Unions Follow

Any belief that Gordon Brown’s government is going to back workers rights took another blow as the government voted down a series of amendments to the Employment Bill that would have given limited rights to workers in industrial disputes.

The London region of the UCU education union initiated a meeting last week to discuss organising a joint trade union response to the recession.

The growing frustration and anger against Gordon Brown’s determination to make workers pay for the economic crisis broke through at the TUC conference this week.

Tim Besley, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, claimed last week that inflation will fall next year if workers keep their wages down.

In a decision that could potentially cost unions over £100 million, the Court of Appeal last week ruled that the GMB union discriminated against its women members while negotiating a pay deal with their employer.

Hundreds of thousands of workers are gearing up to take on Gordon Brown's pay curbs.

Gordon Brown announced last Sunday that he will not reform the Tory anti-trade union laws. "Successful governments are those whose eyes are fixed on the future not harking back to the past," he said.

Civil service workers in the Prospect and PCS unions at the British Museum in London came out on strike on Friday afternoon last week over a below-inflation pay offer.

Health workers in the Unite union are gearing up for a day of action over a three-year below-inflation pay rise.

Gordon Brown’s Labour Party is bankrupt. The millionaires who secretly lent money to Labour in the run up to the 2005 election are asking for their cash back.

Across Britain, workers prepare for mass strike on 24 April

Many teachers in the NUT union are encouraging other school workers to join them on the picket lines.