Government must create jobs, not blame sick and disabled for being out of work

Commenting on findings from the government's incapacity benefit reassessment programme published today (Friday) by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: “While we welcome the government's commitment to implement the Harrington Review to improve the operation of work capability assessments, these trials were carried out under the old system where 40 per cent of appeals were upheld, due to problems the government acknowledges still exist.

RMT steps up fight to save hundreds of jobs at the Royal Fleet Auxiliary – the Royal Navy life line

MARITIME UNION RMT today announced that it is stepping up the national political and public fight against cuts plans at the Royal Navy's supplies lifeline - the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) - as a consequence of the ConDem Government's Strategic Defence and Security Review. RMT is piling pressure on MP's warning that hundreds of jobs, and three vessels out of the current sixteen servicing the naval fleet, remain under threat.

PILOTS FATIGUE WARNING

BALPA has warned that the Colgan disaster on 12th February 2009 when 50 were killed in an airliner which crash-landed at Buffalo, USA, could happen here in the UK if EU rules on pilot fatigue are...

PILOTS FATIGUE WARNING

BALPA has warned that the Colgan disaster on 12th February 2009 when 50 were killed in an airliner which crash-landed at Buffalo, USA, could happen here in the UK if EU rules on pilot fatigue are...