HONDURANS denounce corruption.
WITH all eyes on Greece, and how far its people can defy the bankers, the IMF, the European Union’s commissioners, and those Germans who insensitively forget…Read more…
Harriet Harman – A Modest Proposal
http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.htmlHarriet Harman has reportedly claimed (without mandate or authority) that the Labour Party will not oppose the restriction of child tax credits so that they shall bring no additional benefit to households where the pa…Read more…
USW Toronto :Crown Packaging Workers Have “Tentative” Deal
The 22 month strike at Crown Packaging in Toronto looks like it could be over soon. A tentative agreement reached in the last week. 120 USW members at Crown Holdings Inc.’s Toronto plant have…Read more…
Redbridge Schools Fairness Conference
On Thursday I went to Beal High School in Clayhall to observe a conference run by Redbridge Schools on “Fairness”.
I am a member of the Redbridge Council Fairness Commission which has been set up to investigate poverty and inequality in the Borough an…Read more…
TUC updates its status on “Productivity” :
Sharing growth with workers will help boost productivity, says TUC 10 July 2015 Commenting on the publication today of the government’s productivity plan, TUC General Secretary, Frances O’Grady said:…Read more…
No hopers offer no hope…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33490959
Labour’s right-wing are taking fright at the prospect of significant support for socialist candidate, Jeremy Corbyn.
The link above reports the desperate attempt to unify supporters of the three pro-austerity candi…Read more…
Cameron playing with fire on workers’ rights
The TUC has been criticised for crying wolf over the Prime Minister’s plans to use the EU renegotiation phase of the referendum strategy to attack workers’ rights. But today’s media stories suggest we are spot on the money on both working time and temporary agency workers. The…Read more…
UNISON ask contractors to respond to our questions
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July Scotland in UNISON now online
A packed issue with conference reports on defending jobs, services and union rights; Glasgow strike; reinstate Robert O’Donnell; pay; organising; social work news; Fair Work Convention; homes for people not profit; defending libraries; giving our members confidence and much more http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/siu/index.htmlRead more…
No to Austerity! For a New Direction for Society!
131st Durham Miners Gala: — Call of the Northern Region of RCPB(ML), July 11, 2015 — The Working Class and People Must Build the Workers’ Opposition and Set their Sights on Becoming the…Read more…
Battle of Britain 75th Anniversary and “Repeat please!”
Today is the anniversary of the start of “The Battle of Britain”. A flypast of RAF Second World War and modern war planes took place over Buckingham Place. Six surviving pilots joined the Queen for the display and her fellow …Read more…
UNISON must support Jeremy Corbyn, the UNISON candidate for Labour Leader
Below is a message which I have sent to relevant members of my UNISON branch, in line with the agreed policy of the branch. I would urge every UNISON activist to encourage their branch to send a similar message (if your branch has taken a similar decision). As UNITE’s decision to nominate Jeremy…Read more…
Clock is ticking for Ofsted on FoI requests
On June 30, ATL submitted a Freedom of Information (FoI) request regarding the failure of 1,200 inspectors to pass Ofsted’s rigorous new assessment process: Dear Madam/Sir Freedom of…Read more…
Honour pay deal call
The delivery of cash to the UK’s 4,500 post offices could be hit, if a group of Post Office managers take industrial action over the management’s refusal to make an agreed one-off payment of between…Read more…
“In our unity there is strength”
Osborne’s onslaught on tax credits will disproportionately impact Northern Ireland, Unite has warned. If adopted in Northern Ireland, plans to scrap student maintenance grants would exclude a…Read more…
We are not the enemy within
Ministers should stop regarding trade unions as ‘the enemy within’ when it comes to partnership working to jump-start the UK’s dismal productivity record, Unite said today (July 10). …Read more…
Contradictory tangle
George Osborne’s emergency summer Budget was released with much fanfare on Wednesday (July 8), with the announcement of a compulsory “Living Wage” being hailed as the chancellor’s “master stroke”….Read more…
Migrant workers expose wins plaudits
The Unite communications department took home two awards at the TUC trade union communications awards on Tuesday night (July 7), including winner of the Best Feature category and a Highly Commended…Read more…
Unite Rules Conference – day four
Note:
This report is incomplete as I don’t yet have the official record of decisions. I will update it when I do.
The main excitement of the day was conference overturning the Executive Council over Gibraltar. NR/4 created an Area Activist…Read more…
Barnet UNISON Secretary Victim of Hate Crime
I pass on the following news without comment except to express full solidarity and support to John Burgess and Barnet UNISON.
As trade unions resist the attacks we…Read more…