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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘Public Service Cuts’
#OccupyLSX – what role for unions?
Oct 17th, 2011 by Union News.As the LondonStockExchange occupation began, a dispute over 43 locked-out Sotheby’s art handlers in New York had won the active support of the #OccupyWallStreet movement. Could a similar link emerge in the UK? Video, reporting by Pete Murray
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OccupyLSX – and police ‘kettling’
Oct 17th, 2011 by Ann Pettifor.On Saturday, I spent a frustrating afternoon trying to honour a commitment to the organisers of the above demo, to address the crowd on the steps of St. Pauls’ Cathedral. Got there at about 2.45 p.m to find that all avenues into the square on Ludgate Hill in front of St. Pauls were blocked by […]
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Unemployment – a price not worth paying
Oct 14th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.The awful rise in joblessness, so long expected, is now under way – not from a base of a million as in the 1980s, but upwards now from a very high platform of 2.5 million already. Yet the Commons exchanges debating this yesterday were disappointing. Osborne, summoning himself up to his full stature of smug […]
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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 […]
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Talks start to avert November strikes
Sep 21st, 2011 by Andy Newman.GMB will attend talks tomorrow with council leaders on the dispute about the future of Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) which covers two million workers in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. These are the first talks since unions announced plans to ballot members for strike action if Government press ahead with changes to public […]
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What’s the worst the Lib Dems have done?
Sep 20th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.What is it? The worst thing? Lying about student fees? Continuing to sell out on the NHS? Not for me. It’s the economy stupid. Making Labour the scapegoat for the deficit instead of facing up to the problem. Cameron couldn’t have done it without them. And now they’ve bounced along the bottom in the polls […]
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Left party makes gains in Latvia
Sep 19th, 2011 by Andy Newman.Yesterday’s election in Latvia is more than a curiosity for two reasons; firstly that Latvia has been the poster-child state for austerity, with political claims made that the Latvian population have supported huge spending cuts; and secondly that Latvia is one of the few parts of the former USSR to now be part of the EU.
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If the Tories don’t budge, Labour must support strike action
Sep 15th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.The unemployment figures are terrible – up 80,000 in the last 3 months to over 2.5m – and for Cameron lamely to call them ‘disappointing’ is an insult when his own government’s cuts are mainly responsible. And there is clearly a lot worse to come – with women’s joblessness fast approaching a quarter-century high, youth […]
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Under attack by a feral ruling class
Sep 11th, 2011 by Newsdesk.Speaking ahead of this year’s Trades Union Congress, the leader of the country’s biggest union, Unite, warned that government’s continued attacks on working people – including the attacks on public sector pensions – will provoke unrest. Len McCluskey said we are”under attack by a government with no mandate and a feral ruling class that is being […]
