John Monks

                   

Denis MacShane: Trade unionists will rue wrecking Labour

guardian.co.uk
23 hrs ago 17 related
        

Once again, Britain trade unions can help save – or help destroy – Labour as a party fit for government. Bevin, after 1945, dragged Labour away from a fatal embrace with Stalinism and, instead, created Nato, the Marshall...

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Dave's fat-wa downsizes the Tories

newstatesman.co.uk
Sep 4, 2008
        

Pickles has taken to opening his suit jacket to show he's downsizing although, I hear from one underwhelmed gawper, he remains something of a work in progressThat jovial Tory, Eric Pickles, is not quite the man he was. The...

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Morale High Despite Red Tape Wrangle Offshore Russia

rigzone.com
Jul 23, 2008 3 related
        

More than 40 offshore workers, the majority understood to be Scots, remained stranded on an jackup off the north coast of Russia yesterday in a bureaucratic wrangle. The 43 workers, employed by Aberdeen-based drilling company...

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European Commission puts social conscience on show

euobserver.com
Jul 2, 2008 5 related
        

LUCIA KUBOSOVA Today @ 17:45 CET EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission has come up with a renewed "social agenda" to highlight its efforts for better protection of citizens, despite criticism by some in the European...

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Le PSE lance un dialogue mondial sur la réforme des marchés financiers

pes.org
Jun 27, 2008 1 related
        

The PES launched this week a new global dialogue on financial market reform. The PES Financial Market Network, meeting for the first time on Monday, brings together politicians, trade unionists and academic experts from Europe,...

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EU confirms sexual orientation will be included in discrimination directive

pinknews.co.uk
Jun 18, 2008 7 related
        

Commissioner Jacques Barrot has told the European Parliament in Strasbourg that the European Commission will propose a cross-cutting directive aimed at combating discrimination on grounds of age, disability, religion/belief and...

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Les conservateurs des institutions européennes sous pression pour réformer les marchés financiers

pes.org
Jun 13, 2008 1 related
        

Pressure is mounting on conservatives in the European Parliament and Commission to abandon their hard-line opposition to improved regulation of global financial markets. a Federal Financial Services Provider "to incorporate a...

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Birthday greetings for the ECB

guardian.co.uk
Jun 11, 2008 17 related
        

Raising interest rates may help inflation-wary Germany, the europhobes rail, but what about faltering France, immobile Italy, slumping Spain - and imploding Ireland? The ECB, initially, also appeared to have bucked the trend...

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Opt-out deal is victory for realpolitik

ft.com
Jun 11, 2008 1 related
        

By Sarah Laitner in Brussels and George Parker and Jean Eaglesham in London As so often in Brussels, entrenching the UK’s opt-out from the EU’s 48-hour maximum working week came down to the raw politics of horse-trading with...

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Unions with an EWC mission

union-network.org
Jun 11, 2008
        

Unions in Europe are on a mission to convince governments and the European Parliament to support new rules for European Works Councils that will give workers greater power to influence corporate decisions. The call came from a...

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