Commenting on plans by Iain Duncan Smith to scrap the default retirement age, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
“While we welcome the decision to end the arbitrary retirement age, raising the state pension age over this short timescale is clearly driven by a desire to cut spending rather than a planned approach to introducing more flexible retirement.
As a matter of urgency it is vital that the new management give the 2,200 staff cast iron guarantees that their pensions are not in danger.
Unite the union has branded the Con-Dem budget as an ’attack on the purse’ as it will hurt women more then men.
Unite the union has branded the Con-Dem budget as an ’attack on the purse’ as it will hurt women more then men.
The country's largest civil service union, PCS, has condemned the suggestion that public servants should put forward ideas for spending cuts as breathtakingly arrogant and deceitful.
UCU has welcomed the announcement that Glasgow University has ruled out compulsory redundancies.
UCU calls for urgent talks to avoid widespread disruption
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:28:00 GMT
The NASUWT comments on a report into Swedish free schools published in the latest edition of Research in Public Policy.
VQs pass 4 million mark on Vocational Qualifications Day
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:13:00 GMT
Teachers in England and Wales will be relieved that the final year of the three year pay award they had been promised will be honoured by this Government.