struggle to work twenty years after Disability Discrimination Act
The article Cuts threaten disabled people in work first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
March for the climate, justice and jobs in November
Dave Prentis urges members to marchin London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast ahead of UN climate change talks
The article March for the climate, justice and jobs in November first appeared on the…Read more…
Quebec Public Sector Workers Call National Strike
Public service workers in Common Front lead demonstration in Montreal, October 3, 2015. The 400,000 member Common Front of public sector unions in Quebec announced on October 9 that they will launch…Read more…
Quebec Public Sector Workers Call National Strike
Public service workers in Common Front lead demonstration in Montreal, October 3, 2015. The 400,000 member Common Front of public sector unions in Quebec announced on October 9 that they will launch…Read more…
We Shall Overcome has made music matter again
Joe Solo reflects a new phenomenon … and starts planing next year’s eventRead more…
Equal pay laws must go further, say unions
TUC says legislation should be extended to medium-sized companiesRead more…
Eurozone crosses Rubicon as Portugal’s anti-euro Left banned from power
Portugal has entered dangerous political waters. For the first time since the creation of Europe’s monetary union, a member state has taken the explicit step of forbidding eurosceptic parties from…Read more…
Eurozone crosses Rubicon as Portugal’s anti-euro Left banned from power
Portugal has entered dangerous political waters. For the first time since the creation of Europe’s monetary union, a member state has taken the explicit step of forbidding eurosceptic parties from…Read more…
The West Ham 3 Johns at work – Punk John, Chic John and ? John
Busy Saturday. First, was Councillor Surgery at Brasset Point Tenants & Residents Room (had a tricky planning “Stop Notice” issue); then memorial tribute to PC Nina MacKay followed by ward “walkabout” in Dirleton Road E15 with concerned residents (…Read more…
Teachers form new Arab trade union bloc
Seventeen education unions and associations representing sixteen Arab countries from the Middle East and North Africa met on 7-8 October in Beirut in Lebanon to establish a new Arab teachers’ trade…Read more…
PC Nina Mackay 24 October 2015
This morning I was present at a memorial tribute to murdered PC Nina Mackay. The 25 year old was stabbed while trying to arrest a wanted man at a flat in Arthingworth Street, West Ham ward on October 24, 1997.
Local Police Officers and members from th…Read more…
World’s Biggest Union Elects New Leadership
The world’s biggest trade union, Germany’s IG Metall elected a new leadership at its Congress last week in Frankfurt. The 2.5 million member union has elected Joerg Hofmann, aged 59, dubbed ‘a tough…Read more…
Libertarianism is the Philosophy that upholds Bourgeois and Monopoly Right
Hegel said, “freedom is the appreciation of necessity”, but whose necessity are we looking at, is it the necessity for socialism or the necessity for capitalism? Libertarianism is the…Read more…
Libertarianism is the Philosophy that upholds Bourgeois and Monopoly Right
Hegel said, “freedom is the appreciation of necessity”, but whose necessity are we looking at, is it the necessity for socialism or the necessity for capitalism? Libertarianism is the…Read more…
The Chancellor is borrowing four times more than planned, says TUC
21 October 2015 New public sector finance figures published today (Wednesday) by the Office for National Statistics, show that public spending cuts are a failed strategy for reducing the deficit,…Read more…
The Chancellor is borrowing four times more than planned, says TUC
21 October 2015 New public sector finance figures published today (Wednesday) by the Office for National Statistics, show that public spending cuts are a failed strategy for reducing the deficit,…Read more…
Scunthorpe steel cash is an insult, say unions
Unions have said the £9m support package for the steel industry in the North East is woefully inadequate. The government and Tata Steel yesterday announced they will jointly fund the package to…Read more…
FBU launches Facebook page
Union encourages members to ‘like’ and ‘share’ new social media pageRead more…
Journalists reeling as bosses announce plan to sack a quarter of workforce
MP backs NUJ campaign to save jobs in BoltonRead more…
Remember to put your clocks back this weekend?
Don’t forget to turn your clocks back this weekend! In accordance to Government edict at 02:00 on Sunday you should turn all your clocks back to 25 October 1865 to reflect the society they want to create.
Please note that in accordance with this …Read more…