Category Archives: Labour Party

IPPR warns of double dip recession and bleak 2012

The UK risks a bleak 2012 and falling back into recession as a result of the Coalition’s austerity measures and the crisis in the eurozone, the IPPR has warned. The Institute for Public Policy Research which advises more than 30 … Continue reading

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Manufacturers still fear a double-dip recession in 2012

Despite the tiny increase in growth in domestic production the UK economy – due to adjusted figures(pdf) from the Office for National Statistics (O.6 per cent, from 0.5 per cent) for the third quarter of 2011, manufacturers are still worried a double-dip recession … Continue reading

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Argos Agency Workers Protest Against Swedish Derogation

Agency workers at Argos in Burton on Trent, Staffordshire demonstrated on 22nd  December against ‘pay apartheid’ which sees their pay packets up to £120-a-week lighter than their full-time colleagues. Workers employed by Adecco, held whistle-blowing demonstration at the Argos site … Continue reading

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Time Magazine: Person Of The Year 2011: The Protester

BY RICK STENGEL History often emerges only in retrospect. Events become significant only when looked back on. No one could have known that when a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire in a public square in a town barely on … Continue reading

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Extension on consultation gives further time for negotiations at BAe Systems

The extension of the 90 day consultation period over the threat to 2,300 BAE Systems jobs in Wharton, Salmsbury in Lancashire and Brough in Yorkshire has been welcomed by Unite. Unite’s national officer for Aerospace and Shipbuilding, Ian Waddell said: ‘This … Continue reading

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Union News Interview with John Hendy QC on Employment Rights

The excellent website UnionNews interviews John Hendy QC, barrister to the trade union movement, who has just received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Liberty “in recognition of a career dedicated to defending and upholding the rights of workers and trade … Continue reading

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Public Service Pensions: Unite Update on Government’s ‘False Timetables and ‘Final Offers’

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LCDTU launches new website

The Liaison Committee For The Defence Of Trade Unions has launched a re-vamped website and it can now be found by clicking here. The LCDTU blogspot will remain up until the end of January. LCDTU Secretary Barry Camfield has been … Continue reading

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Last few days: Special reduced price for ‘Goodbye Barcelona’

 In 1936 a Fascism sweeps across Europe, one country reaches out in its hour of need and thousands of ordinary people make an extraordinary decision to help. Mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, they travel to Spain from all over the … Continue reading

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Anti Union Tory MP sacked by Cameron for attending “Nazi” stag do and paying for SS uniform

Tory MP Aiden Burley, chairman of the anti-union Trade Union Reform Campaign has been sacked for offensive behavior after attending a stag party in France where guests dressed as Nazis. One of  Burley’s upper class chums donned a replica SS … Continue reading

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