Refugees – and civil servants who’ll have to effect this cruel policy – will both suffer. That’s why proper scrutiny is essentialMark Serwotka is general secretary of the Public and Commercial…Read more…
A four-day working week? Bring it on | Gregor Gall
The TUC’s proposals for less time at week are laudable and could lead to a historic victory for workers’ rights
On the 150th anniversary of its establishment, it seems the TUC has refound its…Read more…
A four-day working week? Bring it on | Gregor Gall
The TUC’s proposals for less time at work are laudable and could lead to a historic victory for workers’ rights
On the 150th anniversary of its establishment, it seems the TUC has refound its…Read more…
Civil servants’ pay has stagnated for a decade. They need a real rise | Mark Serwotka
After years of cuts and pay freezes, public sector staff need an above-inflation pay rise
Even at the best of times, it is not easy to be a public sector worker. Today, it has never been harder.
Far…Read more…
Civil servants’ pay has stagnated for a decade. They need a real rise | Mark Serwotka
After years of cuts and pay freezes, public sector staff need an above-inflation pay rise
Even at the best of times, it is not easy to be a public sector worker. Today, it has never been harder.
Far…Read more…
Ministers blaming Home Office staff is a perverse twist in the Windrush scandal | Mark Serwotka
It’s shameless of Theresa May and Amber Rudd to try to shift the blame on to people who have a difficult enough job as it is
The escalating Windrush scandal has rightly caused national outrage….Read more…
How dare ministers try to blame the Windrush fiasco on Home Office staff | Mark Serwotka
It’s shameless of Theresa May and Amber Rudd to try to shift the blame on to people who have a difficult enough job as it is
The escalating Windrush scandal has rightly caused national outrage….Read more…
Why has Britain stopped striking? Workers no longer feel empowered to act | Gregor Gall
With workers’ wages falling fast, it’s clear our country’s unions are not doing their job. Pernicious employers can be hit in the pocket with the right sort of action
Striking in Britain has now…Read more…
Why has Britain stopped striking? Workers no longer feel empowered to act | Gregor Gall
With workers’ wages falling fast, it’s clear our country’s unions are not doing their job. Pernicious employers can be hit in the pocket with the right sort of action
Striking in Britain has now…Read more…
Tories will try anything to shackle unions, but ultimately they will fail
Government attempts to stop public sector staff paying union subs through payroll check-off were political and wrong, according to the high court
A high court judgment last week against the largest…Read more…
Tories will try anything to shackle unions, but ultimately they will fail
Government attempts to stop public sector staff paying union subs through payroll check-off were political and wrong, according to the high court
A high court judgment last week against the largest…Read more…
How Tory desperation to smear Labour sank the Carr review on unions | Gregor Gall
In its haste to attack unions, the Conservative party has shot itself in the foot and proved the review was just a cynical pre-election stunt
For as long as David Cameron has been leader of the…Read more…
Postal workers’ strike: Royal Mail should expect a battle royal | Gregor Gall
The CWU may have lost the battle on privatisation, but industrial action will send a powerful message on pay and conditions
It’s been a case of third time unlucky for the postal workers’ union (CWU)….Read more…
Firefighters’ strike: a smart, strategic move by the union | Gregor Gall
The way the FBU has gone about calling its four-hour strike provides a lesson for other unions preparing industrial action
The announcement by the firefighters’ union of a four-hour strike next week…Read more…
Workers recognise the importance of unions in protecting their rights | Gregor Gall
Despite a rise in unemployment, union membership has also increased, reflecting the need for collective action
Against all the odds, union membership rose in Britain last year for the first time in a…Read more…
Tory equality policy is a sick tribute to the memory of Stephen Lawrence | Mark Serwotka
Twenty years on from Lawrence’s murder, government plans to remove a key equality law would roll back years of progress
Our Tory-led government will today mark the 20th anniversary of the racist…Read more…
Forget Europe – the markets hold the real unaccountable power | Mark Serwotka
An unholy matrimony between finance and politics has undermined democracy: it’s time it was reinforced
Listening to economics being discussed in the media is like being read a fairy story. In any…Read more…
Autumn statement 2012: expert verdict
Our experts give their reaction to George Osborne’s autumn statement on the economy
George Osborne has spoken. But what he said on tax will disappoint most people who listened. Continue reading…Read more…
Slashing and privatising public services: David Cameron’s ‘aspiration nation’ | Mark Serwotka
The Tories’ ideological cuts will hit us all, not just public servants’ jobs. Join the new coalition of the dispossessed to protest
Earlier this week civil servants learned – through a combination of…Read more…
Why revisit the working time directive? | Gregor Gall
The coalition has carefully chosen to reassess this bugbear of the Tory right in exchange for changes to the Lisbon treaty
Every crisis also provides an opportunity. In exchange for agreeing to the…Read more…