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The March edition of the Unite National newsletter is here....

The TUC is a supporter of the Anywhere [...]

The European Union’s leaders are gathering in Brussels [...]

In case any readers of this blog thought that the local government employers were unfeeling as they refuse once more to make a pay award, although prices have now risen by 13% since they last did so, I thought I should share with you the following extract from Tuesday's letter from the...

Rob Johnston, Midlands TUC Regional SecretaryCommenting on the latest public sector employment figures published today (Thursday) by the Office for National Statistics, Midlands TUC Regional...

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While the Welfare Reform bill may have been [...]

There has been widespread coverage of high US [...]

RAIL UNION RMT confirmed today that in order to allow for further negotiations to try and resolve the pay dispute with Initial on the Eurostar contract, the following strike action has been suspended:- · 06:00 hours on Thursday 1st March 2012 until 05:59 hours on Saturday 3rd March 2012 RMT members...

Great to see so many activists and members of the SOS campaign group gather outside the Town Hall last night to protest against the savage cuts imposed by the government and implemented by the Labour...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that getting an email bulletin about pensions negotiations should be a cause of concern to anyone with an interest in their welfare in old age. Yesterday's UNISON Focus is a case in point. First, because our negotiators appear to have reached a tentative...

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Yesterday the Commons spent 90 minutes debating ‘union funding’, a pretext for some Tory MPs to attack trade union facility time in the public sector. Aside from many excellent interventions by...

Today is St Davids Day - the feast day of the patron Saint of Wales. Well done to Google for changing their doodle to a Welsh theme for the day.

Today the TUC has published ‘Generation Lost‘ (written [...]

PCS members in the public sector are taking part in a consultative ballot that will decide the direction of the union's campaign to defend jobs, pay and pensions.

A PCS member's petition against changes to the way pensions are calculated has topped 110,000 signatures on the day it is to be debated by Members of Parliament.

Picture right is of West Ham Labour Party phone bank volunteers about to start calling people this evening in our headquarters in Stratford. On left is Mark Lewis who with Alan Griffiths has set up the weekly phone bank. Then our ringer London Assembly member, John Biggs in middle, then yet another...