The facts about what leaving the EU would mean
The EU is an organisation that was formed, and is run, by the employing class for itself. We are for the interests of the working class in Britain.
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Tomorrow's doctors?
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has pledged a “new deal” for GPs, boosting their number by 5,000 over five years, along with 7-day access to GP services. In reality GP numbers are set to decline.
GP shortage - What's needed?
The current 9 to 5 GP service should be properly resourced with timely appointments available to patients
A waste of a dispute?
The short dispute among waste collection vehicle drivers in Barking and Dagenham ended with a return to work. One lesson of the setback is that unions must work together.
Them and us
Unemployment benefits account for just 4 per cent of Britain’s welfare budget. But 75 per cent of us thought that they account for 40 per cent or more. Myths have consequences. Playing on such false belief makes it easier to justify cutting the welfare budget.
TTIP: the big myth mauled
A study from an American university puts the claims about TTIP’s benefits to the test – and finds disastrous consequences for jobs, wages and government spending.
UCU ready to fight on pay
As Workers goes to press, the Higher Education Committee of the University and College Union will be meeting to discuss the results of its consultative pay ballot.
Budgeting for decline
Chancellor George Osborne will deliver another government budget on 8 July. Familiarity with the themes of “austerity” and “balancing the books” should not blind us to what is going on behind the figures
Union rights restored
In the week leading up to the general election the London Borough of Wandsworth restored deduction of trade union subscriptions from payroll and returned to the Local Government national agreement they had torn up nearly 35 years ago.
Unison: anyone voting?
The most significant result of Unison's national executive council elections was the turnout – down 25 per centy on the previous elections, and an average turnout of just 5.6 per cent.
'Motorsport valley': a centre of manufacturing excellence
In “Motorsport Valley”, the business cluster near the Silverstone circuit in Northamptonshire, around 4,300 companies employ around 41,000 people and have a combined turnover of around £9 billion a year.
Cuts to shore up PFI
Barts Health, the largest NHS Trust in Britain, has now released its deficit projection for 2016, with massive cuts almost identical to the cost of servicing its PFI debt.