9 June 2017
Ambulance employers have given way and agreed to the unions’ demand that paramedics be upgraded. It’s the result of a two-year national negotiation – and decades of organisation.
Brexit means we are no longer beholden to the EU. As far as fisheries are concerned, we are now in charge.
24 May 2017
Read the manifestos and one thing is clear: not a single one can be implemented unless Britain leaves the EU, including its disastrous single market.
22 May 2017
The Durham Miners Gala started life as a celebration of mining communities but is now a celebration of trade unionism and working class values. This year’s Gala has much to celebrate.
22 May 2017
Hailed as Europe’s saviour, Emmanuel Macron’s first foreign trip as French President was to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel. They pledged to draw up a “common road map” for Europe and threatened Britain.
12 May 2017
The EU continues to act in bad faith towards Britain over our vote to leave. Its negotiating guidelines aim to continue the European Court's influence over Britain.
The EU Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications Directive – or MRPQ – is a fundamental component of the Single Market. It allows professionals to have their qualifications, obtained in one member state, recognised in another.
Do British workers really not want to work in the NHS? No, they want to, but they struggle first to find the money to train, then to live on the wages. And have been reluctant to fight for pay…
Until the latter part of the 19th century, paid holidays hardly existed for workers in Britain. So how and when were they won? (A clue: not by the EU)
As negotiations on Brexit begin, a new pamphlet cuts through the hard/soft waffle that dominates the media…
The phrase “we are all living longer” has been a well rehearsed slogan to justify an endless attack on state and occupational pension entitlement.
On 29 March the government gave formal notice that Britain will depart from the EU once and for all time. Now Article 50 has been invoked and the clock is ticking.
