The Chancellor wants to find more ways to cut public services
The article George Osborne wants to know how to ‘get more for less’ first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Fast Food Workers In L.A. & N.Y.C Win Pay Deals
US Fast Food workers have won two important victories in their fight for better wages as both Los Angeles County and New York State voted to raise minimum wages says the Global union, the…Read more…
Crude caps on public servants’ redundancy payments are not value for money
Despite a settlement on redundancy terms agreed with the last Minister for the Cabinet Office, Matt Hancock’s Cabinet colleague, Francis Maude, which he described at the time as “for the longer term” the government seems intent to rush yet another change less than five years after the…Read more…
Branch Labour Link News: Leadership; London GLA & National Committee elections
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Still easily the slowest recovery of GDP per head on record
In the coverage of the GDP figures last week, some attention was paid to the ONS observation that on a per head basis GDP in 2015 Q2 is likely to be back to the pre-crisis level. This may be all well and good, but is hardly a measure of economic performance. The relevant measure is…
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Howard Dawber & the spirit of the East End
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Post-referendum, but not post-political!
Here is my piece in the Morning Star on the things I am looking forward to in this year’s Edinburgh Festivals. This year the Star will have four of us providing reviews of various events, and my…Read more…
Tower Hamlets Council motion regarding One Housing Group
This motion was passed by Tower Hamlets Council at its last meeting. Inside Housing reports that One Housing is in urgent talks to try and stop it being suspended as a perferred housing provider.
Urgent Motion regarding One Housing Group
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Austerity is Taking us in the Wrong Direction in Climate Change Fight:
posted by ruby utting July 09, 2015 Why should climate campaigners be involved in the battle against austerity? We are as likely as anyone else to be moved by the plight of disabled people whose…Read more…
Cuban vaccine against cancer:
Malaysian firm to market Cuban vaccine against cancer Since 2008, Malaysian biotech firm Bioven has been undertaking the clinical development of the Cuban vaccine in Europe and parts of Asia and…Read more…
Striking French ferry workers block port route with huge fire:
My Ferry Link workers burn tyres across key motorway to port, causing gridlock. One of the My Ferry Link workers participating in Thursday’s strike in Calais pledges more action if their terms are…Read more…
No to the Government’s Trade Union Bill!:
Volume 45 Number 22, August 1, 2015 ARCHIVE HOME JBCENTRE SUBSCRIBE All Must Take a Stand in Defence of the Right to Organise and the Rights of All! Workers’ Weekly Internet Edition: Article…Read more…
London Loop Walk: Section 4 “West Wickham Common to Hamsey Green” (& a tragic West Ham connection)
Last Saturday I resumed my plan to walk around London along the loop walks after a gap since May. Saturday was better than Sunday since railway and bus links, there and back, are much better. I used the Transport for London (tfl) guide since I couldn’t…Read more…
Nationalisation:
Nationalisation is returning to the political agenda these days. To talk about whether a nationalisation is “good or bad” is neither here nor there. So it it is ridiculous for anyone to…Read more…
The implications of UNISON’s support for Jeremy Corbyn for the General Secretary election
Socialist comrades have expressed as much shock as pleasure at the news that UNISON gave our supporting nomination in the Labour leadership contest to Jeremy Corbyn. (Even though some reported this without comment…)
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A windfall for Fat Cats – Labour must oppose Corporation Tax Cuts in Finance Bill 2015/16
In the immediate aftermath of the Parliamentary Labour Party’s failure to oppose the Welfare Bill, its MPs with the sole exception of Dennis Skinner abstained on an amendment to decline a second…Read more…
Showing LOBO salesmen the door
Another council insider, David Green, adds more on the website Room 151 to the sorry tale of the LOBO debacle after watching the recent Parliamentary Select Committee investigation.
He recalls as a former local authority treasury management officer, …Read more…
Not all Angels, but Not Just Victims Either.
MATCHGIRLS,1888 strike lit way for new trade unionism.
CABLE Street, in the East End of London, entered the pages of history on October 4,1936, when police attempting to force a way through for…Read more…
No support for abolishing the Child Poverty Act
The government can’t be accused of pussy-footing about. In this Parliament we’ve already had the most radical Budget for 20 years, an attack on trade unions that out-Tebbits Norman Tebbit and cuts to tax credits that will force thousands of low-paid workers and their children into…Read more…
Act to Renew Democracy:
Corporations, Rich individuals, finance capitalists and employers’ organisations should be banned from making political contributions to political parties. We need to reform the electoral…Read more…