Despite long being targeted by the Tories for votes, older people were today (May 18) arguably given the worst deal as prime minister Theresa May launched the party’s manifesto. The triple…Read more…
‘Leopards don’t change their spots’
In a cynical move to falsely rebrand itself as the party of working people, the Tories today (May 15) announced a raft of policies offering greater employment rights and protections. …Read more…
Alan B’Stard outlines the Tory plans for the NHS. “in the good old days… you were poor… you got ill…. and you died!”
Lest we forget. Read more…
‘Damaging’ school cuts
Unite has warned that damaging school cuts will increase if the Tories regain power on June 8. The warning was issued after education unions, including Unite, condemned plans by an academy…Read more…
Tories’ ‘hit and miss’ plans
Unite has blasted the Tories’ “ad hoc” “hit and miss” industrial strategy, after details of the government’s deal with Nissan emerged. The Times obtained a four page letter from Nissan…Read more…
‘Keep Brexit vow to protect workers’
Unite is calling for an amendment to be tabled to the Great Repeal bill when it is brought before parliament. The amendment would stipulate a 66 per cent threshold must be met to make any changes to…Read more…
What sort of Britain?
When Pret a Manger opened its first sandwich shop in 1986, I doubt many of us would have expected well-known high street chains to end up trying to pay their staff in leftovers. But that’s…Read more…
“New Tory White Paper – Putting Jobs & Residents at Risk”. Emergency motion to UNISON Community Conference 2017
On 7 February 2017 the Government issued a white paper on the future of housing in England. The paper had been trailed beforehand as being the blueprint to fix the housing crisis and “as having affordability at its heart”.
The actual white paper has been dismissed by many commentators as being a…Read more…
A dark day for rights
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey vowed that Unite would not allow the Trade Union Act to stop the union from fully supporting the workers it represents, after many of the provisions of the Act…Read more…
‘Bonkers’
Although trade unions are at the forefront of delivering and supporting apprenticeships across all industrial sectors, it was revealed on Friday (January 27) that not one trade union representative…Read more…
A patient’s progress
I am relatively lucky in that I enjoy fairly good health and rarely have to use the NHS. In fact since moving to my current home over two and a half years ago I have yet to make a personal…Read more…
Inadequate ‘strategy’
Theresa May unveiled her new industrial strategy today (January 23) to a chorus of criticisms that the plan is inadequate and does not offer commitment to the single market or the kind of skills…Read more…
‘Pouring salt on the wound’
Iain Duncan Smith is earning nearly £1,250 an hour making speeches on the back of his former post as Tory benefit slasher-in-chief. The former Work and Pensions Secretary – who…Read more…
What hope workers’ rights under Tories?
Working people can take little comfort from Theresa May’s promise this week to transfer over rights when Britain leaves the EU. There may be a change at the top but, on workers’ rights, the…Read more…
Don’t throw our jobs under a bus
It is time to stop the posturing. Far too many people in public life are discussing Brexit as if it is a parlour game all about political positioning. It is not. Jobs are at stake and with…Read more…
‘No time to waste’
As prime minister Theresa May continues to ignore the mounting funding problems faced by the NHS — whose ongoing crisis was most shockingly exemplified by the story of a sick baby being treated on…Read more…
‘Get a grip’
The Prime Minister shrugged off the mounting NHS crisis yesterday (January 11) as a “small number” of incidents, even as 20 hospitals across England declared that they could no longer guarantee…Read more…
Excuses, excuses
The worst excuses of bosses guilty of not paying staff the minimum wage – including “she only makes tea”, “I only pay them when customers are in the shop” and “they aren’t British so don’t have the…Read more…
More wasted years?
In the middle of the political wreckage left by the referendum to leave the European Union the Autumn Statement was delivered by a new Chancellor for a new Prime Minister, but the message was clear –…Read more…
All too little
Chancellor Philip Hammond has failed to throw a lifeline to those on low wages or to demonstrate that this government will lay the solid economic foundations needed for a successful Brexit. Unite…Read more…