Date: Monday 14th February 2011
Unions into Schools is a new set of on-line teaching resources for use in secondary school classrooms, bringing pupils into contact with trade unions, their history and their role in the contemporary workplace, wider society and around the globe.
You are welcome to join us at the launch event to find out more and to see how we might help bring these materials to your schools and communities.
Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:54:00 GMT
This Bill should be a wake-up call to all those who care about children’s education.
Government proposals announced today (Thursday) to sell off England's forests and woodlands to private companies or transfer them to charitable trusts could make it much harder for the public to enjoy the countryside, leave charities out of pocket, and will raise little revenue from the public purse, says the TUC.
UCU today accused the government of ducking further scrutiny of its 'punitive' plans for university funding after it added reforms to the student loans system in England to an education bill that is dominated by school reforms.
The TUC is calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) today (Thursday).
HMD remembers the loss of life in the holocaust of World War II, as well as in more recent genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur, and has been held annually in the UK since 2001.
Contractors have begun stripping the aircraft before they are dismantled for scrap metal.
The government's plans to attack employees’ access to justice in the workplace is yet another signal that this Tory-led government is leaving working families to either sink or swim.
Unite fears that 10,000 council jobs are under threat in the North West.
RMT train cleaning crews, employed by the Mitie company and servicing First Great Western trains out of depots at Cardiff and Swansea will strike for 24 hours following a 100% vote for action in a dispute over pensions, payment of wages, failure to communicate and failure to make an offer on pay for 2010.
By abolishing the Forestry Commission, which is crucial to protecting the environment, hundreds of specialist 'green' jobs will be lost.