Rättvisa lön: IKEA unveil plan to build a Living Wage
Great news this week for Usdaw members in IKEA, as the Swedish flat pack furniture giant have committed to sign up as a Living Wage employer.
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Strike figures show there’s no justification for the Trade Union Bill
The official statistics on work days lost to strike action in the UK are out today, and they show an increase in the number of strikes. In all, 788,000 days of industrial action took place in 2014. That’s up from 444,000 in 2013, and from 249,000 in 2012. But before you start stockpiling your Daily…
Breaking the law? Today’s peaceful #NHSstrike pickets could be illegal by next year
NHS workers are taking strike action across the country today, in protest at six years of pay freezes and the growing funding crisis in the health services they work to sustain. Peaceful pickets are out in force, with striking workers taking the message to the public by standing in front of their workplaces, and by…
Picturehouse Cinemas: Pay all your staff a living wage
Staff at the Ritzy Picturehouse cinema in Brixton, London, have been fighting a long and difficult campaign to be paid a living wage. They’ve faced strong opposition from management and the threat of redundancies, but by standing strong with their union BECTU, they’ve managed to strike a deal that has seen their base rate of…
Blog Action Day: Britain Needs A Pay Rise to beat #inequality
Today is Blog Action Day, when thousands of bloggers around the world are coming together to talk about the topic of inequality. It’s a timely message for unions in the UK, as we prepare to join forces in London, Glasgow and Belfast on Saturday to protest about the growing inequality in how people are paid…
Going through the motions: A guide to the jargon of #TUC14 business
TUC Congress 2014 has started in Liverpool, and until Wednesday you can catch it online via live stream on the TUC site. However, when a group of people have been doing something for 146 years, the jargon that inevitably grows up around it can make things tricky for those who don’t have the full set…
Calling Cameron’s bluff on strike votes
Annoyed at the public service strike in July, David Cameron has announced a whole raft of Conservative manifesto proposals that could stop any workers taking strike action again.