NUT supports call for industrial action on November 30

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The NUT has supported the call for further industrial action on November 30 – it has also planned a mass lobby of parliament during October half term

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'Pay more, work longer, get less' remains government position on pensions

PCS

With strikes looming caused by the government’s decision to change people’s pension provision,Mark Serwotka of the Public and Commercial Services Union said: “Again the government has shown no interest in actually negotiating on any of the key principles at the heart of this dispute.”

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The Government confirms 'it has no intention of listening to teachers'

National Union of Teachers

The NUT has confirmed its strike action on Thursday, June 30. Teachers are concerned about facing paying 50% more for their pensions, to work longer and to get less.

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Need a cheap maid or gardener? Employ a disabled person on a pittance, says Tory MP

Philip Davies

“Given that some of those people with a learning disability clearly, by definition, cannot be as productive in their work as somebody who has not got a disability of that nature, then it was inevitable that given the employer was going to have to pay them both the same they were going to take on the person who was going to be more productive, less of a risk,” said Tory MP Philip Davies

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Michael Gove displaying 'breath-taking ignorance' in his primary school closure plan

Michael Gove

A policy made in haste resulting in ill thought-out proposals, the government is at it again. And this time its one of the usual suspects Michael Gove whose latest announcements of closing 200 primary schools to reopen them as academies has no evidence to support it will succeed, and is another example of ‘breath-taking ignorance’.

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Government expected to announce £5 billion Work Programme

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There’s a new Work Programme in the offing, which aims to get 176,000 people back to work – but what about the skills, and then there’s youth unemployment to takle

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People-Centred Economic Development puts the human element into profit

The People-Centred Economic Development, based in Gloucestershire, has been redefining profit for in human terms. Jeff Mowatt from the company spoke about the social business

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