City pressures hit Britain’s aero engine maker
In November Rolls-Royce announced proposals to reduce its Aerospace Division workforce by 2,600 jobs worldwide over the next 18 months.
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TTIP: a dagger aimed at Britain’s sovereignty
At last, a sea change is taking place in the thinking of the unions on TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership treaty being negotiated between the European Union and the US.
Pay: take up the fight
Health workers will have to decide whether to meekly acquiesce in a continuous reduction of earnings or find a way to do what generations of workers before them have done: fight to improve pay.
Britain – not for sale
Occupied countries learn the hard lesson that when you lose something it can be difficult, and often impossible, to get it back later.
TTIP: The extraordinary rendition of Britain
It is delusional to think that any body other than workers themselves can prevent the extraordinary rendition of Britain that TTIP represents.
TTIP: The Tufts study
The stark conclusions of a detailed academic study on the economic effects of TTIP seem to have shaken some unions out of their complacency about the deal.
Russia’s not our enemy
Is the US trying to push the EU into war with Russia? It’s starting to look like it…
Britain needs coal. Why can’t it be British coal?*
Britain’s coal industry is to be reduced to one deep pit and a handful of opencast mines. While the government drags its feet and the opposition remains silent, it falls to organised labour to put energy security on the agenda…
Aerospace: vital for Britain
The aerospace industry is a jewel in the crown of our high-tech manufacturing and a big source of skilled jobs. But there are clouds on the horizon.
Servicing the US Air Force
On the military side, Rolls-Royce has a $49 million contract to establish an engine maintenenace facility at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
How the government’s loan repayments work
WARNING: If what follows sounds complicated, it’s because it is. The government has made its loans so complex that most students don’t really know what they are signing up for.
The next mis-selling scandal: why most of today’s students may never clear their debts
For many of today’s students a university place has become the first step on a ladder of debt that will be with them for the whole of their working lives.
Socialism and finance: lessons from the Soviet Union about securing real progress
The 1930s saw mass unemployment sweep across the world – though not in the Soviet Union, which planned its economy and took the concepts of credit and finance seriously...
Debt, trade imbalance, fake economic miracle. Yes, it’s happened before. In Germany
Germany has been directly and indirectly responsible for the mess the eurozone now finds itself in. And this is an issue on which the country has some form, around 80 years ago...
The NHS: fighting inside, fighting to win
For those working in the NHS, our best chance of entering the field in our best shape is the battle for pay...
The profit-lined way to motorway madness
The devastation of the rail network that began in the 1960s was a conscious decision to move away from a state-owned industry to private profit – led by a transport minister whose family ran a road-building company…
The calculated ruin of the NHS
When they talk of a health market they mean health chaos. That, and a nice little earner for someone. We should begin by understanding what is being proposed.