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Posting of Workers Directive: Commission’s text needs to be “substantially amended”
“A growing number of posted workers in the European Union are victims of social dumping. More than 15 years after the first Posting of Workers Directive and after numerous rulings by the Court of Justice in Luxembourg, the time has … Continue reading
Wisconsin Judge Kicks Out Walker’s Anti Union Laws
WXOW News 19 La Crosse, WI – News, Weather and Sports | A Wisconsin judge has struck a blow for organised labour in the USA when he struck down key sections of right wing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s controversial anti … Continue reading
Salford searches for its workers’ ‘invisible histories’
One of the great institutions of northern England is the Working Class Movement Library in Salford whose collections are a treasure trove of social and labour history. Staff there are now seeking to add to these by means of a … Continue reading
A Wasted Week Vince……
For a man who said that pure laissez-faire economics does not work, Vince Cable’s recent proposals for a British `business bank’ and watered down employment protection are dangerously laid back. While at Unite we welcome the recognition of the need for a new institution to … Continue reading
Time for our leaders to face up to the facts: Austerity is killing jobs and the recovery
The European Trade Union Congress – the umbrella group for EU trade unions and union federations – has called upon politicians, EU officials, academics and employers meeting this week in Brussels to face up to the failure of austerity programmes across Europe and … Continue reading
Kerching! Download your copy of the gossip magazine for celeb tax dodgers
Ahead of next weeks Congress the TUC has published Kerching! – a celebrity gossip style magazine – aimed at embarrassing the Coalition government into taking action against celebrity and sports star tax dodgers. Kerching! A Celebrity Guide to Tax Dodging lists the top … Continue reading
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German style mini jobs will create low paid ghetto’s
In a blog posted on the Liasion Committee For The Defence Of Trade Unions website Unite’s Adrian Weir flags up proposals by the extreme right wing Conservative Free Enterprise Group pushing the idea of the introduction of German style low … Continue reading
Report warns of UK manufacturing skills shortage
A recent report, published by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), says that a fifth of job vacancies in manufacturing firms in the Midlands and the North West of England remain unfilled because of a lack of skilled … Continue reading
Why More Austerity Is On the Way
The Coalition Government as well as the main representatives of business (BCC, IoD, CBI) are all calling for more austerity measures despite the fact that the economy is contracting and the deficit is rising. By Michael Burke The latest monthly … Continue reading
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TUC hits back at Government raising state retirement age
The TUC has said that over half a million people approaching the state pension age are now too ill to work raising fears that the situation will get worse as the state pension age continues to rise. Disability and poor health … Continue reading