by admin | Apr 28, 2012 | Campaigns, international, unions
Today, 28 April, is Workers’ Memorial Day (WMD). It’s when the trade union movement and safety campaigners hold a day of action to defend workers’ health and safety. Today, our health and safety is under attack in ways unprecedented in recent times, with attacks on...
by admin | Nov 24, 2011 | Campaigns, unions
On 22 November, the Unite union published a ‘dossier of hypocrisy’, exposing the pensions of cabinet ministers at the heart of the coalition’s attack on public sector workers. This is timely because, any day now, the right-wing press is expected to blast away at the...
by admin | Nov 8, 2011 | BBC, Campaigns, nuj, unions
The NUJ ballot for strike action and action short of a strike at the BBC started this week. The ballot is in response to the BBC’s misnamed Delivering Quality First proposals which include axing thousands of jobs and programming cuts at the Corporation. According to...
by admin | Nov 7, 2011 | Campaigns, Europe, unions
Bill Gates is in favour and so is the Archbishop of Canterbury, and if were still alive today so would be St Paul. But what of our own (and still very much alive) Chancellor, George Osborne? Well his public position is that he is in favour, provided that it is applied...
by admin | Oct 11, 2011 | Campaigns, international, whistle blowing
I have just received the following updated on Mocdechai Vanunu who 25 years ago this month was kidnapped in Rome and shipped to Israel where he stood trial (held in secret) for revealing that country’s ‘secret’ nuclear arsenal. I was there is 2004 when Mordechai was...
by admin | Aug 4, 2011 | Campaigns, media freedom, Press
On 26 July I spoke at a meeting on Murdoch organised by NUJ members and supported by the Defend the Right to Protest (DtRtP), at Conway Hall, London. Main speakers included Tony Benn, Michelle Stanistreet (NUJ general secretary) and Matt Foot, campaigning lawyer and...
