31 December 2016
A week after private provider ISS secured acontract at a Kent hospital, it proposed making 30 cleaners redundant – despite a history of norovirus outbreaks at the hospital.
30 December 2016
The Royal College of Surgeons has called on the government to use Brexit to strengthen language testing for overseas doctors and increase the time allocated to medical training.
14 December 2016
With the enemies of Brexit lining up to lodge court cases to thwart the people’s decision in the referendum, the CPBML has produced a new leaflet calling for Article 50 to be invoked.
The International Monetary Fund now accepts that its forecast of a post-Brexit vote financial crash has proved overly pessimistic.
Wildlife and conservation charities are realising the opportunities created by leaving the EU.
Since decimalisation of the currency in 1970 there has been a continuous campaign by supporters of metrication, promoted by the EU, to enforce changes to weights, measurements and distances.
One of the glorified gunboats deployed to pursue a Russian aircraft carrier broke down while playing war games and had to be towed home.
14 December 2016
The site of a former home for vulnerable adults is now on the market having been redeveloped for private housing.
Specialist outsourcing company Mitie has decided home care isn't profitable any more and is leaving the domestic home care market.
Last year’s Brexit decision is starting to influence Britain’s economic direction, if Chancellor Philip Hammond's first Atumn Statement is anything to go by.
14 December 2016
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, identified last week that real wages in Britain have fallen for the first time in 150 years.
14 December 2016
The government has abandoned the attempt to spread the concept of “owner-employees”, introduced four years ago by the Coalition government.
Some 3,000 public library workers, users and authors marched on 5 November from the British Library, London, to Trafalgar Square.
13 December 2016
Sir James Dyson intends to establish an Institute of Technology in 2017. This positive initiative it raises significant questions for our class. We must become the front runners in preparing for life after Brexit; it’s not enough to leave the future of Britain to others.
The latest figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government show that 294 people died in fires in England during 2015.
3 December 2016
Members of the Commuication Workers Union in Crown post offices across the country are on strike today, protesting against further “managed decline” of British postal services.
Fidel Castro, who died last Friday, represented the struggle for the independence of Cuba from US control, for independence for the Cuban nation and the Cuban working class.
23 November 2016
On 5 December judges on the Supreme Court will decide who is sovereign in this country – parliament or the people. They should allow the government to implement the Brexit referendum
31 October 2016
After the SNP lost the 2014 vote, many in Scotland joined the SNP. In England too, many joined Labour and the Lib Dems after the EU referendum. These are reactionary currents.
31 October 2016
The Remainers are professional denigrators of Britain, running down anything in an attempt to show they were right. Manufacturing is proving them wrong.
In a complete U-turn, the industrial consortium Liberty House has stopped demolition of the Sheerness steelworks in Kent. It now plans to renovate and re-open them by summer 2017.
30 October 2016
A “Buy British” scheme is to be launched using Brexit freedoms from EU directives to protect our woodlands from pests and diseases brought in by imported trees.
Real wages in Britain have fallen by more than 10 per cent in the past ten years, according to government figures.
Italy’s GDP is up by only 0.8 per cent on last year. In this year’s second quarter, there was no growth at all.
27 October 2016
NHS England is trying to defy the historic referendum vote to leave the EU by applying EU rules to the procurement of up to £15 billion of specialised services contracts.
24 October 2016
Belgium cannot sign the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, the EU’s proposed trade deal with Canada because of opposition from local elected bodies. That may block the whole deal.
The government wants massive cuts to staffing on Britain’s railways regardless of safety. ASLEF is to ballot train drivers in Southern rail against that threat, joining RMT guards in their increasingly bitter dispute.
Deutsche Bahn, the German state-owned rail company, has axed nearly 900 jobs, a quarter of its British workforce.
Unison’s go-it-alone stance on local government pay has hit the buffers. Its additional pay claim for 2017-18 is not supported by other unions. Employers have refused the claim. New thinking is needed by workers to make progress.
The economic troubles of the EU will not go away, despite the sustained denials by politicians, echoed by some here in Britain. One expert tells a different story, explaining that struggling through crisises cannot go on endlessly.
