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The Long March Back
Commemorating the end of the 1984/5 miners strike and the aftermath.
Assassination of Union leader Pedro Antonio Garcia
On behalf the TUC, British workers and the 6.2 million members in our affiliated unions I write to deplore the killing of a fifth trade unionist and the attempted murder of a sixth in the space of three and a half months in Guatemala
Widespread wage freezes could threaten recovery, warns TUC
Widespread wage freezes across the private and public sector will reduce consumer demand and could threaten the UK's fragile economic recovery
ONE HUNDRED FIRMS BLACKED OUT
Privatisation has starved the energy sector of long-term thinking, argues Terry Macalister. Photograph: Rex/Cosmo Condina/Stock Connection/Rex Features
E.ON chief: Preserve coal plants to keep lights on
Ageing coal-fired power stations should be exempted from environmental regulations and kept open to stop the lights from going out, the chief executive of E.ON UK has urged the government.
These cuts are the pits
Hundreds of thousands of retired miners and their widows face pension cuts because the Government is imposing miserly new rules.
Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith wants private pensions to rise in line with the Consumer Prices Index rather than the Retail Prices Index. It doesn’t soun
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Fraud 'a cover for hurting the poor'
Trade unionists have accused David Cameron of using benefit fraud as "cover for swingeing cuts to genuine claimants."
Speaking last week Mr Cameron described benefit fraud and error as "the one area of ingrained waste that outranks all others."
However the TUC said that, while all fraud should b
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These cuts won't hurt a bit. Unless you're young or poor
This is only the appetiser, not even the first course, just the amuse-bouche to whet the appetite. With a hint of lip-smacking relish for the coming cuts, George Osborne and David Laws today sharpened their knives. There were no expressions of regret, not even a crocodile tear or two for the real
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INDIA' RELIANCE ON COAL
India claimed to be a front-runner among developing nations for emissions disclosure today with its first national survey of greenhouse gases in more than a decade.
The government study based on 2007 data showed a sharp increase in industrial activity since the last assessment in 1994 has made Indi
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