Thanks to Roger for pointing out this piece in the Graun today about Alan Johnson’s political twitterering. I can see the attraction of microblogging for putting your worthiness about, without the efforts of writing a full-on short-term leadership blog. As Alan’s e-Campaigner Stuart Bruce says: “Being secretary of state for education and employment is a …
I noticed last week that the Sun were promoting an online 81st birthday card for the Queen, which they are extolling their readership to sign up to, and adorn with symbols of Britishness. The idea is to give the old dear a record breaking birthday greeting. I had a go, but unfortunately found I could …
Andy Stern Free Press, 224 pages America seems like a worrying place to be a leftie, and SEIU President Andy Stern lays out a formidable list of obstacles to progressive politics in this book. Global forces have changed the American economy to the point where the American dream that hard work can be valued and …
A gift-horse “unions in political correctness gone mad” story for the tabloids today. Call centre staff will now no longer be obliged to issue a greeting in Welsh when they answer the phone for Vale of Glamorgan Council. Call me a linguo-fascist, but I think the CWU have a point here – though not just …
First outing for the Unite banners at the London May Day march – something tells me we’re going to be seeing a lot of these 😉
Sneak preview – Ooh! Isn’t that pretty? Very modern, but with the fluttering red flag / flames of protest merged in there too. Simple enough to resize small on the web or blow up large on a banner – only weakness might be small on black like it is in this snap. The branding consultants …
A crucial factor in many Asylum seekers’Â cases in this country is whether they declared that they were seeking asylum ‘on entry’ or ‘in country’. Not declaring at passport control when you arrive in the UK can have a serious effect on your chances of gaining refugee status. Unsurprisingly though, people often have problems getting …
Good to see this little victory for GMB members – they’ve waited long enough for the case to come all the way up to the House of Lords, and well done to them for staying the course. A group of 36 dinner ladies employed by St Helens Borough Council took out an equal pay claim …
Scary article on unionbusting in the States on afl-cioNOW. According to a survey by a union-friendly lobby group, 91% of US firms faced with an organising campaign will make employees attend one to one meetings with their managers about the union, and a whopping 82% engage a “union avoidance consultant” (the dreaded unionbusters). Worse still, …
Not so clever. For someone who purports to be interested in unions and blogging I shouldn’t really have missed comment on my own union running a live conference blog last week. I do have the half-excuse that I’m only just back from hols at a pal’s farmhouse in rural Spain, where the landlines haven’t ever …