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Help lobby your MP over the scale and pace of cuts coming in the Comprehensive Spending Review

With over 20,000 people in the UK killed prematurely by their work every year, making the case for safety at work is as important as ever.

All Together for Public Services. TUC campaign against cuts to public spending and services

TUC co-ordinated campaign against proposed public services cuts

Book a place at the TUC briefing on the comprehensive spending review. Find out more here...

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Young review is a grave disappointment, says TUC

The TUC today (Friday) expressed disappointment at the outcome of Lord Young's review of health and safety published this morning.

15 October 2010

Unfair benefit rulings are another attack by Government on the poor, says TUC

The TUC reveals new evidence today (Friday) that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is moving people from Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) to Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) purely to save money, even though the individuals are not fit enough to return to work.

15 October 2010

Government cull is bad news for farm workers

The abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board is an act of political spite for which the l...

14 October 2010

Quango cull will reduce democratic accountability of state

Commenting on the announcement today (Thursday) that the Government will abolish 192 publi...

14 October 2010

North East Women to Hardest Hit in England by Public Spending Cuts

With one week to go before the Government Comprehensive Spending Review, new figures show ...

14 October 2010

Risks 478 - 16 October 2010

Health and safety newsletter 16 October 2010

Caroline Lucas MP - speech to Alliances for Green Growth, 11/10/2010

The more that we can unite around the idea of a Green recovery and the money needed to achieve it, the less excuse there will be if they fail to take this chance. And the more likely it will be that we can recognise the real win-win of investing in green measures and technologies – that we get our emissions down and increase radically the number of jobs in our economy.

Conference Report: Alliances for Green Growth, 11 October 2010

200 delegates took part in the TUC's annual climate change conference, Alliances for Green...

Fighting the cuts to health and safety

Health and safety funding is under threat from the cuts being proposed by the coalition go...

How to lobby your MP on health and safety

This is a guide to lobbying your MP at their surgery on the cuts that are proposed on the ...

Frances O'Grady, speech TUC Green Growth conference, 11/10/2010

The TUC Deputy General Secretary, told delegates that the TUC wants to work with Ministers...

How unions help … two great cases in this week’s news

If confronted by some cliched ridden dinosaur telling you that unions have no place in the modern world of work and achieve nothing, helpfully point them in the way of...

Stronger unions: on 15 Oct 2010 by Matt

Young Review: Predictable, but still a disappointment

After much anticipation, Lord Young’s review’s of health and safety is out this morning. His recommendations are as predictable (indeed every bit as predictable as we’d predicted), but they still manage to be a grave disappointment all the same. The report contains not a single proposal that will reduce the high levels of workplace death, [...]

ToUChstone: on 15 Oct 2010 by Brendan Barber

Andrew Mitchell outlines a development agenda we can work with

ToUChstone: on 15 Oct 2010 by Owen Tudor

Web links for 14th October 2010

ToUChstone: on 14 Oct 2010 by ToUChstoneblog

Government limits higher rate tax relief on pensions

ToUChstone: on 14 Oct 2010 by Nigel Stanley

Nestle: when morals are commercially confidential

Stronger unions: on 13 Oct 2010 by Owen