Commenting on the Financial Reporting Council's Review of the Stewardship Code for Institutional Investors (ISC code) announced today (Tuesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
TUBE UNION RMT announced today that London Underground (Metronet) members covered by the Signals Framework Agreement have voted by a massive majority of over 90% for strike action and action short of a strike in a dispute over the imposition of new rosters, breaches of agreements and the handing over of work to external contractors.
The three local government trade unions have published ten key facts about the local government pension scheme to set the record straight about a pension scheme with over four million members and £120 billion in assets.
An in-depth investigation, called for by the Unite trade union, has revealed that non-UK workers at Staythorpe power station in the East Midlands have been losing out on thousands of pounds in pay due to a subcontractor paying them significantly below the agreed rates for the engineering construction industry.
Licence holders risk losing their licence if they fail to comply with the GLA’s Licencing Standards – this could be with immediate effect
The debate about pensions must not be allowed to become a race to the bottom says GMB
Unite's concerns for Cadbury's future and the future of nearly 7,000 workers in the UK and Ireland very much remain.
The TUC today (Monday) reacted with disappointment to the news that BECTU's Freedom of Information request for full ethnic monitoring data to be disclosed by Ofcom covering the UK's commercial broadcasters has been rejected by the Information Tribunal.
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Threats to subject teachers to unlimited observation, to tear up contracts, to abandon national pay frameworks and to make it easier to sack teachers are unnecessary and unacceptable. They paint a picture of a failing profession that is unjustified and has no basis in fact.
Employers "treading on thin ice", says UNISON