Manufacturing growth gathers pace
4 September 2017
Defying talk of a slowdown and media obsessions of Brexit uncertainty, manufacturing growth in Britain is gathering pace.
4 September 2017
Defying talk of a slowdown and media obsessions of Brexit uncertainty, manufacturing growth in Britain is gathering pace.
3 September 2017
News of a massive boost for jobs and the motor industry from Nissan failed to make the main Remain newspapers – or the BBC’s website.
Students facing a working lifetime of debt are up against the clock. They must use their time at university to demand the abolition of tuition fees – and force their vice-chancellors to join them in the fight…
It’s become a mantra, endlessly repeated by the TUC: “Workers must not pay the price of Brexit.” What price would that be? And how about acknowledging the price of staying in the EU?
We’ve had a government policy paper over free movement. But we still need clarity…
25 August 2017
Sections of the establishment are regrouping to prevent a clean departure from the EU. Once again working people will have to put real pressure on the political class of Britain.
Instead of plugging skills gaps by sucking in people from abroad we have to create and implement a long-term plan for our future that develops streams of skilled people for industries, energy, transportation, services and health care
There was a time when the term “industrial strategy” would simply bring sneers from government. The vote to leave the EU has changed all that. The first clear product is a plan for Britain’s shipbuilding industry…
Beset by EU-dictated cost rises, the transport secretary is cancelling a raft of plans to extend electrification across the rail network. The move has sparked fierce opposition, and not a little ridicule…
British universities have been doing well out of EU funding – but at a cost for everyone else…
More and more staff at Barts Health are seeing the importance of protecting Agenda for Change rates…
24 August 2017
On 16 October 1934, about 100,000 men and women in China’s Red Army broke out of their surrounded soviet base. Their extraordinary year-long march to the other end of China changed not only the balance of forces in China but also the world.
The RMT has called further strikes in Southern, Arriva Rail Northern and Merseyrail in September over the future of train guards.
Despite the vote to leave the European Union, the government is still facilitating EU interference in Ukraine.
The ratio of pay between the average top FTSE 100 Chief Executive Officer pay and the average worker now stands at 129:1.
Most Remain voters now want Britain to take control of its borders, end the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice and pay little or nothing to leave the EU, according to a survey.
24 August 2017
Workers at two McDonald’s outlet are to go on strike on 4 September in a dispute that centres around union recognition, cuts to hours and bullying linked to union membership.
People are dying quicker than expected – meaning higher dividends to shareholders, as one leading insurance company has noted.
With 20:20 hindsight, a former chairman of the Financial Services Authority looks at debt…and the EU
Academics complain that their wages have been capped since 2008, and they’re right. But they don’t seem to be applying their collective intellect to working out why…
21 August 2017
A total of 137 workers were killed at work between April 2016 and March 2017, with construction, agriculture and waste/recycling most dangerous areas by far.
20 August 2017
Janitors in Glasgow’s primary, nursery and additional support schools have won a pay rise – and the principle of one janitor, one school.
10 August 2017
The capitalist carousel that now typifies Britain’s railways continues as London Midland loses the franchise to operate routes across the region’s network.
The drive by universities for higher fees from foreign students has led to a decline in British undergraduate numbers.
6 August 2017
There is certainly a nurse staff crisis in the NHS but it is not Brexit-induced – says one of the staffing agencies which are making a tidy fortune from the crisis.
5 August 2017
Swedish furniture company Ikea is to make more products in Britain and open new stores as the Swedish furniture chain prepares for Brexit.
4 August 2017
Kensington and Chelsea council raised £4.5 million from the sale of two council houses last year, more than the £3.5 million outlay on the controversial cladding system added to Grenfell Tower.
4 August 2017
Britain’s infrastructure is crumbling – literally. As council budgets get ever tighter, more than 100,000 potholes have been found on the country’s roads.
4 August 2017
The government wants to reduce the cost of exporting whisky after Brexit, with ministers keen to open up new markets around the world for the drink.
10 July 2017
A survey of average earnings across London’s 32 boroughs by the GMB union shows London in a very different light from the usual picture of the capital as a thriving business centre.