I was pleased to be able to sponsor and speak at the Greece Solidarity Campaign/Jubilee Debt Campaign rally in solidarity with Greece at Congress House last night. Here’s what I said: Greece is…Read more…
ET fees are a huge victory for bad bosses, says TUC
ACAS research suggests fees are a major deterrent for individuals taking their claims to employment tribunalsRead more…
What has commissioning meant for workers?
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Safety commitment questioned
Today, Monday July 6 marks the tragic anniversary of the Piper Alpha oil rig explosion which claimed the lives of 167 workers and devastated a community. It happened 27 years ago in 1988. The…Read more…
Greece votes for democracy
Yesterday’s referendum in Greece on the terms of the bailout offered by the European Union offered a decisive answer to those seeking to continue with the route to austerity. By a margin of 62% to…Read more…
The imbalance of Osborne’s economy
London has shot ahead of other parts of the UK in growth and jobs since 2010 according to new research by the TUC. The London economy accounts for an even greater chunk of the UK economy and jobs…Read more…
Jeremy is Unite’s choice
Unite’s executive council has yesterday (Sunday July 5) voted to back Labour’s left candidate Jeremy Corbyn for leader of the party. The decision follows a multi-union hustings held on June 30 and…Read more…
Building an economy for all
Tory guru Steve Hilton has had a revelation: low pay causes poverty. From one Steve to another, welcome to the real world. But as your party is about to unveil its first full blue-blooded Tory…Read more…
Barnet UNISON Press Release: OVER ONE MILLION PEOPLE TO BE CONTACTED ABOUT BARNET STRIKE
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Over 1 million reasons to join the strike
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Unite backs Corbyn – what about UNISON?
http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/unite-announces-corbyn-one-burnham-two-in-labour-leader-vote/
The Executive Council of our sister Union, UNITE, has shown the elementary consistency of backing, in the election for Labour Leader, the candidate who most…Read more…
One London: under the coalition, the capital’s economy moved even further from the rest of the UK
As the government’s flagship regional initiative seemingly flounders under the failings of investment in the railways and ahead of potential Budget announcements, it is worth reviewing just how far the regional reality is from the rhetoric. For over the period of the coalition, London moved even…Read more…
The Kindertransport “hero” Sir Nicholas Winton RIP
On the way back home on Saturday from the UNISON Labour Link forum in Manchester, I went through London Liverpool Street Railway station.
At the station I passed the statues of the “Kindertransport” children who were rescued from Nazi Europe and arriv…Read more…
Follow GLI’s International Summer School online
Event brings together more than 100 activists to debate the politics of the international trade union movementRead more…
The Walmart of the skies
Last week Michael O’Leary lost an important battle when a Danish labour ruled, if I understand it rightly, that workers at Copenhagen airport can take secondary action against Ryanair.
This is in response to the notoriously anti-union company’s latest…Read more…
Regional economic inequalities have increased since the recession, says TUC
TUC says the UK needs a recovery that works for the whole countryRead more…
Unite backs Corbyn
Union’s executive says Burnham is its second preferenceRead more…
Economic Theory
– Articles for Discussion, Workers’ Centre of CPC(M-L) – Terms, Expressions and Words in Political Economy The terms, expressions and words employed in political economy reflect an…Read more…
Greece: A Case Against Austerity
– K.C. Adams – How to ruin an economy that is already in trouble and needs help not abuse Stickers call for people to vote “No” en masse to austerity in the referendum July 5….Read more…
Building Resistance against Austerity:
Quarter of a Million People Declare No to Austerity An estimated 250,000 people marched through central London on June 20 to demand an end to austerity, with thousands more demonstrating in Glasgow,…Read more…