Securing the future of our public services
We all know about the different long term challenges facing our public services. The ageing population and the increase in people suffering from long term conditions, for example, have huge…
Labour Market Realities: Interview with an Uber Driver
Self-employment has been a major driver of job growth since the financial crisis. But this doesn’t mean there is a budding new generation of entrepreneurs – it illustrates the increasing…
Access All Areas for trade unions
National Organiser Martin Smith outlines the GMB’s Access All Areas campaign Our campaign for more rights for working people since 1997 has produced some real improvements in the lives of…
The Stakes: Social Housing
Every day in the UK, 150 families become homeless: the tip of the iceberg of Britain’s spiralling housing crisis. So what’s been going on? Why has the housing crisis worsened…
The Life That We Take For Granted
Professor Peter Beresford and Colin Slasberg assess Labour’s plans for a new independent living service The plan to create a National Care Service, as unveiled at Labour’s conference last month,…
“Too Little, Too Late” – Our Panel Respond to the Industrial Strategy White Paper
We asked our panel for their reactions to the government’s Industrial Strategy announced yesterday. “Too little, too late” – Chi Onwurah MP, Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy The government’s Industrial…
First 100 Days – Tackling Inequality
Tackling Inequality Stewart Lansley Stewart is a visiting fellow at the University of Bristol and the co-author with Joanna Mack of Breadline Britain: The Rise of Mass Poverty. Achieving a…
Fudging the funding on pay
CLASS have produced new research for the public sector union PCS which shows showing that some Whitehall department budgets are unable to fund even a 1% pay rise – well…
What Labour needs to do in 2021
“To win next time, it is the New Labour comfort zone that we must escape: the rigidity of old formulae that have served their time, the belittling of any attempt…
There must be a full and independent inquiry into the blacklisting scandal
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s suggestion that the Government’s review into industrial relations could also examine blacklisting is an insult to all the victims of this disgusting practice. The Government…
The great Home Office jobs trick
As I have previously said, the passports crisis has turned the spotlight again onto the issue of staffing in the Home Office. So it is worth recalling how two years…