The current crisis within the Parliamentary Labour Party is deeply regrettable and unnecessary. Last week’s vote to leave the European Union presents the entire labour movement with unprecedented…Read more…
For our kids’ sake
Child poverty skyrocketed again last year, as the latest figures published today reveal an increase of 200,000 more children living in households that are struggling to make ends meet. The…Read more…
‘Pull together’ plea to Party
Last night (June 29) union leaders issued this joint trade union statement on the Labour Party: The current crisis within the Parliamentary Labour Party is deeply regrettable and unnecessary. …Read more…
Downing Street Cat demands Corbyn resignation?
Yesterday Progress-supporting local Councillors began scraping the bottom of their own barrel by cobbling together a list of elected representatives prepared to call for the ‘decent’ Jeremy Corbyn to stand down ‘for the good of the Party.’This list wil…Read more…
NUT strike:
On July 5, members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) will walk out in what will be the union’s first national day of action since 2014. Members voted overwhelmingly in favour of action in…Read more…
Forest Gate By Election 2016: 15 days to go
Picture collage from the recent canvassing sessions in the Forest Gate North ward By election in Newham, East London. The candidate is Anam Islam, a top Labour trade unionist, anti-racist campaigner and committed socialist.
The campaig…Read more…
Leeds TUC Backs Jeremy Corbyn
At tonight’s delegate meeting (29th June 2016), Leeds TUC delegates passed the following emergency motion in support of Jeremy Corbyn
“Leeds TUC is alarmed and disgusted by the attempt, on the part…Read more…
Protect world class car industry
The UK car industry and its workforce, which supports hundreds of thousands of jobs, must be listened to, safeguarded and secured against the Brexit vote, Unite said today (June 29). Unite…Read more…
Redundancy pay result
A total of 88 workers employed by BetFred in Wigan, Greater Manchester, one of the biggest high street bookmakers, will receive a share of £469,000 after Unite challenged the company when it denied…Read more…
Academies: The Creation of a Capital-Centred School System
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan announced at the time of the recent local elections, later confirmed in the Queen’s Speech, that the planned enforced conversion of all schools to academies by…Read more…
EU Referendum: A Call to Chart a new path
Chart a New Path Map of constituencies voting to Leave or Remain in the EU The people of England, Scotland, Wales and the north of Ireland voted on June 23 to leave the European Union rather than…Read more…
Christie Commission – Five Years On
In the flurry of post-Brexit excitement it was welcome to hear the First Minister remind Parliament that it must not distract from the business of government. Indeed the Deputy First Minister started…Read more…
UNISON women join protest against pension inquality
Union members join WASPI lobby of Parliament over pension age increases
The article UNISON women join protest against pension inquality first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
‘One way ticket to disaster’
Network Rail – a public body operating UK rail networks – has begun selling off assets valued at £1.8bn in a bid to make up for a massive government funding shortfall. But a new report…Read more…
Trade Union Website League Table 2016
It’s been 12 months since I last updated the Trade Union website league table, and so I’ve complied the latest metrics below (previous results can be seen for 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012)….Read more…
Social workers need clear support to handle stress and workload
UNISON welcomes report from University of East Anglia on ’emotional intelligence and burnout’ in child and family social work
The article Social workers need clear support to handle stress and…Read more…
Johnson’s real agenda coming clearer: watch out for your rights!
Boris Johnson is at least the bookies’ favourite to become Conservative Party Leader and therefore Prime Minister, and, as the leading Conservative on the Leave side, he fulfils one key criterion for PM in post-referendum Britain (“you broke it, you bought it!“) So it’s…Read more…
Trial of Former Prison Guard Obscures Real Story of Nazi War Criminals
– Dougal MacDonald – A great hullabaloo is being made by the ruling circles and their monopoly media about the trial and conviction of a single former concentration camp guard who worked…Read more…
Solidarity with the Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine
Posted on June 20, 2016 by ukraineantifascistsolidarity Alex Kempshall, BUAFS Last Saturday, June 18th, Bristol Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity (BUAFS), held a public meeting to give an update on the…Read more…
RMT AGM: Labour traitors have ruined our moment
Morning Star “SELF-INDULGENT” Labour MPs have squandered the left’s best moment to go on the offensive, RMT general secretary Mick Cash said yesterday. He used his address to the transport union’s…Read more…