RAIL UNION RMT today announced a series of four 24 hour strikes by cleaners employed by the Carlisle Group on their Eurostar contract at St Pancras International in their fight for jobs and pay justice after the company failed to make any meaningful effort to resolve the dispute during extensive talks at arbitration service ACAS.
Merseytravel union learning representative (ULR) Tony Norbury has been awarded the regional individual National Training Award for for the positive impact his individual training journey has had on the taxi and private hire sector. Tony, from Tranmere on the Wirral, received his award from North West Tonight presenter Ranvir Singh at the Palace Hotel, Manchester on Tuesday 13th October.As as a result, he will go on to represent the North West at the National Training Awards (NTA) in London on the 10th December.
Responding to the Institute of Directors' (IOD) report on retirement published today (Monday), which calls for the state pension age to be raised to 70, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Saturday 31st October 2009 10.00 to 18.00 Holy Trinity Parish Centre, Brook Green, W6 7BL
Unite, the biggest union in Wales, has thrown its weight behind Edwina Hart as the union's candidate for the Welsh Labour party leadership election.
Angry workers at Diageo sites in Kilmarnock, Port Dundas and Shieldhall moved closer to industrial action to defend their jobs and plants as a consultative ballot opens.
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The UK government must not delay in granting full rights.
Author Richard Wilkinson will tell a TUC conference today (Monday) that inequality is the UK's worst enemy and that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them – the well-off as well as the poor.
With the UK one of the most unequal societies in Europe, Richard Wilkinson – author of The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better – will explain that inequality has a detrimental effect on health, education, behaviour, life chances, community cohesion and social mobility.