Get asbestos out of schools!
23 April 2025
A new campaign aims to build support for removing all asbestos from schools without more delay.
Health and safety
Health and safety
Glasgow marks Workers Memorial Day
30 April 2020
Glasgow Trades Union Council marked Workers Memorial Day on 28 April by taking part in the Britain-wide “one-minute silence” tribute to those who have died in the health and caring professions during the current crisis.
Death toll at work
21 August 2017
A total of 137 workers were killed at work between April 2016 and March 2017, with construction, agriculture and waste/recycling most dangerous areas by far.
Honour and dishonour at Woolwich ferry
10 July 2017
It is honourable that a new Woolwich ferries will be named after Ben Woollacott, the 19-year-old deckhand killed in a mooring accident in 2011 – but other factors associated with the new ferry are less so.
Legal attack on injury claims
10 April 2017
The government is now changing the rules for compensation for injury by the sleight of hand of increasing the small claims court limits.