Socialist Worker has previously reported that disgraced MP Peter Hain took over £15,000 from the GMB union and then decided to slash jobs for disabled workers at the Remploy factories, many of them represented by the GMB.
Alan Johnson, the health secretary, seems to have given special access to a private NHS contractor owned by one of the biggest donors to his deputy leadership campaign.
£1,284 – The increase in annual average household bills in the last year as food and fuel prices rose21% – Rise in the number of home repossessions. Some 27,100 homes were repossesed last year, up from 22,400 in 2006 and 8,200 in 2004129,800 – The number of borrowers at least three months behind in their mortgage repayments, up by 8.6 percent4.5 million – Number of British households in fuel poverty—spending more than 10 percent of their income on fuel19.3% – The increase in petrol prices in the last year15% – The average hike in fuel b
A Labour peer has admitted taking money to introduce an arms company lobbyist to the government minister in charge of weapons purchases.
For those having trouble meeting their housing costs there is over £20,000 available to help. The only catch is you have to be an MP.
In which area set to host the Olympics are trade union rights denied? Certainly they are in China, but it’s also true in Labour-run Newham in east London – one of the key areas for the 2012 games.
Two women whose sons were killed serving in Iraq took their case for a public inquiry into the legality of the war to the House of Lords on Monday of this week.
George Bush’s defence secretary Robert Gates is making increasingly shrill pronouncements as the occupation of Afghanistan lurches into a deeper crisis.
The Tories are demanding that the government ban Ibrahim Mousawi, editor of the Hizbollah newspaper Al-Intiqad (Criticism), from speaking at the World Against War tour that will kick off with a rally in London on 28 February.
The US’s decision to seek the death penalty for six Guantanamo Bay detainees in connection with 9/11 is a crime against the very idea of justice.
Around 400 pro-choice protesters staged a loud and lively picket of Tory MP Ann Widdecombe’s anti-abortion meeting in London yesterday. She is speaking around Britain on her "Passion for Life" tour – which focuses on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill currently in parliament.
GMB and LabourSource Ltd have reached agreement over the pay, conditions and treatment of the company's migrant workforce that resolves all misunderstandings and issues regarding accusations made in October of last year. GMB after being invited to conduct a full audit of the current practices relating to employment issues can confirm that LabourSource seem to be an honest, professional organisation. The GMB are happy to endorse LabourSource's new working practices.
