Gordon Brown faces an embarrassing, concerted revolt at Labour’s conference as union and party activists line up to overturn his symbolic reform of the party decision-making process.
Archive for August, 2009
GMB in legal action threat to Remploy
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, August 14th, 2009The GMB union is threatening legal action against bosses at Remploy after pay talks broke down. The union says the state-owned disabled employer has reneged on a promise to pay bonuses to over 2,000 hourly-paid staff.
‘We can’t curb bonuses’, FSA chief insists
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, August 14th, 2009Control of massive bonus payments to individuals in banks and City institutions is to slip through the Government’s new regulatory net.
Barclays amends pension plan amid staff protests
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, August 14th, 2009Barclays have offered sweeteners to staff affected by the decision to close their final-salary pension scheme, after the Unite union warned a strike threat was inevitable.
South American leaders alarmed over Colombia’s US forces boost
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, August 14th, 2009South American leaders this week expressed concern over Colombia’s plans to allow a growing number of United States military personnel to use its army and air bases for operations against drug traffickers and guerrillas.
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, August 14th, 2009
David Cameron appears happy to go along with his new friends in Europe in spite of their racist, anti-Semite, neo-fascist tendencies, but now an even bigger horror has emerged to test the Tory leaders to the bizarre alliance in the European Parliament. It couldn’t get much worse. Michal Kaminski, the Polish leader of the European [...]
The murder of Natalia Estemirova
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, August 14th, 2009Another courageous journalist documenting human rights abuses in Chechnya has been silenced, writes Lucy Popescu
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, August 13th, 2009
He’s not going where the sun shines brightly and he’s not going where the sea is blue. And, unlike his predecessor, he’s not going on a sleazy freebie courtesy of Silvio Berlusconi. There are reports that Gordon Brown’s summer holiday will include voluntary work in his constituency. Just so long as he isn’t doing anyone [...]
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Egalitarian Tory leader David “Call me Dave” Cameron could run into a few problems with the plan he and his minions have devised to impose as many as 30 “fresh faces” in winnable seats. The aim is to change the image of the nasty party by anointing people “who’ve got involvement with the community outside [...]