The announcement by the chancellor is the clearest demonstration yet that this government has failed to make any progress on reforming the banking sector.
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…
This is a drop in the ocean says UNISON
Big Society is a "big con"
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.
Responding to the Chancellor’s announcement that the Bank Levy will increase to £2.5bn this year, Grahame Smith, STUC General Secretary said:
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.
Hundreds of union members will come to Westminster to lobby their MPs to stand up against the coalition government’s so-called ‘public service reform’ in the form of the Public Bodies bill.