Maintain steelmaking in Britain
The steel industry is strategically important to the British economy
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Steel: the figures
Speciality steel products from Britain are highly regarded.
When the working never stops
A survey by one union branch shows a disturbing pattern of excess and unremunerated working, along with a lack of awareness about the law on working hours.
The Shrewsbury 24
One of the many pay disputes in 1972 was in the construction industry, the first national strike by building workers.
Oversubscribed - and no way of coping
The crisis in school places is already a huge problem, especially in primaries, due mainly to local large spikes in population (it will hit the secondaries very soon).
1: The five-year plan
1928 saw the first Five Year Plan, crossing the frontier from the capitalist world into uncharted lands of building socialism. Its achievements were unprecedented.
2: The Stalin constitution
The citizens of the USSR have the right to work, that is, the right to be allotted assured employment, with remuneration therefore, in accordance with its quality and quantity…
1: Take it or leave it
In theory, TiSA (and TTIP) can be stopped by just one member state saying no, or even by the European Parliament. It has to be approved by all 28 member state governments (the European Council) and, probably, by all 28 national parliaments.
2: An attack on developing countries
Until recently, international trade agreements were handled through the World Trade Organization. But because all countries participate equally in WTO negotiations, the leading imperialist nations (and the corporations which set their policy) haven’t had it all their own way.
The benefits of immigration?
25 February 2016
A ten-year EU “regneration” project has contributed to Mansfield ranking as one of the poorest towns in Britain.
They call this protection?
Ask a europhile about the “benefits” of the EU and one that might be thrown in your face is the Agency Workers Directive. Yet as trade union lawyer John Hendy has pointed out, it “appears helpful but in fact has led to a massive increase across Europe in the number of workers employed through agencies and hence without the full rights of directly employed workers”
Loophole: self-employment
There are now 4.6 million self-employed workers in Britain, according to the Office for National Statistics, and on average they work longer hours than employed workers. Their wages have fallen by around 22 per cent since 2008.
Taking on the union myth-makers
Just about every union in Britain has policy opposing privatisation. Many are committed to fighting TTIP. It is the EU that is spearheading these attacks on workers.