With Spain becoming the latest country to extend its pay protection scheme “for as long as it takes” – following Germany, the Netherlands and France – the UK government continues to look on aimlessly…Read more…
Don’t miss out on Battle of Stockton event
Unite’s Unity over Division campaign have supported this year’s event by recording a zoom conversation with some of our young members from North East, Yorkshire and Humberside region. The recording…Read more…
Act now call as Belarus union leaders arrested and beaten
Trade unions throughout Europe are working directly with their international and European Union federations to bring pressure on the EU to force tough sanctions against Belarusian President Alexander…Read more…
The power of unity
On September 10, 1933, Mosley’s notorious Blackshirts marched into Stockton-on-Tees with the specific aim of holding a rally to recruit and garner support. Mosley targeted areas where poverty was…Read more…
When Boris met Tony…
The gaffe prone former Aussie PM, famous for his cringe-worthy comments (read here) will be ‘joint president’ together with International Trade Secretary Liz Truss – undoubtedly a move designed to…Read more…
‘They shall not pass’
Or as Nelson Mandela put it “No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People are taught to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they…Read more…
Time to be ‘more German’?
In the UK, the Chancellor is refusing to extend the furlough scheme despite the prospect of mass job losses. But in Germany, the ‘Kurzarbeit’ social insurance scheme ensures employers reduce their…Read more…
The ‘fight of our lives’
With the tsunami of job losses we predicted when Rishi Sunak announced, the phasing-out of the furlough scheme now coming to pass, the government’s reversion to type with a reliance on a failed “free…Read more…
A sightseer in Beirut
In the morning the vast inspiring
Al Amin Mosque.
Heads covered feet bare.
Under the chandeliers
our whispered voices
echoes of centuries.
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‘Make your voice heard in the post-pandemic world’
We are living through unprecedented and dramatic times which has seen Covid-19 claim the lives of tens of thousands of our fellow citizens, and more than 500 NHS and social care colleagues. The…Read more…
How the govt fails to take women seriously
A joint statement earlier this week (August 5) by the TUC, Centenary Action Group, the Fawcett Society, Women’s Aid and trade unions representing parliamentary staff (Unite, Prospect, PCS and FDA)…Read more…
‘Workers are holding their breath’
Picking up last weekend’s press, I almost choked on my morning tea when I read that ‘Red Wall Tories’ were working to save UK aerospace. This was news to me – albeit welcome if true – and no doubt a…Read more…
Contagion
At our peril we’d ignored the periphery
Discovered we aren’t in charge of our destiny.
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A red-button blockbuster
The author has taken the events of 1913-17 described in his earlier Radical Aristocrats: London Busworkers from the 1880s to the 1980s (Lawrence and Wishart, 1985) and woven into them the fictional…Read more…
‘Fighting back against tyranny’
Covid-19 has put food and agriculture workers at the heart of a national and international fight and highlighted all that’s wrong with the food system — dysfunctional, fragile, exploitative, wholly…Read more…
Here’s why you should fix the apprenticeship levy, Chancellor
Vast sums of cash are standing idle in the Treasury, with employers seeing it as a tax, unable to access it to fund recognised apprenticeships for either their workforces or those of their supply…Read more…
‘We must demand better’
Chancellor’s £10 a head ‘meal deal’, VAT cut and £1,000 bonus is a gift to hospitality bosses. Now they need to stop the sackings and invest in staff to address the sector’s long term future. The…Read more…
‘Instead of a budget we have a slogan’
Before the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, delivered his statement there was as usual Prime Minister Question Time with Boris Johnson delivering his, as usual, non-answers. Keir Starmer asked him to…Read more…
‘Was that it’?
Our ‘Build Back Better’ club acquired an application from a new aspiring member this week: welcome, Prime Minister. I hope that you will take some time to familiarise yourself with the rules of the…Read more…
‘PM, do not abandon working people now in their hour of need’
There’s rising panic being felt in homes across the country right now. The last 24 hours have seen a jobs bloodbath with over 10,000 lost.
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