TUC blogs

blogsThis page brings together the latest posts from across a number of TUC blogs and blogs to which the TUC contributes. It includes:
Brendan Barber at CommentIsFree, ToUChstone blog, Stronger Unions, workSMART blog, Going To Work blog, PlayFair 2012 blog, Community Day blog and TUC posts at Amnesty blogs and Left Foot Forward.

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Inequality, social security and the recession

(Warning: long post). New figures from the Organisation [...]

ToUChstone: on 25 May 2013 by Richard Exell
Making financial products True and Fair

Delivering a fair deal for savers and pensioners [...]

ToUChstone: on 24 May 2013 by Gina Miller
The UK’s two stage ‘recovery’ & fiscal policy

The chart below shows the level of quarterly [...]

ToUChstone: on 24 May 2013 by Duncan Weldon
Finally, some good news from Europe

Pension stakeholders in the UK breathed a collective [...]

ToUChstone: on 24 May 2013 by Craig Berry
Israel’s ports haunted by Ronald Reagan’s ghost

In the labour movement we’re often fond of [...]

Stronger unions: on 23 May 2013 by Eric Lee
The abolition of Disability Living Allowance

The government has abolished Disability Living Allowance, the [...]

ToUChstone: on 23 May 2013 by Richard Exell
Stagnation Charts #6: growth in the service industries

In the latest of our occasional series of [...]

ToUChstone: on 23 May 2013 by Richard Exell
The work test that doesn’t work

The government’s Work Capability Assessment is finding people [...]

ToUChstone: on 23 May 2013 by Colin Hampton
The impact of benefit stigma

I have a post at Our Welfare Works, [...]

ToUChstone: on 22 May 2013 by Richard Exell
VIDEO: Employment trends May 2013

I’ve recorded this video taking a look at [...]

ToUChstone: on 21 May 2013 by Richard Exell
Guatemala Week of Action

Recent months have seen a flurry of agreements [...]

Stronger unions: on 21 May 2013 by Sam Gurney
When will the economy recover?

I blogged this morning on the weakness of [...]

ToUChstone: on 21 May 2013 by Duncan Weldon
Is the economy healing?

The Chancellor has long been keen to tell [...]

ToUChstone: on 21 May 2013 by Duncan Weldon
Disabled and older rail passengers make their voices heard

Action for Rail joined forces with Transport for All, the National Pensioners Convention and Disabled People Against Cuts last month to get the message over that cuts to staff on...

Action For Rail: on 20 May 2013 by matt
Update: Kenya tea workers solidarity appeal

Francis Atwoli of the Kenyan TUC has sent us a message of heartfelt appreciation for donations to his legal fund.

Going To Work: on 20 May 2013 by Going To Work
Europe: while Tories burn, unions must do more than fiddle

One-time FT journalist Stefan Stern recently blogged some [...]

ToUChstone: on 19 May 2013 by Owen Tudor
Austerity in Greece strips workers of their rights

Last week, Greek teachers found out that their [...]

Stronger unions: on 19 May 2013 by Owen Tudor
Persuade Gap & Debenhams to sign up for factory safety

We’ve reported elsewhere about the 34 major companies [...]

Stronger unions: on 17 May 2013 by Owen Tudor
Tell Debenhams and GAP to back Bangladesh safety plan

Please help ask these stores to sign up to a major new Accord for worker safety in Bangladesh.

Going To Work: on 17 May 2013 by Going To Work
Why UKIP can’t get its facts straight on climate change

Climate change? It’s so last century! Defra, the [...]

ToUChstone: on 17 May 2013 by Philip Pearson
Equal marriage: The other side of the debate

The House of Commons returns to the Marriage [...]

ToUChstone: on 17 May 2013 by Peter Purton

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