Showing posts with label unions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unions. Show all posts
Saturday, 13 May 2017

£100bn a year is missing from our high streets thanks to 50 years of pay squeezes

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A pound’s worth of product is not worth a pound when you’ve made it. It’s worth a pound when someone has bought it. That’s why Britain need...
Saturday, 7 January 2017

It's Fat Cat Wednesday! FTSE bosses have already earned the average UK wage just two-and-a-half days into the working year

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"Fat Cat Wednesday 2017"   by the High Pay Centre Welcome back to work. FTSE100 bosses will have already clocked up an av...
Tuesday, 3 November 2015

An NHS doctors strike will make it only the second time in 40 years. Both under Cameron

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SOURCE BBC NEWS : BMA refuses to re-enter contract talks The British Medical Association said the contract was not safe or fair a...
Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Trade Union Bill: New 50% turnout law for strike ballots may backfire on the Tories, as 3m working poor get poorer

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SOURCE INDEPENDENT : Trade Union Bill - All Scottish councils say they will ignore controversial new law All 32 Scottish councils wil...
Tuesday, 12 August 2014

Why do the Tories want to privatise the successful state-owned East Coast Mainline? The clue is in the question

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Sunday, 3 August 2014

Graphs at a glance: Are the improving unemployment figures all they seem to be? Dig a little deeper into the stats and see what you will find.

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Wages in the UK continue to fall in real terms (rising slower than inflation) in spite of an improving labour market. So are these fallin...
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Tuesday, 22 July 2014

We need to cut wages to stay competitive? But our wages are already lower than our rivals'

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Tuesday, 15 July 2014

FTSE fat cats now earn 180 times the average worker's wage, as their salaries hit £4.7m a year

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Sunday, 13 July 2014

Graphs at a glance: If you needed at least 50% of voters' votes to win an election, Parliament would have ZERO MPs.

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How many votes should you get to win an election? Whether for Parliament or for industrial action?  David Cameron proposed that a 't...
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Friday, 11 July 2014

Low union ballot turnout means they have no mandate to strike against no-mandate Tories? Welcome to democracy in the UK!

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Chris, KJ and Fee do the sums...
Thursday, 10 July 2014

Graphs At A Glance: How many people actually voted FOR the ruling party in recent general elections?

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How much support should a cause have? From Unions wanting strikes for more pay to governments wanting the power to wield the bountiful ladle...
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Tuesday, 8 July 2014

£50m Network Rail fine means less money for maintenance. But more for super-fast wi-fi. Go figure

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Wednesday, 16 April 2014

Guest Post from Barnet UNISON, telling a story of outsourcing in pictures and music.

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The cartoons included in this guest post from Barnet UNISON were drawn by cartoonist Tim Sanders with lyrics from a UNISON supporter   ...
Friday, 7 February 2014

Industrial action is in the air. Bloody hell! Should we limit the right to strike?

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Fee explains it all to KJ. Or maybe it's the other way around...
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Friday, 18 October 2013

Teachers strike against Michael Gove’s top-to-bottom shake up of the education system

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Chris, Fee and KJ wonder whether Michael Gove has been over-reaching himself...
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Friday, 13 September 2013

The Royal Mail is to be privatised to stop it “competing for funds with our schools, our hospitals.”

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...or will it, wonder Fee, KJ and Chris...
Friday, 14 June 2013

The nation's wage bill falls £52bn in five years while top exec pay keeps rising

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Fee, Chris and KJ - if not the mainstream political parties - see the problem...
Tuesday, 2 October 2012

What will Labour really do to save the economy?

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Ed Miliband isn't telling...
Thursday, 1 December 2011

A complex forecast over pension fees

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Chris's pension fund manager chum chews over the obscenely large slice he takes from your savings pot