Why teachers need our support
Yesterday the NASUWT and NUT, which together represent more than 80% of teachers, announced plans for a possible…
Unions
How can unions give more people the power they need to get what they want?
The latest figures on Trade Union membership released at the end of April were sobering reading for trade…
Why Labour should stick with the “opt-out” for union members
As an ex-General Secretary of the Labour Party, Peter Watt is insightful and thoughtful on the challenge of…
Ed Miliband has saved the union link
Ed Miliband saved Labour’s historic link with the trade union movement today. That might sound like a bit…
Stand firm, Ed
Let’s get a couple of things straight first. This is not a post somehow arguing to somehow “break…
Trade unions need to articulate a compelling vision of a new kind of economy
The ink is barely dry on the Chancellor’s “audacious gamble” of a Budget and already the OECD is…
Ministers secretly want a tanker drivers strike
Calling a COBRA meeting has always been the last refuge of a desperate government. Gordon Brown used to…
Maude has made a cross-party consensus on funding less likely, not more…
Francis Maude had an opportunity to come to the house this afternoon and begin the process of dealing…
When Boris met Bob
Earlier this week Boris Johnson spoke to the Evening Standard. In a fawning interview with the paper, the…
Senior Labour figures distance themselves from potential Olympic disruption
Senior Labour figures have come out against the suggestion from Unite’s Len McCluskey that there was the potential…
