The Government are effectively creating state-sponsored blacklisting
This week my union UCATT announced that it had secured compensation worth £5.6 million for 71 of our…
Trade Unions
TU Bill an onslaught on civil liberties
The Human Rights dimension of the campaign against the Trade Union Bill received a fillip this week from…
I love unions. Why doesn’t everyone else?
I love unions. Of course I do – I started my apprenticeship in 1989 and joined the trade…
The Trade Union Bill is an attack on union campaigning and the Labour Party
We are witnessing a full-scale attack by the Conservative government on the campaigning work of the trade union…
Tories ready to offer concessions on Trade Union Bill after Labour fight
Labour peers and Welsh Assembly Members could be on course to secure a major victory in the fight…
The Tory Government threatens to push British workers’ rights to the bottom of the European league table
“Nothing is off the table”. This was David Cameron’s thinly-veiled attack in 2013 at the beginning of the…
Cameron underestimates the labour movement. We will fight on despite the Trade Union Bill
Teaching assistants. Cleaners. Nurses. Care workers. Lollipop ladies. Hardly a list of the people our society should want…
Former Head of the Civil Service criticises government plan to cut party funding
Lord Kerslake, former Head of the Civil Service (2012-2014), has criticised the Government’s plans to cut Short money…
The Tory Trade Union Bill is an unnecessary, undemocratic and unfair attack on working people
Starting on Monday 8th, the TUC will be running #HeartUnions week; seven days of action to celebrate the…
Labour now expect to take £8 million funding hit from Trade Union Bill
New internal Labour analysis predicts that the party now stands to lose as much as £8 million in…
