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Housing cuts for long-term unemployed will hit at least 194,000 vulnerable adults a year

New TUC analysis published today (Monday) of the Government's proposed 10 per cent housing benefit cut for adults who have been claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) for more than 12 months, reveals that at least 194,000 unemployed adults will lose nearly £500 a year if the cut is introduced.
6 September 2010

Spending cuts will kill jobs and growth prospects

Commenting on the latest estimate of 2010 second quarter GDP growth today (Friday) by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
27 August 2010

GCSE successes must not be thwarted by education cuts
Commenting on GCSE results announced today (Tuesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber...
24 August 2010
A-level results underline barriers to social mobility
Commenting on today's (Thursday) A-level results, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber sai...
19 August 2010
Major changes to NEST could break fragile consensus on workplace pensions
Major changes to plans to auto enrol workers into new low-cost occupational pensions in 20...
12 August 2010

TUC calls for key role for Global Jobs Pact and Robin Hood Tax at UN summit

TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber has written to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who will be leading the UK delegation to the UN Summit to review progress towards the Millennium Development Goals in September, calling for a clear plan to reach the MDGs by 2015, for the endorsement of the ILO's Global Jobs Pact as an essential element of the campaign to end global poverty, and the use of Financial Transaction Taxes to raise the money needed.

Delivering Equal Treatment for Agency Workers Briefing

Tuesday 12th October 2010, 10.00-1.00. College Green Centre, City of Bristol College, Bristol. A half day regional briefing organised by the TUC on the new Agency Worker regulations and how unions can win equal treatment and permanent employment for agency workers. Contact Andy to register, tel: 0117 947 0521, email: amoss@tuc.org.uk

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International Development Matters - Issue 90 August 2010
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A last chance to keep our promises
A Joint statement by UK civil society organisations ahead of the 2010 UN Millennium Develo...
Congress 2010 General Council Report
Report to the 142nd annual Trades Union Congress. 13-16 September 2010, Manchester

Web links for 5th September 2010

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TaxPayers Alliance report only betrays deep ideological antipathy towards unions

The Taxpayers Alliance (the organisation that, let us not forget, is NOT an alliance of ordinary tax payers) report on union facility time at best displays a naivety about the nature of the industrial relations in the UK today and at worst an ideologically based and deeply held antipathy towards trades unions and the entire [...]

Stronger Unions: on 05 Sep 2010 by Carl

Web links for 3rd September 2010
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BBC Cuts Coverage
ToUChstone: on 04 Sep 2010 by Richard Exell
Introducing the TUC Lay Leadership Development programme
Stronger Unions: on 02 Sep 2010 by Carl

Cuts Briefing: Tim Horton on the impact of the budget

Tim Horton of the Fabian Society discusses the distributed impact of the 2010 budget at the TUC Cuts Briefing event "Did the Budget Pass the Fairness Test?" on 21 July 2010

Is Deregulation Dead?

Brendan Barber's contribution to the TUC/BCC debate on the future of employment regulation.

The Interns

Comedy animation about the perils of badly organised internships. Part of Rights For Interns, a TUC campaign to improve internships.

The Banker

Bill Nighy stars in this short video to promote the Robin Hood Tax campaign for a new financial transaction tax.

The Fabian Society's Tim Horton assesses the budget for fairness


TUG General Secretary Brendan Barber


Comedy animation about the perils of bad internships


A banker discusses the Robin Hood Tax


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