Unionlearn has produced two briefings for ULRs that derive from the experience gathered by the Skills: Recession and Recovery project.
As existing contracts fail, industrial action escalates at EasyCouncil
Staff want to remain employed by Barnet Council
Inflation at 4% – UNISON response
Small fall is scant comfort for public sector workers
The Ruskin College MA in International Labour and Trade Union Studies – Bursaries
Bursaries are available to students who are offered a place on the following course: The Ruskin College MA in International Labour and Trade Union Studies
Chancellor has a direct hand in Britain’s big income squeeze, says TUC
Commenting on the latest inflation figures published today (Tuesday) by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which show that RPI inflation fell to 5.3 per cent in March, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Using RPI to set student loans will cost graduates up to £5,000 more, says TUC
The government's refusal to change the interest rate on student loans from the retail prices index (RPI) to the consumer prices index (CPI) – despite already doing so for key benefits, tax thresholds and public sector pensions – will leave graduates thousands of pounds deeper in debt, the TUC warns today (Tuesday).
Respect prevents radicalism
The NAHT has welcomed the government's acknowledgement of the good work being done in the nation's schools to protect young people from extremist influences.
STUC WELCOMES DAMAGES SCOTLAND ACT RULING
STUC WELCOMES DAMAGES SCOTLAND ACT RULING The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) has welcomed the ruling from the Court of Session rejecting the latest attempts from the insurance industry to deny compensation for thousands of workers exposed to asbestos and who subsequently contracted pleural plaques.
More than 250,000 public servants to ballot for strike
More than a quarter of a million civil and public servants could be balloted for a strike over cuts to pensions, jobs and pay.
No back-door privatisation of pensions work
Today's announcement by the Cabinet Office that it will turn the organisation that administers civil service pensions into a 'mutual' is privatisation by the back door, PCS says.