30 September 2014
Midwives and maternity support workers will walk out on Monday 13 October after the government overruled the Independent Pay Review Board’s recommendation for a 1 per cent rise.
We are told that we have to attack Syria in order to defeat the Islamic State (IS). The peoples of the Middle East will have to deal with their own backward feudal despots.
19 September was a great day, a great victory – a day of unity when the people of Scotland finally spoke and buried the narrow aspirations of separatism…
Is the US trying to push the EU into war with Russia? It’s starting to look like it…
Now that the referendum is over, the focus of the media has leapfrogged the coming months and focused on the general election. Nothing else is held to be relevant.
Unison members in the NHS in England are to be called on to take part in a four-hour strike on 13 October for more pay. But after that, what?
People who work in health know that low levels of service provision over the weekend put patients’ lives in danger. The problem is how to move to 7-day provision while preserving wages and conditions…
A Glasgow concert for unity formed part of the campaign to keep Britain together by promoting the No vote in the Scottish referendum.
The government wants to integrate the emergency services. The unions involved know what this really means: cuts in services, jobs and standards.
Many unions are opposing the proposed transatlantic trade and investment treaty – while supporting the EU and endorsing its exclusive right to negotiate TTIP on our behalf.
The government is sponsoring a series of television adverts against slavery in Britain. The domestic servant, the farm hands, the sweat shop labourers, the sex worker etc. The great unsaid, but obvious from the presentations, is that these modern-day slaves are migrant workers.
The level of workers categorised as self-employed has reached its highest level in Britain for over 40 years according to the Office for National Statistics.
