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Colleagues,
Just a quick post as I am tied up preparing for teaching this weekend, and I want to follow the news of the early outcomes of today’s general election in the UK.
So much hangs in the balance for the British labour movement of the election…Read more…
You can now watch on the TUC’s website the new documentary UDITA (ARISE) made by Rainbow Collective about the struggles that women trade unionists in the National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF)…Read more…
In a column in today’s Financial Times (‘What the next chancellor does not yet know’), Chris Giles sets the economic tone for the next Parliament in part on the basis of yet unknown productivity outcomes. For Giles, as for many others, productivity is an inherent quality or defect of the economy…Read more…
The polls are open until 10 o’clock tonight – so if you’ve not already voted, please get down there and have your sayRead more…
All Stoke-On-Trent City Council staff are invited to a free lunch event to be held 12 noon – 1pm in the Windsor Room, Stoke Town Hall on Wednesday 13 May 2015. This event is open to both members and non members … Continue reading →Read more…
Swingometers. Margins of error. Opinion Polls. Exit polls. Aren’t you sick them? If not yet, then you will be. What I learned from opinion polls is don’t rely on them. Work until you…Read more…
Vote for fairer taxes
such as a Bankers tax, £2 million Mansion tax & a 50p tax rate for the rich,
Vote to abolish
the Bedroom tax and the Health & Social Care Act (NHS privatisation),
Vote to increase
the number of nurses and faster treatment for cancer and access to your GPs
Vote…Read more…
I am not of course superstitious in the slightest (touch wood) but the during the final pre election Ilford North doorstep tonight, our team of mostly Westhammers, got a little wet and blown around by the wind but we also saw some stunning lucky Rainbo…Read more…
The polling stations open at 7am tomorrow and we’ll all get the chance to actually vote after what seems like one of the longest election campaigns in living memoryRead more…
The UK could very well join the US in being the only developed countries in the world that don’t offer statutory maternity pay, if the Tories emerge victorious on May 8. Work and pensions…Read more…
The UK has failed to make the top 10 for safest country to give birth in for the third year in a row, the annual State Of The World’s Mothers report has found. According to the study by…Read more…
Which prominent members of the coalition could be getting the chop on Thursday? Top of those at risk are Tory Esther McVey, minister for welfare sanctions. But possibly in line for a Portillo…Read more…
The election campaign is coming to an end, and it’s time to mark your ballot. We’ve put together ten big issues which can be changed by the next government, and should give you reason to get out and vote. But first the practicalities… If you’ve registered to vote (yes, if…Read more…
How many hours should parents be expected to work in order not to be poor? New research published last week by Child Poverty Action Group explores this tricky question. Round the clock: In work poverty and the ‘hours question’ recognises from the outset that there are multiple factors which shape…Read more…
Unquestionably the focus this Thursday will be on the knife-edge general election long predicted by pollsters. However it’s worth remembering that around England a series of local elections…Read more…
They’ve hurt us – plain and simple. Since the ConDem Coalition came in they’ve tried to sell off the NHS while running it into the ground. Legal aid has been slashed, university tuition fees…Read more…
This is my contribution to an NAPF publication on the need for an Independent Pensions Commission. I argue that this is not “taking the politics out of pensions” – an absurdly impossible task – but rather a chance to bring social partnership to another field of policy…Read more…
The Austerity Audit, published today by UNISON details the damage caused by the unprecedented squeeze on funding that has had such a dramatic impact on local council services in England and the people that provide them. The government has already cut the funding to local councils by £12.5bn or 37%…Read more…
Tomorrow is election day here in Britain, and that headline is unlikely to grace the front page of any of our newspapers on the morning after. But it’s a real headline and it describes what…Read more…
And here’s another thing… Our new weekly blog by ATL general secretary Mary Bousted. Education policy has not been a prominent feature of the election campaign. Political parties have vied for the…Read more…