Schools at risk of staff exodus over low pay, UNISON warns
As thousands of UK schools take part in today’s ‘Stars in our Schools’ in celebration of support staff, a report shows the intense financial struggle of school employees on low pay.
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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, November 2021
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UnionDues: Doctors’ union finds strength in its members’ patients
Tom Grinyer, chief executive of the BMA, is the special guest in the latest UnionDues podcast
Unions must have a role in government’s plans to ‘build back better’ says TUC
With Britain facing a cost-of-living crisis, Frances O’Grady is calling on the chancellor to work with unions and focus the Spending Review on improving pay and conditions.
Green Party conference votes to support £15 minimum wage
The Greens have backed the BFAWU’s ‘Fight for 15’ campaign
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, October 2021
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What the TUC Congress showed about climate change and trade unions
‘It is vital that trade unions can have these debates and arrive at a position that works for workers in the long-term.’
Weetabix engineers strike over fire and rehire plans that could see them lose up to £5,000 a year in wages
‘Last year Weetabix’s profits went up by almost 20% to more than £81 million’.
Keir Starmer faces growing backlash over plans to scrap Labour leadership rules that got Corbyn elected
Starmer has put forward proposals to scrap Labour’s one-member-one-vote approach to party leadership elections, where every party member’s vote had equal value, in favour of an electoral college, in which MPs would have greater say.
What to expect from the Labour conference: Division and a lack of clarity from Starmer
‘Starmer has not been the unifying leader many had envisaged, nor has he continued to advocate for the ten pledges he put to the membership a mere eighteen months ago.’