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‘Union premium’ on wages gets bigger

The gap between the hourly earnings of union members and non-union members — the union premium — widened in 2014, official figures show.

The trade union wage premium, defined as the...Read more

04th Jun 2015
Speaking up for Justice at PCS Conference

Speak up for Justice held a well-attended, informative fringe at PCS's annual conference this year in May, at which speakers and delegates discussed the impact of government policies and spending...Read more

03rd Jun 2015
The Government today published information on the numbers of directly employed staff of the National Offender Management Service

The workforce statistics bulletin looks at staffing levels and staff inflows and outflows for NOMS since April 2010. It carefully describes the NOMS structure but admits that detail for the NPS is...Read more

28th May 2015
Defend workers' rights against TTIP

The TUC is urging all union members to contact their MEP asking them to use their influence the coming key vote on the controversial TTIP Treaty.  Though MEPs won’t decide on TTIP themselves, the...Read more

26th May 2015
Probation Inspectorate 2nd report on Transforming Rehabilitation

HMIP yesterday published their second report on the early implementation of TR and its impact on offender supervision. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the progress that has been made, with...Read more

20th May 2015

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