In a year when workers in the financial services industry have experienced unprecedented numbers of job losses, workplace representatives from banks and insurance companies across the UK will today (Tuesday 24th November) arrive in Brighton for the Unite conference for the financial sector.
RAIL UNION RMT warned today that the impact of the floods on the West Coast Main Line exposes the potentially fatal flaws in Network Rail's plans to axe 1448 maintenance jobs - with 679 of those planned job cuts targeted at the West Coast route.
Unite, the UK’s largest union for finance works and the union that represents workers at Northern Rock, has called on the Government to re-mutualise Northern Rock and return the former building society back to the North East local community where it belongs.
Unite members have voted to accept an offer from the Engineering Construction Employers Association on a new national agreement which should bring stability to a crucial sector responsible for building a new fleet of UK power stations.
RAIL UNION RMT today slammed the government for acting like 'compulsive gamblers' after ministers announced a timetable for a third punt on the privatisation of the East Coast Main Line following the renationalisation of the route only ten days ago.
Regretfully Chelmsford Councillors again refused to instigate a freeze on issuing new cab licenses (plates), acting on, GMB believes, erroneous advice from one of council officers
GMB is determined to change the attitude to employment in the industry and will work to secure the necessary changes to achieve this outcome
Despite the economic battering of the past 12 months BALPA’s Annual Delegate Conference was hugely successful
Despite the economic battering of the past 12 months BALPA’s Annual Delegate Conference was hugely successful
Report blames Vice Chancellor and board of governors for financial crisis.