by admin | Jul 19, 2012 | Durham Miners' Gala, media ownership, unions
Last Saturday saw the 128th Miners’ Gala in Durham (called locally ‘The Big Meeting’). It got the national headlines because Labour leader Ed Miliband attended, the first leader to do so for 23 years. (Neil Kinnock was the last.)I’ve not much to say about EM’s speech...
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 12, 2011 | unions
On Sunday 2 October I joined some 35,000 people on the TUC March for the Alternative in Manchester, which went through the city and passed the Conservative Party Conference. Imagine my surprise when I saw this picture taken by NUJ photographer Guy Smallman of police...
