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Today Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan will outline how the next Labour government would go about addressing economic inequality in the UK. Following an article in the The Mirror in May, in which he called for Labour to be bold when it…
The attempt to stem the number of working class voters switching to UKIP by highlighting their right wing ideology stepped up a gear today with a new attack poster. Launched by Unions Together, the campaigning wing of the Labour-affiliated…
The GMB have already cut their affiliation fees to Labour by £1 million as a result of Ed Miliband's party reform proposals. Are Unite about to do likewise? The Guardian reports this morning: Unite, Labour's biggest affiliated union, is to…
There are a few things that we know for certain about the Labour Party’s relationship with its trade union affiliates this TUC conference week. We are where we are, despite the recent announcements about the Falkirk selection. Ed Miliband…
When Ed Miliband announced his plans to change union affiliations to the Labour Party from from "opt out" to "opt in", there was speculation that this could cost the party millions each year if only 10% of trade unionists chose to become…
The GMB has announced this morning that as of January 1st 2014, they will be paying £150,000 a year in affiliation fees to the Labour Party - rather than the £1.2 million that the union currently pays. That represents the union affiliating…
GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny told the Today Programme this morning that: "I think, anticipating, that we will now have to ballot our members, so we can comply with what Ed wants, I think we’d be lucky if 10% of our current affiliation…
Britain’s increasingly hysterical media caravan pitched on to new territory, hoping that the Falkirk row, and Ed Miliband’s ‘mend it – don’t break it’ speech would presage an incipient Labour civil war. It hasn’t, so far, and I suspect that…
What do Southend, Ramsgate, Grimsby and Blackpool have in common? Score a point if you say that they are all on the coast but actually real answer is that they're all fed up to the back teeth of austerity. Just days before the government's…
Speaking at their National Congress today, GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny said that if David Cameron was successful in having the UK opt-out of social and employment rights legislation, his union would advocate a British exit from Europe…
The gross opportunism of the government - using a lobbying crisis to try and clamp down on the unions - has received an understandably robust response from several unions already this evening. Unite attacked the plans as a "grotesque…
Lord Mandelson, or Baron Mandelson of Foy, as he should be referred to since he was packed off to the House of Lords by a small cabal, recently accused the Unite union of ‘manipulating selection procedures’ in the Labour Party. He went on…
