Hundreds of union reps will inspect workplace buildings for safety this week
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UK Unions win HS2 site access battle at Old Oak Common job [Construction Enquirer] 25-04-2024
UK Hundreds of union reps will inspect workplace buildings for safety this week [Morning Star] 25-04-2024
UK Workers guide to action on indoor workplace air pollution [Trade Union Clean Air Network] 24-04-2024
UK Ministers have “broken their promise to parents”, says TUC [TUC] 24-04-2024
UK International Workers Memorial Day - Take part [TUC] 24-04-2024
UK Alarm at growing number of working people in UK ‘struggling to make ends meet’ [The Observer] 21-04-2024
UK Prime Minister should focus on the NHS, not demonise those too sick to work [UNISON] 19-04-2024
UK Supreme Court judgment stops bad bosses from punishing striking workers [UNISON] 18-04-2024
UK Scotland Unite says Scottish government needs ‘reality check’ over failing emissions and green jobs policies as targets ditched [Unite] 18-04-2024
UK Supreme Court rules in favour of care worker victimised for taking strike action [Morning Star] 17-04-2024
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This month in labour history
6-04-1912 After 37 days, Britain's first national coalmining strike ends. It results in the passage of the Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act. [more]
10-04-1984 The House of Commons meets for an emergency debate on the role of police in the miners strike, [more]
15-04-1856 Tom Mann, British syndicalist and a leader of the dock strikes in 1889 and 1911, is born [more]
23-04-1914 First publication of the classic socialist novel 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' [more]