TUC slates Policy Exchange attack on workplace health and safety‏

The TUC has slammed proposals by the right wing Policy Exchange lobby group as 'Alice in Wonderland'. Chiming with Tory Party de-regulation proposals, the new report 'Health and Safety - Reducing the Burden' advocates the 'stripping back' of health and safety regulations - going as far as to question whether 'the self-employed need any health and safety requirements at all?'

Our City's Not For Sale, says Edinburgh

UNISON has launched a campaign against 'reckless' council plans to sell-off Edinburgh services and over 3,000 jobs. The "Our City's Not For Sale" campaign will work with other unions, community groups and the public to expose the dangers of the council's 'alternative business models'.

South East Region backs Dave Prentis for GS

Another UNISON region - South East region meeting in Guildford - today backed Dave Prentis in the General Secretary election.

UNISON launches Who Cares: Who Pays? report on personalisation

UNISON has today launched a hard-hitting report on the future for care in the UK, in light of the roll out of personalised budgets in social care.

Breaking news - Greater London region backs Dave Prentis in GS election‏

The 130,000 strong Greater London Region today resoundingly backed Dave Prentis in the UNISON General Secretary election.

Exposed - New Labour's complicity with the Public Services Industrial Complex‏

The latest cash-for-influence lobbying scandal has exposed the symbiotic relationship between New Labour and the corporate interests which profit from the privatisation of public services.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7069795.ece

Taking the Axe to Axa - hands off our pensions‏

AXA insurance, who are registered in France, want our pension benefits turned into the poor money purchase system forced upon wokers in the private sector over the last five years.

Three more assassinations in Colombia‏

Last week one journalist and two social leaders were murdered in unrelated incidents in Colombia. On Monday 15th March, human rights activist Jhonny Hurtado was shot dead near his home on the rural outskirts of La Macarena municipality, Meta department. Jhonny was president of the human rights committee in the La Catalina area of La Macarena.

Jack Jones & James Connolly‏

On Saturday 13 March 2010, the International Brigade Memorial Trust held a celebration of the life of Jack Jones (1913 - 2009), at the Imperial War Museum in London. Manus O'Riordan, Head of Research at the leading Irish trade union SIPTU and son of Irish International Brigade member Michael O'Riordan, introduced 'a rebel song' by James Connolly:

The House Murdered by Mahmoud Darwish‏

In one minute, the whole life of a house ends.
The house murdered is also mass murder, even if vacant of its residents.