Saturday, 26 January 2013
A Marshall Plan for Europe - German Unions Aim High
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The German trade union centre DGB has published an ambitious €260 billion Marshall Plan for Europe, aimed at generating economic growth and ...
Man's a Man by Hugh MacDiarmid
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There was a massive St Bernard and a sinewy greyhound And a wise old collie, when breaking through Came a hideous dachshund Proclaiming ‘...
Friday, 25 January 2013
Walmart organising campaigns creating a buzz in the US
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Small but highly publicized strikes by Walmart retail and warehouse workers last autumn 'set the labor movement abuzz and gained new res...
Lewisham Hospital demo Sat 26 January
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The next step in the fight to save Lewisham Hospital is a wide community demonstration assembling at the main roundabout outside Lewisham Ra...
Thursday, 24 January 2013
A Trade Union Yes to EU? Not at any Neo-Liberal price
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Yesterday in his Bloomberg speech David Cameron set out a five point bottom line for renegotiation of the UK relationship with the EU, to be...
Private health contractor's staff 'told to cut 999 calls to meet targets'
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The Guardian reports that a leaked email from Serco managers tells workers to manipulate a computer system to 'stop the clock' on em...
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Unions are good for public finances - new research
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It may seem to be blindingly obvious to those of us in all levels of the public sector that we generally do an efficient job with a view to ...
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Putting faith in untested theories
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Demos have hardly been the bastions of left leaning politics as the plaything of New Labour but their latest ‘report’ frankly stretches the ...
Campaign for trade union freedom launch
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Launch rally 23 March. A date for your diary - be part of it! Since 1980 the unions in our country have had their rights, supposedly guarant...
Monday, 21 January 2013
Inez - 'loved in low places and loathed in high places'
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In the union we have always known her true worth. It lies not solely in her remarkable journey, engaging with power systems dominated by d...
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