According to the Government’s ‘housing strategy’ paper to be announced today, the Tories are about to build some houses. So far, so good, though quite a surprise since in this last year housing completions shrank to their lowest level since 1923. But let’s not look a gift horse in the mouth. According to Cameron, it […]
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Twenty-six unions preparing to strike
Nov 18th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Twenty-fivesix unions are now preparing to strike on November 30, RMT being the latest union to announce a ballot result. Full details of their balloting reslts are set out below.Only the Prisoners Officers Association who are balloting secure psychiatric workers employed in the health service, has not yet announced its ballot result – due on […]
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Why Labour people should back “the Great Strike”
Nov 18th, 2011 by Owen Jones.The Great Strike is less than two weeks away. From headteachers to lollipop ladies, care assistants to university lecturers, hundreds of thousands of workers are set to take part in the biggest co-ordinated industrial action since the 1926 General Strike. The Labour leadership is highly unlikely to back the strike: the best that can be […]
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We want pensions justice
Nov 17th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Thank you to Brendan Barber and the TUC for a fine video.
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Resounding ‘Yes’ votes for pension strike
Nov 16th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.With the announcement of UCATT and GMB votes in support of strike action on 30 November, the support for action has been overwhelming in every case. The GMB voted 84% in favour on a 33% turnout across many thousands of employers. The Building workers (UCATT) voted by almost the same margin on a slightly lower […]
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Public Sector Pensions: the Government’s on the run, but must go further and faster
Nov 8th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Until the Unison ballot result (nine-tenths in favour of strike action on 30 November, just 3 weeks away), the Government was intending to force public sector workers to pay 50% more into their pension schemes for a pension which would be worth 50% less and for which they would have to work much longer. The […]
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Why the government’s pensions offer is not enough
Nov 4th, 2011 by Newsdesk.In this guide to separating the fact from the fiction in the government’s pensions offer earlier this week, the PCS tests direct quotes from Treasury secretary Danny Alexander’s statement in the House of Commons against the reality. You can also read a fuller guide to the issues involved in the pamphlet – Fair Pensions for […]
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Pensions: the power of the strike threat
Nov 2nd, 2011 by David Osler.Whether or not the Coalition’s latest proposals on public sector pensions constitute ‘a very fair offer’ – as David Cameron insists – is a question best left to those with sounder knowledge of actuarial principles than I shall ever acquire. Yet one thing is immediately clear. No improvements whatsoever would be on the table without […]
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Reasons to vote for strike action on public sector pensions
Oct 23rd, 2011 by Michael Meacher.This week, 1.1 million members of Unison received their ballot papers asking them if they supported strike action in the event of the Government remaining fixed in their position that public service employees must pay more towards their pension, work further years before drawing their pension, and finally receive a smaller pension than had been […]
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Labour Conference to agree Balls line on strikes
Sep 22nd, 2011 by Jon Lansman.There is little doubt that Labour Party conference will agree to back the line argued by Ed Balls on the public sector pension strikes – representing the union case as reasonable and pinning al the blame on the government for the threat of strike acton. The clear implication is that, if strikes happen because of […]
