Saturday, 8 December 2012
Autumn Statement confirms that Austerity economics doesn't work
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John Cassidy, writing for the New Yorker website, analyses the Autumn Statement of Chancellor George Osborne and concludes, without doubt, t...
Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class by Liz Lochhead
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Her hair is cut into that perfect slant – An innovation circa ‘64 by Vidal Sassoon. She’s wearing C&A’s best effort at Quant Ending j...
Friday, 7 December 2012
UNISON fights North Lanarkshire cuts
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UNISON, Unite and community groups demonstrated yesterday in atrocious weather against £73 million in cuts proposed by North Lanarkshire Cou...
We Own It: public services belong to us
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The government's Open Public Services policy aims to 'open up' all public services to a 'range of providers' including p...
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Lies, damned lies and Osborne’s statement
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To deflect outrage from the OBR’s horrendous forecast that 1.1m public sector jobs will be lost by 2018, in his Autumn Statement Chancellor ...
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Unions and social movements
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The current edition of the Economist carries an article on union decline and claims that social movements such as London Citizens are 'i...
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Council care services ravaged by closures & outsourcing
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'Cuts passed on to local authorities by central government since the last spending review have caused a raft of closures, and outsourcin...
Monday, 3 December 2012
Idea for next Labour Manifesto? - UK Ratification of ILO Convention 94 labour clauses (public contracts)
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Given the Labour Party leadership's backing for a living wage and growing support for inclusion of a living wage clause in public sector...
Latin America 2012: Courage, solidarity and inspiration
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It is impossible to put in words the feeling I had listening to Aidee Moreno from Colombia’s Agricultural Workers Union at Saturday's La...
Sunday, 2 December 2012
Austerity and gender equality at work
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UNISON activist Angela Rayner writes on the Shifting Grounds blog about the impact of austerity on gender equality and calls on Labour to fo...
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