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PCS members and supporters are being asked to take urgent action to stop cuts to the benefits of the people who need them most.

In his statement to mark 2012 Holocaust Memorial Day, Labour leader Ed Miliband says that this year’s message - ’Speak Up and Speak Out’ - is one which we must all take to heart and commit to act...

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came...

Taxpayers' Alliance compensation figures distract from real policing picture Commenting on figures released by the TaxPayers' Alliance, which show that £12 million has been paid out to injured police staff since 2006, Ben Priestley, UNISON’s national officer for police staff, said:“The police do a...

The latest figures from the USA show that [...]

CBI Industrial Trends Survey In January, domestic and [...]

For those of us who come from the printing industry (thirty years ago!) this is worth checking out……brought a tear to my eye! “Linotype: The Film” Official Trailer from...

The vote for the worlds worst corporation is in and the results are no surprise to trade union members throughout the world and especially those in the USA and Canada. Brazilian mining giant Vale has...

Barack Obama put American manufacturing at the top of the agenda in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night this week - and slammed US companies who had outsourced jobs in a ‘’race to the...

I spoke at a packed Labour Party meeting in Streatham Hill last night along with James Mills from the Unite Parliamentary Branch and Ben Lyons from the Intern Aware campaign.  Local Labour’s...

I suppose it’s inevitable given the combination of [...]

Burma has seen many dramatic moves toward democracy [...]

Last night’s results in the Salford Mayor referendum are alarming and should act as a wake-up call to trade unionists everywhere. Just 18.1% of the total eligible electorate voted in the referendum...

The good news is, this year the European Union officially banned the use of battery cages in egg producing farms. The bad news is, 30 British egg producers were found to still be using these cages...

Barnet UNISON are balloting for a further round of strike action to prevent the wholesale privatisation of Council services in their borough. Send the branch messages of support via the website www.barnetunison.me.uk. During previous strike action when members of the branch finished their picket...

Richard Lambert, former head of the CBI, highlights research saying it's basically a waste of time - One answer comes in the latest Harvard Business Review in an article by two professors at Warwick Business School (full disclosure: I am chancellor of Warwick University). They argue that...

World leaders’ gather in Davos this year knowing that disaster is still able to sweep them all away. Whilst the world's workers and their families suffer the global austerity measures - the political...

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, an event to remember those who died in Nazi atrocities in Europe and in genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia and Darfur.