Trade Unions, Immigration and Immigrants, 1960-1993: A Comparative Study of the Actions of Trade Unions in Seven West European Countries (International Studies in Social History)
Old Bitter Balls (Free subscription) | yesterday
The above picture is a spoof from the film 'How to lose friends and alienate people' it would be funnier if it wasn't so terribly true. You just know some producer wants to remake Gandhi with Vin Diesel in the starring role or do Wolverine............. the teenage years. Not sure how they could do the later but sense and reason has never stopped them before. Comic Strip Presents was a brilliant series...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Union may suspend talks if no headway made over modernisation plans The postal dispute could reignite next week if Royal Mail continues to stall over peace talks, sources close to the Communication Workers Union have warned. The two sides began negotiations under the auspices of mediation service Acas this week but it is understood that little headway has been made. "So far, it's been a case...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The national Union of Journalists have voted to support Indymedia.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
LONDON, ENGLAND (MARKET WIRE) The major floods over the past two days have once again highlighted the central role firefighters play in responding to a range of emergencies. Firefighters, working with other agencies, have been at the heart of the operation to protect the safety of the public.
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
From the Wall Street Journal : Here is a small selection of events that have taken place in Britain since the end of Israel's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza earlier this year. The government has imposed a partial arms embargo on Israel and failed to vote against the Goldstone report in the U.N . The charities War on Want and Amnesty International U.K. have both promoted a book by the anti-Israeli firebrand...
Carolyn Clayton (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
English Astrologer Patrick Arundell was born at the Jesuit College, Stonyhurst, Lancashire, UK. A Sun Aquarian, Patrick also has the Moon, Venus, and his Imum Coeli, or bottom of his Natal Chart as well as Chiron, in the sign of Aquarius. With an Ascendant in Libra and Uranus, the ruler of astrology, Conjunct his Midheaven, the part of his Natal Horoscope linked to career, Patrick’s path as an...
Your Nursing World : After IUON (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The British government recently announced that by 2013, the minimum education for nurses will be raised from diploma to degree level, which means three or four years of post-secondary education and training. The Royal College of Nursing is quoted as calling this "an important and historic development" , while the UK Department of Health feels the additional education will better equip nurses...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Shock Botswana Musicians Union (BOMU) award winners in the Best Album and Best Traditional Music category, Ramotswa group Barwakgodumo have attributed their fame to their own investment strategy - they voted for themselves.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) responded to proposals for the forthcoming Parliamentary session, welcoming in particular the Government's commitment to provide free personal care to those with the greatest need.
Wilson's Blogmanac (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
1915 USA: After a controversial trial believed by many to be a miscarriage of justice, IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) labor organizer, folk-poet and songwriter, Joe Hill (Joseph Hillstrom), was killed by state firing squad in Utah. Hill has become the subject of numerous songs, plays, and books, and some of his songs have been available continuously in the IWW's Little Red Song Book , now in...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Allegations of bullying and harrassment by management at Liverpool prison led to two days of unofficial action by 200 staff Talks between senior prison service officials and the prison officers' union are to take place next Monday following a wave of unofficial industrial action today by hundreds of prison officers in north-west England. The talks will look at allegations of bullying and harassment...
icWales (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Hundreds of prison officers involved in wildcat strikes have returned to work, the Prison Officers' Association (POA) has confirmed.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - UK & world news (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Hundreds of prison officers involved in wildcat strikes have returned to work, the Prison Officers' Association (POA) has confirmed.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Hundreds of prison officers involved in wildcat strikes have returned to work, the Prison Officers' Association (POA) has confirmed.
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
As Shadow Home Secretary in the run-up to the 1997 Election, Jack Straw personally campaigned for the votes of prison officers by promising to give them the right to strike. And, to his credit at the time, he did indeed give them that very right once he became Home Secretary. A decade later, what ridiculously still purported to be a Labour Government repealed that legislation of its own. And the Cabinet...
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