THE FIGHT FOR THE NHS
Charlotte Munro, public service whistleblower reinstated. Nice to win sometimes.
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Unite New Zealand defeats Zero Hour contracts
Restaurant Brands – which owns the KFC, Pizza Hut, Carl’s Jr and Starbucks chains – has committed to end zero hour contracts by July this year in a new collective agreement negotiated with Unite…Read more…
Don’t let future be mean streets of my past
Lonely Planet/Mirrorpix It was in Bradford that I wounded my spirit in the Great Depression of almost 80 years ago. For me it is a city that contains both wonder and unimaginable…Read more…
Oil deal: jobs alert
As the announcement of a ‘mega merger’ between Royal Dutch Shell and exploration firm BG came yesterday (April 8), Unite has warned against crude cost cutting and job cuts. The merger might be…Read more…
Scottish airport strike continues despite boss’s press plea
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eNEWS 9 April Russell Brand & Strike Update
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Barnet Council workers vote for more strike action
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Everyone should pay their fair share of taxes
Totally and utterly agree. If you want to live in this country and enjoy its rule of law, relative low crime and social cohesion then you should at least pay the same marginal rate of taxation as your cleaner.
If you don’t want to pay this then can we…Read more…
Easter marches draw thousands around Germany:
‘Fascism, never again – war, never again’ People across Germany have taken to the streets, usually of major cities, over the Easter weekend to campaign for world peace. The…Read more…
Exports revolution
A beefed up role for a trade minister with a seat in the cabinet to coordinate and boost UK exports – a central plank of a new report on delivering an export-led recovery – has been welcomed by Unite. Unite echoes the call for a revolution in export culture to boost manufacturing outlined in […]
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‘Totemic’ tax move
As the general election nears, campaign promises are a dime a dozen. Elections are usually a flurry of predictably vague pledges, with politicians revealing just enough of one policy or another but conveniently omitting the fine print. This time round, however, is decidedly different. Labour has hit out with bold, clear policies, and their […]
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87% of UNISON members working for Barnet “easyCouncil” vote YES to strike action.
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NHS squeezing laid bare by top docs
A group of the nation’s senior doctors have come together to deliver a damning indictment of the coalition’s record on the NHS. In a letter published in today’s Guardian, the health professionals conclude that this administration’s record is “characterised by broken promises, reductions in necessary funding and destructive legislation, which leaves health services […]
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How Greek austerity has stoked inequality
A new study, Greece: solidarity and adjustment in times of crisis, shows that the impact of the austerity and structural adjustment policies applied in Greece between 2008 and 2013, since 2010 through loan conditions imposed by the Troika (IMF-European Commission-ECB) have been overwhelmingly borne…Read more…
Surprise, surprise – we don’t spend so much when there’s a living standards crisis
Really, this is one of those “one chart says it all” stories: Here at the TUC we started worrying about the living standards crisis years ago – and there’s a long way to go before we can say it’s over. But the crisis isn’t just about wages, pensions and other…Read more…
Thousands of lives will be lost in the Mediterranean unless EU governments take urgent action, say shipowners and seafarer unions
European and global operators of merchant ships have joined forces with seafarers’ unions to urge EU Member States to take immediate collective action to address the growing humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean Sea.Read more…
Massive body blow
As AKD Engineering in Suffolk announced that it will shutter its doors yesterday (April 7) after 60 years in operation, more than 100 skilled jobs will be lost, delivering a “massive body blow” to the workforce and local economy. After several years of substantial losses, the oil and gas engineering firm has been particularly hard […]
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Mansions debunked
The question of houses worth more than £2 million is currently in the news. To read some of the more florid press coverage you might think that we are all in danger of finding that our homes have accidently become mansions – this is simply nonsense of course. To get a quick shot of…Read more…
A bit more than a ban on ‘zero hours abuse’
There was a lot in the Labour Party’s Manifesto for Work that echoes things unions have been calling for for a long time now.Read more…
Labour market deregulation: When the facts change…
The famous remark, commonly attributed to Keynes, that “when the facts change, I change my mind…” could be about to face a stern test. The IMF is about to publish the findings of research by staff members that finds no evidence that labour market deregulation promotes growth. This…Read more…