Unite is calling on the new boss of the Lloyds Banking Group, Antonio Horta-Osorio, to step in and stop these 200 jobs being cut.
Construction union UCATT have warned that extra vigilance is needed to ensure that the construction of the Olympic Games is completed safely.
Hundreds of staff from under-threat government agencies are expected to descend on Westminster tomorrow to put pressure on their MPs over the coalition's highly-criticised plan to cut so called...
On the day Trevor Phillips delivers a speech to the Policy Exchange think tank, staff in the Equality and Human Rights Commission write an open letter to the body's commissioners:
Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:51:00 GMT
The core values and ethos of state education, social justice, democratic accountability and equality, are all left in tatters by the provisions in this Bill.
Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:51:00 GMT
The core values and ethos of state education, social justice, democratic accountability and equality, are all left in tatters by the provisions in this Bill.
TUC Briefing: 7 February 2011
The Education Bill, which was introduced in Parliament on 26 January, takes forward a number of new measures set out in the Schools White Paper – The Importance of Teaching – and also builds on the provisions in the Academies Act. The TUC and its affiliated unions have raised a number of major concerns about the direction of the coalition government’s policy reform on school education…
Responding to today's announcement from the government that over 100,000 apprenticeships will be created, UCU warned that thousands of young people could still miss out after the government said it would withdraw its offer of a guaranteed apprenticeship for those with the right qualifications.
Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:15:00 GMT
Response to news that increased amount of funds being allocated by the Department for Education to the Coalition Government’s free schools programme
Speaking at the Southern & Eastern TUC conference on the first day of Apprenticeships Week, Tom Wilson, director of unionlearn, said