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1. A major international trade union statement on pension funds and tax avoidance has been published today. It is available on the TUAC website here. It has also been covered by the FT.
2. There is a very useful briefing for investors on hum…Read more…
www.rmt.org.uk NEWS RELEASE November 10th 2014Immediate Staff at Waterloo Station to strike over victimisation and bullying Following a massive vote for action,…Read more…
WITH all the interest shown in various anniversaries this year, one slipped past almost unnoticed last month which might have topical relevance. It was 90 years since the Daily Mail published a…Read more…
Colleagues,
Just a brief post as I am teaching at Ruskin this weekend as we have three cohorts of the BA international labour and trade union studies (ILTUS) in. What a fine bunch of trade unionists! Even though I am not feeling great, it is reviving to be here and to hear of their natural,…Read more…
Austerity economics don’t add up, vote yes to keep your union’s voice, 18 October rally report, devolution submission, campaign against NHS PFI, violence against staff doubles, retired member wins claim, Bhopal remembered, celebrate learning and much more in this issue. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/siu/index.htmlRead more…
I am privileged to be able to address you today. The work of disability activists within the CWU is essential to the future of this union. From your activity, and through your eyes, the problems…Read more…
Rick Muir is Associate Director for Public Service Reform at IPPR. The case for ‘for profit’ providers in education rests on weak empirical foundations. The international evidence on the performance…Read more…
Rail fares are due to increase on 2 January 2015, again above the rate of inflation. We already have some of the most expensive fares in Europe! Some community groups and concerned passengers are…Read more…
This has been a momentous year for Scotland. The referendum, the Commonwealth Games, the Ryder Cup – the eyes of the world have been on us like never before.
I never doubted that as a people we would…Read more…
BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS – INTERSERVE WATERLOO Referring to Decision No GWW 4th November 2014, your Southern Sub-Committee submits the following report:- “We note the…Read more…
7 November 2014
By Michael Ford QC, Old Square Chambers
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6 November 2014
By Camilla Belich.
The Leicester Employment Tribunal is due to consider the CJEU decision on commission payment during holiday this February.
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The UK’s often turbulent relationship with the European Union seems to be getting stormier by the day. With UKIP support rising to record levels, the Conservatives have been pushed into an…Read more…
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn Last Tuesday at a full Council Meeting it was voted by a majority of one to go ahead with the Libraries Strategy.
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Gabriel Heller Sahlgren is research director at the Centre for Market Reform of Education and affiliated researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm, Sweden. He’s also a…Read more…
Can you help BECTU put pressure on Picturehouses to pay a fairer wage to their dedicated staff from Exeter to Edinburgh? Sign the petition now!Read more…
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. At the November 1st demonstration in Trafalgar Square in support of besieged Kobane, it struck me that the speakers — and more broadly,…Read more…
NHS in Scotland is facing significant pressures at the same time as having to make major changes to services to meet future needs. That’s the key message from the latest Audit Scotland report on NHS…Read more…
Martin Johnson is former deputy general secretary of ATL and author of the TUC publication, Education Not for Sale. The real damage to England’s schools following the reforms of the last twenty-five…Read more…
Whoopi Goldberg:
Supporters the New York Working Families Party
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