Commenting on the GDP figures for the first quarter of 2011 published today (Wednesday) TUC Deputy General Secretary Frances O'Grady said: “Today's figures show that the UK's recovery has effectively stalled and our sluggish growth rate means we are now lagging way behind our international competitors.
Call outs for Ambulances are rising by over 4% per year and these cuts will lead to there being 18% less emergency vehicles on London’s roads so it will be impossible for the current level of service...
Proof that Tory policies are wrong for our recovery just keeps on mounting
People killed at work to be commemorated in wreath-laying ceremony on Thursday April 28 – Workers' Memorial Day
UNISON reiterates call for health bill to be scrapped
Commenting on publication of preliminary estimates for UK GDP growth in Q1 2011 which showed growth of 0.5%, Grahame Smith, STUC General Secretary said:
Ahead of the first International Workers Memorial Day (Thursday 28th April) to be recognised formally by the UK Government the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) has called for communities throughout Scotland to remember the hundred of Scottish workers who have died in the past year as a result of industrial injury or disease.
The Communication Workers Union will tomorrow (Thursday) mark International Workers' Memorial Day with the official opening of the CWU Memorial Garden at the union's national education and training centre in Oxfordshire.
Migrant workers, trade unionists and local campaigners are pushing for Kent agricultural producer Thanet Earth and supermarket buyers to stop exploiting workers.
Unite members are to commemorate International Workers' Memorial Day.