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The EU’s Agency Workers Directive hasn’t protected us – just encouraged the massive growth of casualisation…
The EU’s Agency Workers Directive hasn’t protected us – just encouraged the massive growth of casualisation…
The crisis in school places is already a huge problem, especially in primaries, due mainly to local large spikes in population (it will hit the secondaries very soon).
Thanks to George Osborne, ably supported by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, a new word is gaining currency – “academisation”, the forcible conversion of schools into unaccountable academies…
28 April 2016
Workers Memorial Day was marked across Britain today, with construction workers taking the lead. Hundreds gathered by the Building Worker tatue in London.
27 April 2016
RMT members on Southern Railway have concluded a successful 24-hour strike over driver-only operation, forcing the employer back to the negotiating table.
Barack Obama is not the first US president to lecture Britain about its place in the world. But he certainly chose a bizarre way to threaten the people of this country.
Patients relying on Sussex ambulances for transport to and from appointments have been left stranded after the contract went to a private company.
Two years after it was published the government is still refusing to publish a report it commissioned into children’s social care services.
The Trussell Trust announced in April that 1.1 million people in Britain are now using food banks to obtain emergency food supplies.
The government has confirmed it will push student nurses and other health care students into debts of at least £50,000 each by scrapping the NHS bursary.
Pay strategies in local government are now in disarray. Unison, the largest union in local government, has come to a standstill as the members reject the union’s direction of travel.
We have said that the fight to ditch the EU is the “decisive confrontation” facing the working class this year. During the referendum campaign, the battle lines have been drawn ever more sharply.