ROW AT NO.10 SPARKS UNION STRIKE THREAT December 20, 2010 THE government’s assault on public sector pensions became a major flashpoint yesterday at trade union leaders’ first official meeting with a Conservative Prime Minister for 25 years. In a meeting at No. 10 requested by the unions to outline their concerns about the government’s public spending cuts, Cameron said certain aspects of the government’s programme [...]
There’s plenty of change in our Power Hundred December 21, 2010 INTRODUCING our City A.M./CityJet Power Hundred list for 2011 one is struck by the number of new entrants – 43 in all. Admittedly the last list was put together a couple of years ago, but there really have been dramatic changes since then. The biggest difference is the political landscape. Gone are the big beasts [...]
There’s plenty of change in our Power Hundred December 21, 2010 INTRODUCING our City A.M./CityJet Power Hundred list for 2011 one is struck by the number of new entrants – 43 in all. Admittedly the last list was put together a couple of years ago, but there really have been dramatic changes since then. The biggest difference is the political landscape. Gone are the big beasts [...]
King tells the unions cuts are only option September 15, 2010 MERVYN King launched a broadside against bankers’ bonuses yesterday, telling unions they were right to be angry at the industry – but he warned there was no alternative to swingeing spending cuts to reduce the deficit. Speaking at the Trades Union Congress annual conference in Manchester, the Bank of England governor said the economic crisis [...]
King tells the unions cuts are only option September 15, 2010 MERVYN King launched a broadside against bankers’ bonuses yesterday, telling unions they were right to be angry at the industry – but he warned there was no alternative to swingeing spending cuts to reduce the deficit. Speaking at the Trades Union Congress annual conference in Manchester, the Bank of England governor said the economic crisis [...]
Unite: BA strike ballot is inevitable September 6, 2010 UNITE, the union representing British Airways (BA) cabin crew, has warned that a further strike ballot is “inevitable” with the Christmas holidays the next likely target for industrial action. Yesterday up to 2,000 members of the British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association (BASSA), the BA crew branch of Unite, met at Kempton Park Racecourse to [...]
TUC in bid to ban Cameron July 8, 2010 The transport workers’ union has called on the Trade Unions Congress to withdraw an invitation to David Cameron, who is due to address the organisation’s annual conference in September. In a sign of escalating tensions between the government and public sector workers, the RMT said the Prime Minister was launching the “biggest attack on the [...]
Unions plan national walkout August 2, 2010 BRITAIN is facing another winter of discontent, after unions were urged to coordinate strike action and plan a series of national walkouts. The Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) union has called on public sector workers to down tools at the same time, in protest against swingeing cuts planned by the coalition government. The union, run [...]
Wall Street finishes flat after late buying January 25, 2011 US stocks erased losses in a late flurry of buying to end little changed yesterday as overall optimism about earnings offset disappointing results from blue chips 3M and Johnson & Johnson. About 70 per cent of S&P companies so far have beaten estimates, but worries about inflation cutting into profits have caused investors to jump [...]
Unions can’t agree on how to fight cuts to spending September 13, 2010 WHEN Brendan Barber, general secretary of the Trade Unions Congress (TUC), addressed the organisation’s annual summit yesterday, he sounded more like Neil Kinnock than the heir of militant miners’ leader Arthur Scargill. “The government is pursuing a political agenda, so our response must be political,” Barber told delegates, as he sought to distance himself from [...]