PAUL MURPHY TD
IRISH Socialist member of parliament Paul Murphy was among four people arrested yesterday morning in connection with a demonstration against water charges, during which deputy prime…Read more…
Why not start from the people’s standpoint – that Healthcare is a Right?
How can it be said that a particular commentator, scrutinising the local NHS management is showing a complete lack of knowledge with relation to roles and responsibilities and a duty of care within…Read more…
A day with G Company 7 Rifles on Salisbury Plain
On Saturday I spent the day with 7 other Newham Councillors as the guests of G Company 7th Rifles Regiment, while they were training on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.
G Company is our local British Army reservist unit in Newham, based at Cedar barracks i…Read more…
UNISON Scotland & the General Election
Mike Kirby, Scottish Secretary: ‘During the election campaign we will strive to keep UNISON policies and objectives fore and centre of the political debate. UNISON priorities of an end to Tory austerity, fair employment and trade union rights, pay and public services… by challenging all political parties on what they will do for our people.’
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TUC Economic Quarterly Report 6
This quarterly TUC report provides an analysis of UK economic and labour market developments over recent months, and includes a spotlight feature on the composition of current economic growth. Summary There is growing evidence that the recent revival in growth is flagging. Overall, the recovery…Read more…
Staffing targets are the wrong approach for public service
Staffing targets are the wrong approach to public service reform. In the run up to the UK general election, political parties are tripping over themselves with commitments on the number of nurses,…Read more…
#Show the love… Ask First Minister to act on climate change
Love is in the air this week…love for everything that climate change threatens.
And Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) is asking us all to tell First Minister Nicola Sturgeon that we believe a new global climate deal must be agreed at United Nations talks in Paris in December this year.
In the new Show the Love campaign, members and supporters of SCCS members across Scotland, includingRead more…
A few thoughts on industrial policy, productivity … and Italy!
Sadly, most Touchstone readers won’t be able to watch this fascinating discussion between Mariana Mazzucato, author of ‘The Entrepreneurial State’, and Yoram Gutgeld, economic advisor to the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi. It took place on ‘Otto e Mezzo’, a discussion programme broadcast on…Read more…
Carers losing £130m a year to minimum wage abusing agencies
Resolution Foundation research estimates 160,000 care workers are being illegally underpaid.Read more…
Auction of care packages
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RMT Union President: Why I’m standing for the Greens in Redcar
By Rachel Wearmouth Peter Pinkney, whose union has a long history with Labour, will stand for the Greens and accuses Ed Miliband’s party of betraying the working class. Peter Pinkney, President…Read more…
Solidarity with Syriza
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Len McCluskey suspends union action against Austerity and fighting for the Alternative to ‘get Labour elected’
Some of the biggest Trades Unions have suspended programmes of action since the ‘March for the Alternative’ and ‘Britain needing a pay rise’. In particular the call by Len…Read more…
Protecting our Pensions from Tory Con Trick
UNISON Housing Association delegate, Mitsy Harman, speaking at the regional AGM last week on our motion “Protect our Pensions” (see link here for text). This is an early draft of her speech.
“Council, from April 6 this year, this Conservative led gov…Read more…
180 jobs at risk as car components firm plans Poland move, warns Unite
A consultation over plans by the West Midlands based Car Parts Industries UK to axe 180 jobs and relocate the work to Poland was branded a ‘sham’ by Britain’s largest union Unite last Wednesday. The…Read more…
London Bus Strike – Unite the Union:
TfL accused of being ‘wildly optimistic’ following solid support for London bus strike There was solid support across London for a 24 hour strike on Thursday 5 February, as up to 20,000 bus workers…Read more…
Pension funds giving up on hedge funds is just the start
One of the more inexplicable aspects of pension fund behaviour in recent years has been their tolerance for high fees, particularly in relation to alternatives. To state the obvious, high fees – especially where the manager takes a slice of your return…Read more…
US Oil Strikes Latest: Stoppages Spread To BP
The United Steelworkers (USW) who represent thousands of striking oil refinery workers have said that workers at BP Refineries will be hit by strikes today (Sunday) in the next wave of industrial…Read more…
It gets worse: Osborne’s ‘recovery’ is twice as slow as the slowest recovery on record
Looking at GDP per head, the UK economy grew by 5 per cent between 2009 and 2014. Previously, the slowest recovery on a per head basis was from 1886 to 1901, when the economy grew by 10 per cent: twice as fast. The average recovery speed over five years for previous major recessions is 13.7…Read more…