UCU today said that Cambridge University's plans to charge the full £9,000 fee with limited support for students from less welloff backgrounds exposed the problems of the new regime.
Joe Kennedy was introduced to his local POA union learning centre by a friend who was already learning computer skills at the centre. Joe, who is 69 years of age, recollects that his very first visit to the learning centre clarified for him that a mouse was not just a furry rodent with a long tail…
Big Society is a "big con"
This is a drop in the ocean says UNISON
Commenting on plans announced today (Tuesday) by the Chancellor to increase the bankers' levy to £2.5 billion this year, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
The government's notion of the Big Society is no more than a cover for massive cuts to public spending, says the TUC today (Tuesday) as it brings together unions and the voluntary sector to plan ways of working together to campaign against the cuts.
Construction union UCATT have warned that extra vigilance is needed to ensure that the construction of the Olympic Games is completed safely.
Unite is calling on the new boss of the Lloyds Banking Group, Antonio Horta-Osorio, to step in and stop these 200 jobs being cut.
The government will spend more than £850 million in redundancy payments to NHS managers and staff to pave the way for the privatisation of the health service.
The effort to present this bank levy as a punishment for the banks is pathetic.