Commenting on the announcement today (Friday) that the government is to put on hold plans to sell off some of England's forests, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:17:00 GMT
The councils involved are to be congratulated for making a stand on this issue.
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:17:00 GMT
The councils involved are to be congratulated for making a stand on this issue.
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.
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.
Low and middle income families will suffer annual benefit cuts of over £2,700 a year by 2013 despite the government's pledge that there are to be ‘no losers' in the setting up of the new universal credit system, the TUC is warning today (Friday).
Cabinet ministers Eric Pickles and Baroness Warsi will have to face angry Warwickshire workers when they attend the meeting of the Conservative Local Government Councillors Association.
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...
EU must follow US lead on air safety
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...