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Union ban in Plymouth could be only the start
Despite changes to employment law since 1997, trade unionmembers still have fewer rights to take industrial action than they had in1906, according to the TUC. The past week has seen those rights...
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Care workers pay row goes to Supreme Court
Much has been spoken and written this week about the genderpay gap at executive level and the unlikelihood of it closing for at least 100years. So it is with impeccable timing that a pay battle at...
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Public sector strikers deserve more than Miliband’s sympathy
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has let EdMiliband off the hook with his comment that he does not expect the Labourleader to join striking workers on the picket lines this autumn. Phew, that...
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Care workers celebrate equal pay victory
The care workers’ equal pay dispute in Sheffield looks to beover with the city council agreeing to recompense about 1,100 staff, a groupthat also includes cleaners and dinner ladies. Sheffield, armed...
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Doncaster Council’s threats to staff and the Miliband factor
Labour leader Ed Miliband came in for some flak two monthsago when he told trade union members caught up in the local government pensionsdispute that they should desist from striking during...
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Don’t strike on 30 November, take a coffee break
Industrial action and the Conservatives are not naturalbedfellows, notwithstanding (pictured drinking water) education secretary Michael Gove’s appearance on apicket line in a former life as a...
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Social worker poised for Xmas number one?
Someone ought to have told the TUC that the inviolable CliffRichard (pictured discovering atheism) had a god-given right to an annual crack at the Christmas number one. Short of The Pogues coming up...
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More reasons to strike on 30 November
Many public sector employees, including social workers,can only dream of the prospect of a 2.3% pay rise. That is the going rate,according to figures from IDSPay.co.uk, published on Left Foot Forward...
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30 November: Francis Maude counts the cost…selectively
As a Conservative, it is natural that Cabinet secretary Francis Maude (pictured getting the beers in) would speakout against the public sector workers’ pensions strike on 30 November. Last week he...
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Strike: An inconvenient truth for Michael Gove
Education secretary Michael Gove (pictured looking his best) was absolutely correctyesterday to highlight the inconvenience caused to families by public sectorworkers who will strike in their millions...
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