Express keyboard warrior Leo is back on the attack‏

One week before the TUC congress and the anti union media ultras are on the attack. Ex Labour councillor turned anti union obsessive Leo McKinstry is quick to jump on the union facility time bandwagon following yesterday’s attacks by the Sunday Telegraph/Tax Dodgers’ Alliance.
http://express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/197714

Wales could be decimated by Con Dem cuts‏

A BBC investigation confirm that Wales could be more vulnerable to spending cuts than other parts of the UK because of the high proportion of people employed in the public sector:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11151909

NHS Direct campaign goes to Burston rally‏

UNISON members leafletted to save NHS Direct at the Burston Rally, Diss, Norfolk on Sunday. There was a record attendance with speakers including Tony Benn, Ed Balls and Diane Abbott. The rally takes place on the first Sunday in September and commemorates the longest running strike in British history. The strike began when teachers at the village's Church of England school, Kitty Higdon and her husband, Tom Higdon, were sacked after a dispute with the area's school management committee and schoolchildren went on strike in their support. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burston_Strike_School

Labour must abandon privatisation - Prentis‏

"We will not go back to a New Labour agenda based on privatisation, and fragmentation and globalisation that we have had over the past few years” said Dave Prentis in a no holds barred interview with the Observer newspaper yesterday. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/05/david-miliband-unions-labour-leadership

How European multinationals violate labour rights in the US‏

Sodexo, Group 4, Siemens, DHL, Tesco among the firms highlighted in a new Human Rights Watch report 'As demonstrated in the cases detailed in this report, some of the largest and best-known European employers in the United States ... seem to forget their sensitivity to social responsibility concerns and much-touted public commitments to workers' rights.

Government preparing to privatise library service, warns Terence Blacker in the Independent‏

"A country's public library service is a sure indicator of how highly it values its citizens, its children and its future. There may well be a place for the new localism around the outer fringes of the service - the library is a focus of local life, after all - but, if the Government allows it to slip into decline in the hollow name of community, Ed Vaizey's promises and his boss's Big Society will be exposed as a heartless sham", writes Terence Blacker in the Independent‏  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/terence-blacker/terence-blacker-hands-off-our-public-libraries-2057131.html

Here we go again.Torygraph attacks public sector union rights‏

In 2010 lazy journalism is to recycle Freedom of Information requests (garnered at great public expense) and dress them up as an investigation:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7981717/Taxpayers-spend-millions-paying-for-trade-union-activities.html

Nothing new about BBC bias and capitulation to powerful interests‏

Good coverage on the TUC’s Touchstone blog of the controversy surrounding the attendance of BBC Director General Mark Thompson at a Downing street briefing on how to spin the Con Dem Government’s austerity measures: http://www.touchstoneblog.org.uk/2010/09/bbc-cuts-coverage/

International Solidarity - the only response to Globalisation?‏

The Human Rights Watch report ‘ A Strange Case - Violations of Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States by European Multinational Corporations’ opens the page on the monster coming over the hill for UNISON. http://www.hrw.org/node/92719

Anatomy of Migration by Rani Drew‏

Older than time, migration is the story
of survival. Change and betterment,
desire and dreams put motion into feet.