15th May 2012
Responding to the announcement from the Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities Theresa May MP, on the Government’s intention to further weaken equality legislation in this country and to review again the funding allocated to the Equality and Human Rights Commission Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) General Secretary Grahame Smith said:
16th May 2012
Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) General Secretary Grahame Smith said: “Today’s statistics show a rise in the number of people unemployed in Scotland of 2000 since last month and of 13,000 since this time last year. In this context, the Secretary of State for Scotland’s welcome of a ‘further fall in Scottish unemployment’ is misleading in the extreme.
18th May 2012
Mahdi Abu Dheeb, the President of the Bahraini Teachers Association (BTA), has now spent more than a year behind bars for doing nothing more than leading his trade union.
22nd May 2012
The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) has reacted angrily at the latest plans by the coalition Government to attack the employment rights of United Kingdom Workers.
