It’s become a mantra, endlessly repeated by the TUC: “Workers must not pay the price of Brexit.” What price would that be? And how about acknowledging the price of staying in the EU?
We’ve had a government policy paper over free movement. But we still need clarity…
25 August 2017
Sections of the establishment are regrouping to prevent a clean departure from the EU. Once again working people will have to put real pressure on the political class of Britain.
Instead of plugging skills gaps by sucking in people from abroad we have to create and implement a long-term plan for our future that develops streams of skilled people for industries, energy, transportation, services and health care
There was a time when the term “industrial strategy” would simply bring sneers from government. The vote to leave the EU has changed all that. The first clear product is a plan for Britain’s shipbuilding industry…
Beset by EU-dictated cost rises, the transport secretary is cancelling a raft of plans to extend electrification across the rail network. The move has sparked fierce opposition, and not a little ridicule…
British universities have been doing well out of EU funding – but at a cost for everyone else…
More and more staff at Barts Health are seeing the importance of protecting Agenda for Change rates…
24 August 2017
On 16 October 1934, about 100,000 men and women in China’s Red Army broke out of their surrounded soviet base. Their extraordinary year-long march to the other end of China changed not only the balance of forces in China but also the world.
The RMT has called further strikes in Southern, Arriva Rail Northern and Merseyrail in September over the future of train guards.
Despite the vote to leave the European Union, the government is still facilitating EU interference in Ukraine.
The ratio of pay between the average top FTSE 100 Chief Executive Officer pay and the average worker now stands at 129:1.
