Gibraltar’s Moroccan workers’ fight for rights echoes Ghurkhas, Unite tells foreign secretary
The UK government must not delay in granting full rights.
Inequality is the UK’s worst enemy, says TUC
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.
‘Cambridge Review is being hijacked by those who seek to denigrate state education’ says NASUWT
Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:16:00 GMT
The report appears to be being hijacked by those who seek constantly to denigrate the achievements of state education and wish to present a picture of a broken education system.
The report appears to be being hijacked by those who seek constantly to denigrate the achievements of state education and wish to present a picture of a broken education system.
Bus and van drivers need better protection against long hours working
The rules governing the working hours of bus, coach and van drivers are so out of date that many drivers have fewer breaks than office workers, the TUC warns today (Friday).
GMB, Unison & The Romanca Society “Refuse To Be Beat†Benefit Gig And Rally In Leeds On Sunday 18th October 2009- Requests For Media Credentials
Strike over £6000 pay cuts for City cleaning staff about to go into 7th week
RMT calls for end to National Express rail shambles and early renationalisation as takeover bid collapses
RAIL UNION RMT today called upon the government to intervene to end the on-going shambles of National Express rail operations and to set a clear timetable for renationalisation of the East Coast Mainline and the East Anglia and C2C franchises as a takeover bid for the company collapsed in disarray this morning triggering a 30% collapse in National Express's share price.
Unite welcomes NHS ‘preferred provider’ pledge
Unite welcomed the government’s statement that the NHS is ‘the preferred provider’ of choice when it comes to delivering services, rather than private sector organisations.
Protest over 54 sacked in ‘race row’
54 workers at the 2 Sisters poultry processor's site A plant in Birmingham have been unfairly dismissed for defending their union reps against racist abuse.
Unite welcomes NHS ‘preferred provider’ pledge
Unite welcomed the government’s statement that the NHS is ‘the preferred provider’ of choice when it comes to delivering services, rather than private sector organisations.
Union TV TUC special II
In a feature to be screened next Tuesday 20th October on channel 186 of Sky digital, Union TV will air the second instalment of its TUC special, featuring an interview with Unite's joint general secretary Tony Woodley.