November 2004
3rd : STUC supports HSE Stress Management Standards
The STUC has announced its support for the new HSE Stress Management Standards launched today (3 November 2004) to coincide with stress awareness day...
9th : November E-brief
Download the November edition of the STUC monthly e-brief... (NB: There was no e-brief issued in October as there was no STUC General Council in this month)
5th : STUC General Secretary Addresses Civil Service Strike Rally
Speaking at today?s (Friday 5 November) civil service strike and rally at the Pavilion Theatre, Renfield Street, Glasgow, STUC General Secretary, Bill Speirs said...
6th : Minister launches the first annual STUC Disabled Workers? Conference
Malcolm Chisholm, Minister for Communities will tomorrow (Saturday 6 November 2004) launch the first STUC Disabled Workers? Conference. The conference will address a range of issues facing disabled people in Scotland today...
10th : STUC Cautiously Welcomes Executive?s Bid To Protect Workers Health
The Scottish Trades Union Congress has welcomed, with some reservations, the announcement by the Scottish Executive to ban smoking in public places...
11th : STUC Welcomes Refreshed Smart Successful Scotland
The STUC welcomes the refreshed strategy. We are particularly pleased that the new strategy explicitly directs the enterprise networks to maintain a pivotal role in regeneration & tackling Scotland's high & persistent economic inactivity...
12th : STUC Supports Scottish Hazards Conference
The Scottish Trades Union Congress will be hosting a conference organised by the Scottish Hazards Campaign Group in the STUC Glasgow tomorrow (Saturday 13 November 2004)...
15th : Working Women call for Action to Close the Gender Pay Gap
Working women at the Scottish Trades Union Congress Women?s Conference will today call for more action to close the gender pay gap, where women on average earn 19 per cent less than the average working man.
18th : Emergency Workers Bill
STUC welcomes Executives extension to Emergency Workers Bill. The Scottish Trades Union Congress today (Thursday, 18 November 2004) welcomed the amendments from the Scottish Executive to widen the protection offered under existing proposals to many w
18th : Workplace Accidents
STUC concerned at lack of progress in preventing workplace accidents in Scotland
19th : Women & Work Commission
Scottish Trade Union Women express concerns on UK Government?s Women and Work Commission
23rd : STUC calls on Scottish Executive to follow Corporate Manslaughter Legislation
The STUC has welcomed the announcement in the Queen?s speech of proposed legislation for the crime of corporate manslaughter...
25th : Call centre offshoring not inevitable...
The STUC has today (Friday 26th November 2004) published a strategy to sustain and improve call centre jobs in Scotland, placing it in the context of the trade union response to the wider globalisation agenda...
26th : STUC dismayed at lack of Christmas Cheer from Stockline Employers
The STUC has expressed dismay at the decision by employers of those injured in the Maryhill tragedy to withdraw their enhanced sick pay arrangements to coincide with the ending of workers entitlement to Statutory Sick Pay...
29th : STUC calls for clarification on civil service jobs
Speaking in support of statements made by PCS and UNISON in response to today?s announcement made by the Minister for Finance and Public Services Reform Minister, Bill Speirs, STUC General Secretary said...
29th : St Andrews Day Bank Holiday
The Scottish Trades Union Congress is supporting the backbench bill of MSP Denis Canavan MSP proposing the establishment of St Andrew?s Day as a national holiday...