Gerard Coyne: No more shelf stacking apprenticeships to exploit the young – let’s have real industrial partnerships instead
When is an apprenticeship not an apprenticeship? When it’s an excuse for big companies to employ young people…
Unions
The chancellor forgot Brexit, our biggest challenge – trade unions react to Budget
In today’s budget chancellor Philip Hammond unveiled a hike in national insurance contributions for the self-employed, but neglected…
Are the self-employed being asked to pay for Brexit? Labour reactions to Budget
With the chancellor Philip Hammond today giving his first, and last spring Budget, in which he has unveiled…
WASPI workers lobby parliament amid International Women’s day rallies
Jeremy Corbyn has joined a shadow minister and a trade union leader in a show of support for…
“A betrayal of tens of thousands of women” – Corbyn’s message to WASPI protesters
This is Jeremy Corbyn’s full statement to the WASPI women campaigning in parliament today, on International Women’s day.…
Unite: Whatever Hammond says today, the Tories refuse to reverse the cuts hitting women and the poor the hardest
As the chancellor, Philip Hammond, gets ready to deliver his Budget today, he would do well to remember…
Len McCluskey: As the Tories press on with brutal austerity, the crisis in our public services can no longer be contained
The omens ahead of tomorrow’s Budget are not good. Last week the business select committee warned that the…
McCluskey leads the way in nominations to be Unite general secretary
Len McCluskey has opened up a substantial lead over his rivals in branch nominations for the Unite general secretary…
Owen Smith: With car industry jobs at risk, are we seeing the true cost of Brexit?
Perhaps, looking back, we’ll see that this was the week when the true cost of Brexit started to…
Trade union leaders tell Corbyn to raise his game after shock Copeland defeat
Trade union bosses have told Jeremy Corbyn to take responsibility for last night’s election defeat and to lead…
