Unite has welcomed Jeremy Corbyn’s proposed people’s railway describing it as “an end to business as usual for failed companies in a failed system.” The new Labour leader has indicated he…Read more…
“If she drowns she’s a refugee, if she floats she’s an economic migrant”.
This is the “Katie Hopkins” immigration test that the Tories are thinking of introducing to appease The Sun and Daily Mail readers.
Hat tip Becky Tye. Read more…
Is this why the Tories hate trade unions?
Fascinating chart. Now, I know that not all Tories hate trade unions but none of their MPs voted against the Trade Union Bill second reading on Monday even though this is a basic democratic and human rights issue.
The chart shows that the income of th…Read more…
Protect your vote
Unite has expressed grave concerns over Tory plans to speed up crucial legislation to voter registration. The campaign group Hope Not Hate is warning that as many as two million voters will be…Read more…
Relief for truck drivers?
It can be tough to spend a penny in an era of government cuts which have brought about the closure of so many public toilets. Toilet breaks are no laughing matter; rather they are a basic…Read more…
Democracy threatened
Unite is calling on the government to end what it calls a “shocking attack on democracy” because of Tory changes to voter registration. Rushed changes Figures suggest two million people…Read more…
Civil Rights and the Trade Union Bill
I’ve written a piece on the Tories’ new Trade Union Bill and opposition to it, which has been published here.Read more…
Refugee solidarity
Unite is backing delegations by Stand Up To Racism the first of which will travel to Calais on Saturday (5 September). The group is calling for “concrete solidarity” with migrants and refugees…Read more…
No energy delays
A decision is ‘desperately’ needed on the financing of the building of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, if the lights are to remain on in the years ahead. The French energy giant –…Read more…
Living Wage not all it seems
Welcome news for workers – a pay rise is on the way via the new National Living Wage. Sadly though all is not quite what is seems. New research from the Resolution Foundation of George…Read more…
Backing Corbyn – put on your tin hats
Every day seems to bring a new media-generated hoo-ha about what Jeremy Corbyn may or may not have said. As Owen Jones warns, we’d better get used to it. The vast armoury of the Tory press is trained…Read more…
Tory wage plans need leap of faith
Plans by the government to penalise businesses which fail to pay the national minimum way and the living wage have drawn a sceptical response from Unite. Britain’s largest union has warned it…Read more…
No to tipping cap
Unite has firmly rejected government proposals to cap the amount in tips restaurants can deduct from waiting staff. The union — which has led a campaign for tipping fairness…Read more…
Protect the right to strike
The Tories’ new Trade Union Bill is a massive attack on civil rights, from the right to strike to freedom of expression and assembly.
TUC General Secretary Fraces O’Grady has produced a short video as part of the campaign against it:
The TUC has als…Read more…
Select Committee on Future for Housing Associations – Have your say
My UNISON branch Greater London Housing Associations and the national UNISON Community Service Group Executive are asking members to make submissions to the Parliamentary Select Committee investigation into the future of Housing Associations. See below…Read more…
TU Bill: no justification
IndustriALL, the world-wide trade union, has hit out at the government’s trade union Bill, calling for it to stop the attacks on trade unions and start a dialogue. IndustriALL warns the…Read more…
TUC National Rally & March on the Tory Conference 4 October 2015
“Sunday 4 October – “No to austerity, yes to workers’ rights””On Sunday 4 October, the Conservative party will open their annual conference in Manchester. After five years of austerity, falling living standards, pay freezes and huge cuts to public services, a new parliament won’t offer a…Read more…
4 October National March & Rally – programme confirmed
#4Oct British trade unions are facing a full frontal attack. Government spending on public services and the welfare state is being rolled back decades. It has never been more important for trade…Read more…
The secret sanctions figures
The government is stopping payments to nearly three times as many jobseekers as their official figures suggest, according to new research by the Guardian newspaper. And the numbers being…Read more…
‘Bleeding’ us dry
‘Vampire’ Sajid Javid comes from the working class so why is he bleeding us of all our rights? Sajid Javid is the son of a bus driver who sits at the Cabinet table, the proud embodiment of the…Read more…