RAIL UNIONS will join up with passenger groups and community supporters for a mass rally and lobby of Parliament on Tuesday - 25th October - as part of the national campaign to stop the Government from implementing the recommendations of the McNulty Rail Review.
Yorkshire and the Humber has had the sharpest public expenditure cut of any English region during the first year of the coalition government, with an average loss of £390 per person, the TUC says today (Thursday).
Commenting on the announcement today (Wednesday) that the government is to abandon plans for the UK's first coal-fired power plant to have included carbon capture and storage technology, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
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Commenting on the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics on life expectancy across the UK published today (Wednesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
More than a million families could lose over 16 per cent of their council tax allowance under government proposals to replace the universal Council Tax Benefit (CTB) with local authority-run schemes, says the TUC today (Wednesday).
A public meeting to highlight how disabled people are among the hardest hit from Government cuts and planned benefit changes will take place at 6.30pm on Friday 21st October at Sunderland Civic Centre. The meeting has been organised by the Sunderland Public Services Alliance and the Hardest Hit campaign group.
Commenting on the latest inflation figures published today (Tuesday) by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which show that RPI inflation increased to 5.6 per cent and CPI increased to 5.2 per cent in September, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
A failure to invest now in carbon capture and storage (CCS) is not only placing at risk the jobs of the 10,000 people directly employed in the coal mining and coal power industries, but is also jeopardising the chances of the UK becoming a world leader in the emerging low-carbon technology, warns the TUC today (Monday).
TUC research which aims to challenge and dispel popular but unfounded myths and stereotypes about people living in poverty is being published at a conference in London today (Monday).
Responding to the government's amendment to the Pensions Bill to cap the increase in the state pension age for some groups of women, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: