One of the UK’s largest unions, GMB, is to cut the affiliation funding it provides to the Labour party from £1.2 million to £150,000 per year.
It appears the spectre of Falkirk will not go away for Ed Miliband. Despite claiming he has acted decisively by suspending the selection process, Miliband has failed to publish the Labour report about the vote-rigging allegations.
In a letter to Labour Party General Secretary Iain McNicol, Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey has said that he has lost trust in Labour HQ and its investigations – and calls for an independent inquiry.
The collapse of an eight-story factory building near Dhaka which killed more than 380 people shows the urgent need to improve Bangladesh’s protections for worker health and safety, with reforms including labour inspections and the right of workers to unionize.
Gove wants the deregulation of education and the increased privatisation of schools writes John Westmoreland