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…
‘March of the Makers’ goes into reverse
By David Bailey Whatever happened to the ‘March of the Makers’ and the much heralded rebalancing the British economy? This year has so far been pretty dire for UK manufacturing. The…Read more…
Speech At The CSEU On The Trade Union Bill
Union members from across shipbuilding and engineering today (July 15th) slammed the government’s Trade Union Bill, as unjust and in favour of employers. Moving an emergency motion, Unite assistant…Read more…
UK Labour Leadership
I was at the UNISON Labour Link hustings for the UK Labour Leadership today in Manchester. With our focus on the Scottish leadership election’s earlier timetable, this was my first real opportunity…Read more…
Reflections on UNISON National Delegate Conference 2015.
It’s now been over a week since the end of UNISON National Delegate Conference (NDC) in Glasgow and I have just about recovered from the traditional post conference lergy.
This is what happens after being locked up for 4 days in what is really a…Read more…
Ambassador’s Assessment
JEREMY CORBYN meets supporters on June 20 anti-austerity march.
CRAIG Murray is a former British diplomat who fell out with the Blair government over its support to foreign dictators, became a…Read more…
John Smith COHSE Conference 1993
Orgreave: Media Conference & OTJC Statement
Following today’s (12th June) announcement by the IPCC the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC) and the national Union of Mineworkers will be hosting an open press conference at 12.00…Read more…
Global union network formed to fight back at Huhtamäki
Unions from paper products plants owned by the Finnish multi-national Huhtamäki met in Helsinki recently to establish a global trade union network. They also slammed the behaviour of the company…Read more…
What is Scottish Labour for?
As Scottish Labour regroups after the General Election, the temptation will be to focus on organisation and structure. Important though these are, the real question the party has to ask itself is -…Read more…
UK union membership ‘broadly unchanged’ – but it pays to be in a union.
The latest trade union membership figures and statistics published by the Department of Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) in its statistical bulletin shows union membership for 2014 in the UK…Read more…
Support Phil Turner NUJ FoC Rotherham Advertiser
Phil Turner NUJ Father of the Chapel for 30 years at the Rotherham Advertiser needs your support. He was made for “compulsory redundant”. Phil is a well-respected and hard-working union…Read more…
Morning Star Appoints Youngest Ever Editor
Ben Chacko has been appointed the editor of the Morning Star making him the youngest editor of the co-operatively owned socialist daily newspaper since the legendary William Rust in 1930. Ben, who…Read more…
Keith Ewing: Where Do We Go Now?
Trade unions face a crisis like no other as 5 years of Tory rule beckon. We need a new vision — and we need it now, by Keith Ewing. Shortly after the general election in 2010, I wrote in these…Read more…
June 4th : Rally For Venezuela
Co-op Votes to Keep Political Link with Labour Movement
As a Co-op shopper and Party member this is great news. I was out canvassing in Tower Hamlets yesterday afternoon for John Biggs as Labour mayor.
When I got a text from one of the “Keep It Co-op” organisers that the Co-operative Group had just voted t…Read more…
After the General Election…
The NUT is party politically independent and always has been. However, like many NUT members, I was involved in the General Election campaigns, fighting hard to avoid the outcome that we got on…Read more…
Some post-election thoughts
Well, that wasn’t pretty. As someone who has participated in elections since the age of 12, that one rates alongside 1979 and 1992 in terms of outcome, and possibly worse in terms of the campaign…Read more…
Why I am voting Scottish Labour
Of all the elections I have been involved with this has to be one of the worst. The big issues that should have been debated have been swamped by the process of coalitions, deals and the banality of…Read more…
A bit more than a ban on ‘zero hours abuse’
There was a lot in the Labour Party’s Manifesto for Work that echoes things unions have been calling for for a long time now.Read more…