More than 60 Hackney traffic wardens will be striking for 24 hours starting today (September 22) in a victimisation and pay dispute, which will mean the number of parking tickets issued in the…Read more…
Solidarity cinema
The 4th annual London Labour Film Festival kicks off today (September 22) at the Art House Cinema in Crouch End and will feature a range of films that the festival’s organisers bill as an “intimate…Read more…
Liveblog: New Scientist Live, London
11:30 Robert Matthews, What are the chances? Coming soon … 11:25 Darren Naish: What dinosaurs really looked like. This was the first lecture I attended and I loved it. Naish started by…Read more…
Critical and Liberating Dialogue: ISS 2016
Dear Colleagues,
In a post on 6th July I reported on the outcomes of a splendid few days spent with many fine trade unionists from around the world at the annual Global Labour Institute Summer School. As I mentioned in that article the summer school is pitched in an explicitly political…Read more…
Newham Triathlon 18 September 2016
Picture from Sunday, when fellow Newham Councillor, Terry Paul and myself completed a self organised Triathlon (using google maps) starting and ending in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London.
This was not a race and ther…Read more…
Digital activity at the UNISON Centre
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Work with the Board
Less than a year ago, the Scottish government did the right thing and decided to retain its Agricultural Wages Board (SAWB) which sets minimum wages and terms and conditions for farm workers. …Read more…
Today’s economic data strengthens the case for a fiscal boost in the Autumn Statement
Economic commentators have been kept busy today by a welter of publications. The ONS published their brief assessment of the post Brexit economy; summary – the UK economy appears to have weathered the shock of the decision to leave, but it’s too early to tell the long term impacts. The Bank of…Read more…
Ten Good Reasons to Joint Unite @ Fujitsu
There’s a new leaflet out that members will be distributing "one per desk" at sites across Fujitsu. It sets out…Read more…
A ‘bootiful’ move?
Owner of the 2 Sisters Food group, Ranjit Boparan – also known as the “Chicken King” – has taken over turkey firm Bernard Matthews, a move which will save 2,000 jobs. Under a sale known as a…Read more…
Trade deals still on the Brussels agenda – we say no!
Despite the Prime Minister’s mantra that “Brexit means Brexit”, the UK is still engaged in negotiating so-called trade deals as part of the EU, so yesterday, the TUC sent a small…Read more…
Sports Direct shifts again
Just a quick update, the process of reform at Sports Direct has obviously just started, but some welcome news today. The company has committed to a fully independent review of the business, including employment practices. Whilst it had previo…Read more…
Victory for decency at work – Sports Direct will hold an independant review into its employment practices.
In what is also a victory for effective pension stewardship, “workhouse employer” Sports Direct agreed to hold an independent review into its awful working practices and governance.
See TUC press release below
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The Future of Working Class Education: 26/11/16 @ Ruskin College, Oxford
Scotland and Brexit
If there is one post-Brexit growth area, it is conferences on how to deal with it! The Centre on Constitutional Change at least does it better than most, and they gathered together a good range of…Read more…
End zero hours abuse
Cleaners, porters and workers serving food at Barts Health NHS Trust will stage a protest tomorrow (September 21) at the Trust’s annual public meeting to demand an end to the abuse of zero hours…Read more…
Oppositions cannot win General Elections in the UK – so can we focus on what the Labour Party can do for working people now please?
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‘Shameful situation’
In damning new findings from the TUC published yesterday (September 19), nearly half of health and safety reps say their workplace has not once been inspected by the Health and Safety Executive…Read more…
The Tolpuddle Tree
20 September 2016
By Martin Smith, GMB National Organiser
The labour market faces massive changes in the next ten years – laying down a challenge to the trade union and labour movement to adapt to…Read more…
‘No cost limit on justice’
Just last week a full public inquiry into violent policing of striking miners at Orgreave in 1984 looked to be just on the horizon – unconfirmed reports said that home secretary Amber Rudd had given…Read more…