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Clause 26 of the Enterprise Bill, which imposes the “public sector exit payment cap” has emerged largely unscathed from the Bill’s Committee stage in the House of Lords.
Government Ministers b…Read more…
UK steel: ‘significantly worsened’
The competitiveness of the UK steel industry is being destroyed by weak industrial demand, the strength of the pound, Chinese steel dumping and high business costs, Tata Steel Europe’s chief…Read more…
What future for steel workers?
In a few weeks’ time, hundreds of men and women could be added to the unemployment figures just in time for Christmas. The workers at Tata’s steel plants and Caparo Industries will join the…Read more…
‘Don’t hide behind EU’
UK steel workers are today (November 9) travelling to Brussels to urge business secretary Sajid Javid and his European counterparts to take urgent action to stop the dumping of cheap Chinese steel….Read more…
Today is a crucial day in the calendar – today is equal pay day
Today is the point at which the average woman working full-time starts working for free
The article Today is a crucial day in the calendar – today is equal pay day first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Shrink the gender pay gap: Join a union #PayGapPledge
Today is Equal Pay Day, the day that the average woman stops earning compared to the average man because of the gender pay gap. To mark the day, the TUC has publicised figures highlighting what a…Read more…
Top earners’ gender pay gap hits 55%
TUC calls for fair labour marketRead more…
EDF workers urged to accept new pensions deal negotiated by union
GMB says most members – especially women – will better offRead more…
As the nation remembers, war grave staff have their pensions cut
PCS says it will not accept £6k cuts imposed on membersRead more…
Driving us mad – two-hour commutes rocket by 72%
TUC calls for bosses to introduce more flexi- and home-workingRead more…
UNISON in partnership with NHS to boost blood and organ donation
UNISON today (Monday) became the first union to partner with the NHS to promote awareness of blood and organ donation. The aim is to increase the numbers registering to become donors from UNISON’s…Read more…
Rye Remembrance Sunday 2015
This Remembrance Sunday I was in the ancient town and port of Rye in East Sussex. Picture is from the service this morning outside the. 12th Century, St Mary’s Church.
I watched beforehand the procession into the Church led by the Gold Mace bearer, th…Read more…
Autumn Statement 2015:
When is the Autumn Statement? Chancellor George Osborne will announce the Autumn Statement on November 25Read more…
Tata Steel warns suppliers over prices
BBC Tata Steel has warned suppliers that if they don’t slash prices by 30% then they risk losing Tata’s business. The company’s Long Products division, which supplies steel beams,…Read more…
Liam Byrne’s speech: a bit wrong, a bit sketchy, a bit interesting
Via Chris Dillow, I picked up this speech by Liam Byrne. It’s interesting to read someone who obviously disagrees with Jeremy Corbyn try and come to terms with the new centre of gravity in Labour. It’s worth noting, too, he uses the term “neo-liberalis…Read more…
Russian Revolution Birthday
Today is the 98th anniversary of the Russian (also known confusingly as the October or Bolshevik) Revolution. The 7th November is also the birthday of my unlikely Scorpio twin 🙂Read more…
Inhuman treatment of society’s vulnerable echoes Nazi Germany
Nazis told Germans the state could help them more if it wasn’t for the “defectives” they had to look after Fiona Robertson: Inhuman treatment of society’s vulnerable echoes…Read more…
Workers Uniting Opposes Market Economy Status For China
Workers Uniting, the global union between the United Steelworkers (USW) and Unite the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, has announced its strong opposition to any move by the European Union (EU) to…Read more…
The Nature of the State – Mirage of Elections
The Nature of the State
American United CP – 12 June 1920
In every historical epoque the existing government – the State – has been the organ of coercion used by the ruling class to keep the…Read more…
Rail Rank & File – A Short History 1900-1917
Railway workers notes
L. Ever Before the 20th century railwaymen were considered to be the most submissive section of the wage workers.While miners and engineers had strikes the railroad…Read more…