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Apologies to those readers who noticed I had taken the blog offline for a couple of days.
I am trying to springclean the blog, which I hope to make a better and more effective vehicle with which to organise, comment, offend and outrage (as appropriate…Read more…
It’s often said, ‘all politicians are the same’, well in this UK General Election it simply isn’t true, at least for public services and those who deliver them.
Today is the pre-election Scottish…Read more…
A new book, ‘Blacklisted: the secret war between big business and trade union activists’, delivers a searing indictment of the collusion between the state and the construction industry that saw…Read more…
Thanks for the opportunity to address you. The old wisdom in the labour movement used to be that women would be expelled from work during recessions. We now know this to be untrue. Women’s…Read more…
TUC’s Women’s Equality Officer Scarlet Harris says IWD should be about seeking radical and progressive changes towards achieving gender equalityRead more…
China’s Premier Li Keqiang delivered his annual report on the work of the government this Thursday at the National People’s Congress. Although workers often deem this kind of high-level policy addresses as empty and meaningless, it might still be useful to take a brief look at what the government achieved last year and what it is planning to do to improve workers’ living condition this year:Read more…
Emma Reynolds MP has agreed to be our key note speaker at our Branch Labour Link AGM on Tuesday 17 March 2015. All Labour Link members welcome. Read more…
Union calls on company to prevent strike by entering meaningful negotiationsRead more…
Funny, isn’t it, how politics is so influential in our day to day lives. Everything from the amount we can expect as a minimum wage to whether we go to war, the decisions made in Parliament…Read more…
Friday 6 March 2015
UNISON welcomes interim report from the Scottish Government’s Taskforce for Sustainability and Seven Day Services. This taskforce is considering how we provide round the clock care for patients who need it the most, with a genuinely seven day service for acutely ill patients.
The taskforce met for the first time in April 2014 and this interim report (released today) providesRead more…
Steve Tombs
David Whyte
6 March 2015
By Professor Steve Tombs, Open University and Professor David Whyte, Liverpool University
Steve Tombs and David Whyte analyse Richard Baker MSP’s new draft…Read more…
Unite’s members working for Parcelforce overwhelmingly rejected a pay offer that management went ahead with, prompting the union today (March 6) to warn the courier company that it risks inciting industrial action. The bosses of Parcelforce, a subsidiary of the Royal Mail, implemented a paltry 2.8 per cent pay rise backdated to July 2014, […]
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Au pairs and domestic workers launch new Labour of Love campaign in DublinRead more…
The story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs – six farm workers imprisoned and transported to Australia for their attempt to prevent falls in their wages by forming a “friendly society” in 1834 – is the story of trade unionism’s birth in this country. The six men who ignited a movement are remembered in books and […]
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South African local authority union IMATU praises the fire fighters who battled tirelessly to put out fires in Cape Town.Read more…
The construction of Britain’s first nuclear power plant in a generation may see delays as it faces continued legal challenges from European critics, including the Austrian government and a co-operative of energy suppliers in Germany. The construction of the Hinkley Point C plant – which will be a boon for the local and wider […]
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Unite, along with the Mirror, Hope not hate, and Operation Black Vote have embarked on a bus tour across the UK to encourage some of the 7m people who are eligible to vote but are not registered to sign up and get on the register for the election on May 7. Below is short […]
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Housing has become a major debate issue in the run-up to the General Election. What is being discussed is, “What kind of house-building programme do we need”? Housing is acknowledged as a key source…Read more…
Kurdish partisans have pushed back ISIS fighters on the Western front of Kobane.Read more…
It says much for the resilience of the sort of consensual approach facilitated by the Pensions Commission of a decade ago that even before the government’s rash and irresponsible pensions freedom reforms have been implemented, opinion is coalescing around the best ways to ameliorate their likely…Read more…