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Prentis issues response to budget
23.04.09
UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis responded to Alistair Darling’s budget today, saying that it “revealed the extent of the damage done to the economy and public finances by the greed and irresponsibility of the under-regulated financial sector.”
» ReadRail unions crisis summit
23.04.09
A rail “jobs and fares” crisis summit will be held next Tuesday between Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon and Britain’s three main rail unions.
» ReadUK citizens are paying the price
22.04.09
UK citizens are paying the price for an unregulated market which has given us this ‘Banksters Recession’
» ReadBudget is just the job – Usdaw
22.04.09
Shopworkers’ union, Usdaw, is hailing today’s budget as a real help to the unemployed.
» ReadUnite’s reaction to the Budget
22.04.09
Unite’s joint general secretary, Derek Simpson said: “Alistair Darling had to deliver the toughest budget in decades but he has positioned Labour as the party for jobs and social justice while exposing the Tories for being the party of cuts and inequality…. ”
» ReadGovernment pledges no NHS cuts in recession
22.04.09
“Better healthcare cannot be seen as expendable today because of the global economic downturn, when in yesterday’s world of relative prosperity, it was essential,” health secretary Alan Johnson told UNISON’s health conference in Harrogate.
» ReadAttempt to deny asbestos victims justice
22.04.09
Construction union UCATT have reacted furiously to the decision of several large insurance companies to try to block compensation for pleural plaques victims in Scotland.
» ReadUCATT welcomes committment to housing
22.04.09
Construction union UCATT have given a cautious welcome to measures announced in today’s budget to kick-start housebuilding.
» ReadUnite statement on Jack Jones
22.04.09
“It is with the greatest sadness that I must advise you that Jack Jones, former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, died late yesterday.
We have lost the greatest trade unionist of the entire post-war era, a man whose name will be forever associated with the finest achievements and highest values of our movement. Indeed, the entire history of trade unionism in Britain yields few comparable figures.”
Put manufacturing at the heart of the Budget
20.04.09
Unions and employers are united in demanding that Wednesday’s budget should contain measures to save the jobs of hundreds of thousands of manufacturing workers through the implementation of short time working compensation schemes.
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