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Check out Tom P post “Fidelity, the Tory-friendly fund manager”
Just think about it. The multi millionaire owners of Fidelity uses profits from managing Council pension funds to promote the Tories – who want to sack and/or destroy the pay and co…Read more…
The OECD today accomplished a miracle, hailing the long-term plan, making departures from the plan seem natural, all with the illusion of delivery. “What a difference effective economic policies can make”, Mr Gurria (the secretary-general) gushed at the press conference, making his own…Read more…
Joining together to win a better deal for members is the cornerstone of a trade union’s work. For Fair Pay Fortnight, we’ve rounded up some recent stories of how unions are making a real…Read more…
There’s no doubt over the CWU’s commitment to the return of a majority Labour Government. This is the policy of the union’s Annual Conference. It is the policy that we have been working…Read more…
The government has named a further 70 employees caught underpaying the minimum wage*. This is welcome news, which brings the total named in the past year up to 162. However, they should now go on and name the other 490 employers caught cheating last year. In addition, they should take some of the…Read more…
During Fair Pay Fortnight, the TUC has been sending out a clear message about Britain’s shrinking pay packet, but how do things compare with the rest of Europe? Well according to the latest analysis by the Labour Research Department (LRD), the UK is close to the bottom of the pile. LRD’s Workplace…Read more…
By David Stern BBC News, Kiev Damage in Vihlehirsk, near Debaltseve, testifies to the intensity of the fighting The question is not whether the fall of the strategically important road and rail hub…Read more…
This motion was passed at my branch AGM which took place in City Hall last week. It will be one of our motions submitted to our UNISON National Conference in June (the other on “Union Busting”).
If people think a “Living Wage” makes sense, then what a…Read more…
One of the more interesting books I read in the past couple of years is the Future of Private Enterprise by George Goyder. It’s interesting for various reasons. For one, it’s a reminder that when it was published (1954) mainstream views about the natur…Read more…
‘In Conversation’ with Frances O’Grady at SPERI Frances O’Grady talks about inequality at Sheffield UNI SPERI. Discussing her time in Davos this year, she makes the case that “you cannot redistribute wealth unless you are prepared to redistribute power”. Whether…Read more…
Paying a privatised English water company to provide Scottish public water to Scotland’s public services has to be the ultimate in market madness.
An article in yesterday’s Sunday Times reports that…Read more…
This evening Parliament will debate an amendment to the Serious Crime Bill which represents a significant and retrograde step in UK legislation on abortion. The amendment concerns abortions on the grounds of foetal sex – a practice which is commonplace in many countries but for which there is no…Read more…
Five million workers are earning less than the living wageRead more…
It is not often that someone from the TUC is invited to write a foreword for a pamphlet published by the Centre for Policy Studies – a think-tank whose website is headed by an approving quotation from Margaret Thatcher. But then it is something of a surprise – and to their credit…Read more…
One in five jobs pay less than the living wage. But you won’t find them evenly distributed across the UK. In some constituencies, over half of full-time workers get less than living wages. We’ve mapped almost every constituency in England, Wales, and Scotland below: Source: House of…Read more…
Last week the campaign of unions, residents and activists in and around Southampton to put pressure on Channel 4 to cancel a controversial six part series of a show titled ‘Immigration Street’,…Read more…
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UNISON was the UK’s top political donor in the fourth quarter of 2014! Electoral Commission data published last week confirms that a total of £1,384,289 was donated to the Labour Party from our…Read more…
We are being taken for mugs. Workers and the share owners of companies (such as pension and insurance policy holders) alike are being ripped off. The father of modern day economics, Adam Smith, (not someone I usually cite and whose book “Wealth of Nati…Read more…
“FREEDOM OF SPEECH” has been much talked about lately, in the wake of the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ killings and with regard to such slightly less serious matters as the enthusiasm with which some groups of…Read more…