January 2004
23rd : January E-brief
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6th : STUC WANTS MORE EFFORT TO REDUCE WORK RELATED DEATHS
The STUC has called on the Government to supply increased resources to combat our failure to make any real impact into the Health and Safety Executives revitalising strategy.
6th : Religious respect is not just for Christmas says STUC
The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) today urged employers to consider that their employees may want to take holidays to celebrate a range of religious festivals that fall at different times of the year
4th : CHRISTMAS CARING
The STUC Youth Committee are today urging Scots everywhere to make time for their elderly friends and neighbours over the Christmas and New Year period.
6th : STUC calls on Scottish Executive to support Bill to ban Christmas and New Year?s Day opening
The STUC hopes that the Private Members Bill tabled by Karen Whitefield MSP to prevent larger stores opening on Christmas Day and New Years Day will be given debating time by the Scottish Executive in 2004
6th : FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN 2004
In Scotland we saw the first upturn in trade union membership for 22 years. As a result, the STUC has increased its staffing, and the service we are able to offer Scotland?s unions and the workers they represent
6th : STUC calls for an ?Activity strategy? to counter high levels of inactivity and declining population
For too long, the inactive have tended to be regarded as a social problem rather than an as a reservoir of potential to increase prosperity for all.
15th : STUC calls for review of workplace fatality investigations
The Scottish Trades Union Congress has called for more co-ordination by Procurator Fiscals, Police and enforcement authorities when dealing with incidents involving work related fatalities. The call follows the release of the full decision by the Co
4th : STUC GENERAL SECRETARY CALLS ON BOSSES AND MSPs TO BACK ACTION AGAINST ?SCUM? WHO ATTACK EMERGENCY W
Speaking in advance of the Executive - led Scottish Parliament debate on Protection of Emergency Workers (15 January 2004), STUC General Secretary Bill Speirs said: ?No-one should have to work in fear of violence ? and violence against those working