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George Osborne said it was the day Britain stepped back from the brink. But union leaders tell Channel 4 News the spending review will lead to “wholesale unemployment”.
A clash is looming between the government and unions over plans to reform public sector pensions. Report author Lord Hutton tells Channel 4 News: “There is change coming”.
Would Ed Miliband have won the Labour leadership if it was based on individual votes? FactCheck finds out.
Cutting public spending would prolong the recession and lead to unemployment soaring to four million, the country’s most senior union leaders have warned.
There is only one aim for the Union movement here in Manchester. Can they turn the government’s austerity drive from an issue of self interest into an issue of nationwide social justice?
Britain’s trade unions are gathering in Manchester today for the annual TUC congress with the threat of the biggest mass strikes by public sector workers since the poll tax riots of 1990.
George Osborne is called on for an emergency debate questioning the government’s programme of cuts, as the spectre of collective union strikes rises on the back of the TUC’s meeting in Manchester.
Gary Gibbon
There was a possibility that the trade unions would try to revive their power to inflict defeats on the leadership in contemporary resolution votes – they surrendered to a self-neutering on this when Gordon Brown took over at No.10 in 2007, as a gesture of goodwill.
Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown prepares to talk about “cuts” in his speech to the TUC Conference – but will the unions bay for blood?
One or two-word Ofsted inspection grades for schools in England are being scrapped, the government has announced.
There are increasing reports of international care workers being ripped off, abused and exploited. Now the Royal College of Nursing is calling on the government to launch a full and urgent  investigation.
A week’s worth of rioting, and more than 400 arrests so far, will only ramp up pressure on the nation’s crumbling prison service.
We spoke to Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
We spoke to the Secretary of State for Wales David TC Davies, and Jo Stevens who’s the shadow Welsh Secretary.
Matt Wrack is the head of the Fire Brigades Union, affiliated to the Labour Party, and currently President of the Trades Union Congress and joined us from Durham.