05 June 2017
By Alan Bogg, Professor of Labour Law, the University of Oxford
Workers’ rights and wage inequality have become a key political battleground this General Election following public…Read more…
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05 June 2017
By Alan Bogg, Professor of Labour Law, the University of Oxford
Workers’ rights and wage inequality have become a key political battleground this General Election following public…Read more…
Police claim Manchester suicide bomber was a “lone wolf” after all By Robert Stevens World Socialist Website 1 June 2017 The latest claim by Greater Manchester Police that suicide bomber Salman Abedi…Read more…
At St Nicolas’ Church of England school in Taplow – part of the Prime Minister’s constituency – parents are being asked to donate up to £30 a month to cover a projected £40,000 shortfall and avoid…Read more…
It was the moment all could see that this Empress has No Clothes. The Prime Minister flapping her arms and shrilling that nothing had changed as she U-turned on her voter-poison social care plan….Read more…
With just a few days to go, UNISON looks at what the main parties have to say on the issues most important to our members
The article General election 2017: pay and the cost of living first appeared…Read more…
With just a few days to go, UNISON looks at what the main parties have to say on the issues most important to our members
The article General election 2017: Social care first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Writing this on the Monday before the election only a mug would predict the outcome. The polls are all over the place. However, given the fact that May called the election to give herself ‘a stronger mandate’, if she does not secure an increased majority she will have suffered a big…Read more…
With the election now upon us, UNISON considers its five key demands for the NHS – and how the main parties measure up in their manifestos
The article General election 2017: The NHS first appeared…Read more…
The 2 Sisters Food Group has confirmed that the Smethwick plant in the West Midlands will close on June 23 this year. The poultry processing plant employs 630 workers and 530 of them are Unite…Read more…
I am not from London originally but have lived and worked here for the past 29 years.
My company head office happens to be in London Bridge and I have been going to Borough Market off and on for many years. The fascist morons who last night mur…Read more…
Today and in the days ahead, the people of London will continue to live, work and love in this great city – and they will never be defeated by acts of violence and cowardice which seek to divide…Read more…
Morning Star DANIELLE TIPLADY is a community nurse in London. She shot to prominence when she organised the Bursary or Bust demonstration in January 2016 opposing government plans to axe the NHS…Read more…
Strikes Double In Spite Of Tory Union Busting Peter Lazenby Morning Star WORKERS are increasingly fighting back against attacks by bosses and the government as new figures revealed yesterday that the…Read more…
(sent to UNISON Labour Link members). Above from whyvotelabour.org.uk.. Check it out.
“it’s the final countdown to the General Election with polls narrowing.
UNISON is acting as the lead union supporting Ilford North CLP, Ealing, Central & A…Read more…
One of the strongest themes we’ve heard on the North West leg of our Britain Still Needs A Pay Rise tour has been what’s happening to wages in the public sector. Traditionally seen as a sector of “good jobs”, the years since the crash have seen a dramatic reversal. In…Read more…
Isn’t it amazing that when we have terror attacks like Manchester and the essential work that workers do, to clean up the mess, when such things as the floods, which occurred a few years back, there…Read more…
Opposing the Irrationality of the May Campaign with the Independent Politics of the Working Class The election campaign of Theresa May and the Conservative Party has been one where total…Read more…
Devolution has a long history. The election of metro mayor’s across the UK was just the latest milestone in the devolution journey. Successive governments have recognised that the UK is far too centralised and that to unlock the full potential of the UK’s nations and region’s Whitehall needs to…Read more…
Unite, the UK’s largest construction union has condemned a decree by outsourced housing maintenance company Mears, which bars workers from having beards as ‘penny pinching stupidity’. Members of…Read more…
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