The vote on tax credits is a tremendous win for ordinary people struggling to get by on low pay – but it’s only a beginning
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The vote on tax credits is a tremendous win for ordinary people struggling to get by on low pay – but it’s only a beginning
The article Lords tax credits vote is an important first step first…Read more…
Well done to the House of Lord tonight for blocking attempts by multi-millionaire “Old Etonian” and future Baronet, Gideon “Mockney” Osborne, to take children tax credits from millions of low paid working (strivers) British families.
I saw him being i…Read more…
Today the House of Lords debated regulations to cut tax credits, scheduled to be introduced next April. They voted to delay this introduction until an independent assessment of their likely impact has been carried out. In this post I want to look at wh…Read more…
Commenting on the tax credits debate in the House of Lords today (Monday), UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis said: “Across the country nearly three million low and middle income working families…Read more…
Cuts to tax credits – which will amount to a £4.4bn raid on the country’s poorest working families – are in the spotlight again today (October 26), as peers are set to vote on motions that may stop…Read more…
Picture is from this mornings programme on the BBC “Andrew Marr” Show where I saw a confident Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, pretty much destroy Tory Education Minister, Nicky Morgan, rather desperate attempts to justify the Government’s proposals to rob £1000’s from hardworking British…Read more…
Former chancellor Nigel Lawson is the latest among a growing group of senior Tory statesmen who have come out against the government’s plans to slash tax credits next April, which would decimate…Read more…
The tax credit cuts are continuing to move their way through Parliament; last night (October 20) Labour’s motion calling for the government to rethink their damaging plans was defeated. Today…Read more…
One image from the TV coverage of George Osborne’s July Budget sticks in my mind. It hasn’t got anything to do with the Chancellor’s smirk as he announced the “National Living Wage” – it’s the cut-away shot to Iain Duncan Smith fist-pumping in apparent triumph. I was surprised – in the same speech…Read more…
The government is sticking to its guns over cuts to tax credits. To persuade the public (and their own MPs) of a plan that the electorate didn’t vote for, they’ve released figures that claim these…Read more…
The government must come clean on the numbers of working people who will be worse off as a result its cuts to tax credits next year, says UNISON. UNISON is critical of misleading claims made by…Read more…
They’ve been described as plans based on “political and class dogma, and not economic necessity” by Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey; part of an economic package that will worsen inequality, by…Read more…
First it was Conservative MPs David Davis and Steven McPartland. Then it was The Sun – long the mouthpiece of the Tory party. And now this week, former leaders of the Anglican Church –…Read more…
Multi-millionaire health secretary Jeremy Hunt has ‘kicked millions of working people, struggling to get by in the teeth’ with controversial remarks that axing working tax credits is ‘an important…Read more…
Thousands upon thousands of UNISON members – and their families – took time on Sunday to come to Manchester and march
The article Thank you to everyone who made Sunday a success first appeared on…Read more…
Commenting on remarks made by the Prime Minister over the weekend and by the Chancellor today (Monday) at the Conservative party conference in Manchester, UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis said:…Read more…
Research from UNISON reveals the scale of the impact that the government’s plans on tax credits will have
The article Government’s tax credit grab will hit 91,000 in Northern Ireland first…Read more…
A horrifying report is released today by UNISON on the impact of the Government cuts in Tax credits next April. The rise in the minimum wage will not offset these cuts.
Working families and their children who already find it a struggle to survive are about to lose as much as £60 per week. This is…Read more…
UNISON general secretary welcomes new language of opposition at TUC congress in Brighton today
The article ‘This is our time to smash the consensus’ first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
These cuts to tax credits will mean ordinary public service workers lose up to £3,000 a year and thousands more in the lifetime of this parliament
The article Help us fight these scandalously unfair…Read more…