JEREMIAH DUGGAN. Unlikely ‘suicide’. Normally cheerful student ‘phoned home in terror before meeting his death at Wiesbaden.
A LONDON family’s long search for truth and justice for the…Read more…
Red Line Voting
“I’m writing to invite you to play a part in bringing into being, on 24th June, a new asset-owner approach to engagement and voting. It will open the way to restoring asset owner control over engagement and voting policies relating to investments held in pooled funds.
The Association of…Read more…
ILO issues global inequality warning
The warnings and predictions just keep on coming. Following the World Bank statement earlier this year that the rise in Global Inequality is partly due to the decline of trade unions, the…Read more…
Collective Bargaining, What’s It Good For?
If you really want to tackle low pay and inequality in this country then find out how by watching this video. Read more…
Hammer blow for workers
The proposed closure of the coal-fired power station at Ferrybridge in West Yorkshire is ‘a hammer blow for the workforce’, Unite said today (Wednesday 20 May). Unite said that that there were 172…Read more…
PCS, UNISON and the complaint to the TUC
An interested reader has asked that I elaborate upon an aside in a blog post earlier today.
Our sisters and brothers in the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) are meeting in Brighton for their Annual Delegate Conference.Their National Executive has put a motion (A98) before their…Read more…
Will VISA statement prove costly for Sepp Blatter’s FIFA?
The World Cup’s major sponsors will be paying huge amounts to be associated with the tournament, and the unfolding human rights scandal has the potential to be sponsorship kryptonite.
The post Will VISA statement prove costly for Sepp Blatter’s FIFA? appeared first on ToUChstone blog.Read more…
Reclaim the day
Waiters, the UK’s worst paid workers, will call on Pizza Express to stop pocketing an estimated £am that should go to poorly paid staff, at a protest in central London tomorrow (May 21). The…Read more…
Turkish Car Industry Hit By Stoppages
A wave of stoppages across the Turkish car industry is taking place as workers demand better pay and conditions – as well as demanding to join a union of their choice and elect their own union…Read more…
Down below zero
Deflation, slow growth, pay in the doldrums, household debt on the rise, productivity stagnant. Can we survive more austerity? So prices in general have gone from not rising at all – zero…Read more…
The deflation debate and austerity – how policymakers may be severely misjudging capacity
There is a sense in the discussion surrounding the latest inflation figures that those who are less-than-sanguine about the threat of deflation are somehow ignorant or even reckless. Here’s Robert Peston yesterday: However many of those who define themselves as “serious economists”…Read more…
‘Totally unacceptable’
Unite is set to ballot its 6,000 members at Tata Steel UK for industrial action over its proposal to close the British Steel pension scheme (BSPS). Unite’s ballot for strike action and…Read more…
Lawyers consider further action against unjust legal aid cuts
Lawyers fear that further cuts to criminal legal aid under the new Conservative government will lead to a dramatic decline in the quality of legal representation as well as to miscarriages of justice. The Guardian reported last week that the Criminal B…Read more…
A Labour Party view of its General Election Failure given by the Morning Star:
DID PLAID, SNP AND GREENS’ VOTE SHARE COST LABOUR A VICTORY? May 2015 Wednesday 20th posted by Morning Star in Features JACK KIFFIN crunches the numbers and finds the range of alternative left…Read more…
Barnet UNISON – leading the way and needing your help
http://www.barnetunison.me.uk/?q=node/1549
The final speaker at this morning’s (inquorate) meeting of the Regional Council was John Burgess, Branch Secretary of Barnet UNISON.Barnet are in the front line of resisting privatisation – and are demonstrating how such resistance can sustain trade union…Read more…
Community HEART – make regular donations
http://www.community-heart.org.uk/
Dennis Goldberg, President of Community HEART, gave an encouraging and inspiring address to the (regrettably inquorate) meeting of the UNISON Greater London Regional this morning.
The Region is going to consider regular donations – and so should our…Read more…
Wake up UNISON Greater London!
This morning, at a meeting of UNISON’s Greater London Regional Council, I have listened to our Regional Secretary give a considered presentation about how UNISON should respond to the result of the General Election.
Although this presentation – in common with the contributions made this week by…Read more…
Mark Serwotka: we must unite like never before
http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/pcs_comment/pcs_comment.cfm/mark-serwotka-we-must-unite-like-never-before
It’s apt that PCS – the largest of the civil service trade unions – which was in the front line of the assault on trade union organising …Read more…
Do you want to help pick the next Labour Leader (and Mayor of London Candidate)? Sign up as an Affiliated Supporter
“To UNISON Members,
Make sure you have your say in selecting Labour’s new leader and the Labour candidate for London Mayor.
Sign up now as an Affiliated Supporter of the Labour Party.
Any UNISON member who supports Labour’s aims and values is enti…Read more…
Post Election: Workers’ Weekly: Carry Forward the Struggle against Cameron!
Carry Forward the Struggle against Cameron! No to the Austerity Agenda! Defend the Rights of All! General disbelief followed the result of the General Election that the Conservative Party had won an…Read more…