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Central Line strike In a disgraceful attempt to smear the recent ASLEF strike on London’s Underground, Osborne’s Evening Standard published an attack piece yesterday that claimed pay rises were “wasted” on train drivers. The divide-and-rule…
Our Tory anti-union laws represent one of the foremost constraints preventing working-class people from winning better conditions at work and making gains in wider politics. That’s why at this year’s Labour Party conference I’ll be speaking…
Firefighters have had a busy start to this year and there will be no let up in the pressure. Fire Brigades Union (FBU) members were out during the bad weather in recent weeks. They have dealt with storms and floods, tragic domestic fires…
This is an extract from the speech delivered by John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor at the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) conference yesterday in Blackpool. I'm delighted to be speaking here today after the FBU took the historic decision to…
A splinter organisation from Momentum, which was formed following a dispute with the Corbynista pressure group, has elected a team of officials to provide "an organised left on the ground". Grassroots Momentum chose a committee - including…
The Tory government doesn’t care about the fire and rescue service. If it did, it wouldn’t have slashed 7,000 frontline firefighter posts, closed around 40 fire stations and scrapped scores of fire engines since 2010. The last recorded year…
The Fire Brigades Union have today voted to affiliate to the Labour Party - 11 years after breaking off ties. The decision was made at a special conference in Blackpool. The news that the union, which has 38,000 members, wants to rebuild…
The Fire Brigades' Union (FBU) have announced that they will hold a special conference on November 27th to decide whether to affiliate to the Labour Party. The union voted heavily in favour of disaffiliating from the party in 2004…
UPDATE 16.38: Jeremy Corbyn has this afternoon reportedly secured the endorsement of a fourth trade union, the RMT. Again, the union is not affiliated to Labour, so it will be interesting to see how these endorsements work practically. Will…
Politics and statistics have long had a chequered relationship. It’s one of the reasons people tend not to trust politicians as much as politicians would like. However, when – as the government is currently doing over changes to firefighter…
After dozens of strike actions, Labour MPs have made a renewed attempt to resolve the dispute over pensions for firefighters. Hilary Benn and Lyn Brown have written to Fire Minister Penny Mordaunt, criticising her behaviour, saying: "You…
This week, I was accused by a Tory politician of using language from the 1960s when I – and other Labour colleagues on the London Fire Authority - used the term ‘lockout’. This was in relation to proposals in a paper we were legally…
