1+ week, 2+ day ago   (334+ words) Unifor, the union representing some 17,000 auto assembly workers across the Detroit Three’s operations in Canada, announced August 31 that it had reached agreement with General Motors management on a contract for some 4,600 workers matching the “pattern” set at Ford Canada this…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (996+ words) Prime Minister Andy Burnham has unveiled plans for Sainsbury’s, the UK’s second-largest supermarket chain, to use 10,000 young people as unpaid labour under the guise of “work experience”. The “Modern Work Experience Programme” will be launched in October, with Burnham calling…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1044+ words) Six weeks into his premiership, Labour Prime Minister Andy Burnham used Monday’s “Direction of Government” statement to Parliament to bury whatever populist pledges he made on taking office in July. At the insistence of the militarist lobby and financial oligarchy…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (127+ words) “British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he will shift responsibility for economic growth away from the UK Treasury and toward his new office in the north of England,” Bloomberg reports. “Burnham’s premiership, which began last month, has focused on giving…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (740+ words) Fourteen years ago today, Margaret Hassan, Head of Care International in Iraq was kidnapped. A month later she was murdered, her body has never been found. Her unimaginable plight and betrayal by the British government is outlined in the article…...