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Keir Starmer will face discontent from unions and MPs at the National Policy Forum in NottinghamKeir Starmer faces battles over the two-child benefit cap and other flashpoints at a key Labour policy gathering this weekend where trade union delegates wi…
Five metro mayors launch challenge to plans, saying ‘rushed’ public consultation not following due processUK politics live – latest updatesLabour mayors are launching legal action to prevent the closure of railway station ticket offices across England….
Union members are concerned about funding for the below-inflation increase and the lack of a long-term agreementConcerns over how the rise promised to teachers in England will be funded, and dismay at the lack of a long-term agreement on pay, has stirr…
Mick Lynch downplays prospects of a resolution to dispute over pay, jobs and conditionsThe RMT leader, Mick Lynch, has claimed he has not met a government minister since January as he downplayed prospects of a resolution to the long-running dispute ove…
Exclusive: Labour leader urges left to ‘care more about growth’ and rules out spending ‘vast sums of money’Labour will rebuild broken Britain with big reforms, not big spending. That’s a promise | Keir StarmerLabour will only succeed in winning power a…
Sharon Graham, of UK’s second largest union, says party lacks ambition and is not showing itself as distinct alternative to ToriesLabour should “talk about what they can do to change Britain”, the leader of the UK’s second largest trade union has said….
Health unions suggest industrial action likely to continue as Gillian Keegan defends 6% rise on the tableA senior cabinet minister has urged health unions to take the government’s pay offer “seriously”, after union leaders said the proposed deal would …
Public service workers in England offered 5%-7% rises but departments must fund them from existing budgetsHealth union leaders have reacted furiously to a warning from Rishi Sunak that his offer of a 6% pay rise this year was final and that “no amount …
Unions hail verdict that brands Kwasi Kwarteng’s approach ‘so unfair’ so as to be ‘unlawful and irrational’Legal changes brought by the government to let agency staff fill in for striking workers have been quashed by the high court, with ministers’ app…
Commons speaker intervenes as MPs and unions challenge government plans to close offices across EnglandThe government has been challenged in the Commons over plans to close railway ticket offices, including by the speaker, who told the rail minister th…