Part of the DODS Group DODS Group Logo
Menu

Login to access your account

Forgotten your password?
Sat, 11 July 2020

Personalise Your Politics

Subscribe now
Search

Follow us:

Articles tagged with: Trade Unions
Member content
Coronavirus
By Unite
Unite’s Len McCluskey on chancellor’s summer statement
No gimmicks, no spin – people wanted serious action to protect their jobs and incomes and on a scale up to the enormous test before our country.
Boris Johnson says he wants a Roosevelt-style coronavirus recovery. If he’s serious he’ll give unions a seat at the table
Coronavirus
By Frances O'Grady
Boris Johnson says he wants a Roosevelt-style coronavirus recovery. If he’s serious he’ll give unions a seat at the table
A post Covid ‘New Deal’ could provide 1.24 million jobs – but it also needs to tackle systemic racism, youth unemployment and low pay, says the TUC boss.
Labour grandee Lord Blunkett says teachers’ unions ‘working against the interests of children’ in row over June reopening plan
Coronavirus
Labour grandee Lord Blunkett says teachers’ unions ‘working against the interests of children’ in row over June reopening plan
Teaching unions opposed to the Government’s plan to get some primary schools back open on June 1 are “working against the interests of children”, former Labour education secretary Lord Blunkett has declared.
Mental health issues top of workers' lockdown concerns Member content
Coronavirus
By Unite
Mental health issues top of workers' lockdown concerns
A survey by Unite, the UK and Ireland’s largest union, has found that workers’ concerns about their mental health have increased dramatically since the lockdown began.
Class sizes capped at 15 as government eyes June return of primary schools amid union fury
Coronavirus
Class sizes capped at 15 as government eyes June return of primary schools amid union fury
Class sizes will be capped at 15 pupils under Government plans to reopen schools in June “at the earliest”.
The Breakfast Briefing: Back-to-work row, Boris’s Commons statement - and Nicola Sturgeon’s fury
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: Back-to-work row, Boris’s Commons statement - and Nicola Sturgeon’s fury
Your essential guide to what’s moving in Westminster this morning from the PoliticsHome team
Unions warn they will tell workers to stay home unless safety demands are met
Coronavirus
Unions warn they will tell workers to stay home unless safety demands are met
Four of the UK’s largest unions have warned they will tell their three million members to stay home unless the government commits to a health and safety overhaul.
Coronavirus
By NASUWT
Filipino Trade Unionist receives NASUWT International Solidarity Award
The NASUWT – the Teachers’ Union, has today presented its International Solidarity Award 2020 to Raymond Basilio, Secretary General of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) in the Philippines.
Coronavirus: unions warn they cannot support government back-to-work guidance ‘thrown together in a hurry’
Coronavirus
Coronavirus: unions warn they cannot support government back-to-work guidance ‘thrown together in a hurry’
Guidance aimed at getting some British firms back to work during the coronavirus pandemic appears to have been “thrown together in a hurry”, a major trade union has warned.
Coronavirus: Unions demand 'tough new safety measures' for workers before lockdown restrictions lifted
Coronavirus
Coronavirus: Unions demand 'tough new safety measures' for workers before lockdown restrictions lifted
Unions are demanding "tough new measures" be put in place to protect workers returning to their jobs before coronavirus lockdown restrictions are lifted.
Hold public inquiry into ‘grotesque failure’ of PPE for health workers, unions urge
Coronavirus
Hold public inquiry into ‘grotesque failure’ of PPE for health workers, unions urge
The TUC has called for a public inquiry into what it calls the “grotesque” failure to provide adequate personal protective equipment for frontline coronavirus workers.
Brits urged to join minute's silence for frontline workers killed by the coronavirus
Coronavirus
Brits urged to join minute's silence for frontline workers killed by the coronavirus
People in Britain have been urged to join a minute's silence for all frontline workers killed during the coronavirus outbreak.