Unions Follow

Workers whose bosses sack them unfairly, discriminate against them or withhold their wages will now have to pay up to £1,200 to challenge them in court.

Simon Basketter looks at why Ed Miliband is trying to cut union members’ automatic subs to Labour—and why union leaders continue to fund the party

Unions are not legally allowed to support a political party in any way out of the general fund raised from members’ subscriptions. 

John Mills handed over £1.65 million worth of shares in his JML company to the party earlier this year.

A bruising week of confrontations, accusations, attacks and withdrawals has exposed the Labour Party’s love-hate relationship with the big trade unions, writes Simon Basketter

We should defend the right of unions to fund political parties. But if Labour wants to get workers’ money it should do something to deserve it, writes Simon Basketter

The unions formed the Labour Party and they should own it, says Jerry Hicks

The Tories say falling unemployment shows that the crisis isn’t so bad. But unprecedented attacks on pay tell a different story, writes Annette Mackin

Bosses have pushed workers to accept pay cuts by claiming this will keep them in work—and union officials have sometimes accepted this blackmail.

Unemployment in Britain fell by 5,000 in the three months to April this year according to official figures. 

The number of women out of work rose by 7,000 to 1.09 million in the three months to April.

The government is bringing constant pain to working class people. The number of people in absolute poverty in Britain rose by nearly a million in just one year. Some 300,000 of these were children.