Responding to comments from Dr. Ros Altmann today (Monday) that the Government should scrap its proposed personal accounts scheme, designed to boost the provision of workplace pensions, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Responding to the Land Registry House Price Index released today (Monday) which reveals house prices in the North of England have been most affected by the recession, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
“The Land Registry House Price Index shows that continued problems with banks giving their customers credit and concerns about job losses are having a real impact on the housing market in the UK.
Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:41:00 GMT
A big challenge for all parties is to decide how they will work with trade unions in the run up to and beyond the general election in order to engage the electorate in political processes and ensure democratic accountability.
GMB at Labour Party Conference in Brighton calls for a Labour Party manifesto commitment to introduce universal free school meals for primary school children
Boxer Amir Khan began the fightback for a fourth Labour term, by launching Unite's revolutionary online election campaigning tool for the union’s two million members.
Construction union UCATT have received a significant boost in their campaign to have the Gangmasters Act extended to the construction industry.
RAIL UNION RMT today confirmed a further six days of strike action by Eurostar cleaners working at St Pancras International for contractors the Carlisle Group in an increasingly bitter dispute over pay, the introduction of routine staff fingerprinting, redundancies and the victimisation and harassment of RMT union reps.
Unite, together with Amnesty International, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the wider international trade union movement, has been actively campaigning for the release of Mansour Osanloo, the Iranian Bus Workers’ trade union leader, and his union deputy, Ebrahim Madadi since their arrest and imprisonment two years ago.
A Cuban women who has been refused a visa to enter the United States on ten separate occasions, most recently because she may pose a “threat to the safety or national security of the United States†will be mixing freely with British government ministers and speaking at a Free the Miami Five fringe meeting organised by Unite the Union at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton next week.
Unite, the UK’s largest union, has today criticised the latest IBM proposals announced to the workforce. This follows a backlash by thousands of IBM employees because of its proposals to close the final salary pension schemes to future accrual for existing employees and alter the terms of its early retirement scheme.