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Paul Blomfield calls on Cameron to scrap his anti-workers pledge

22 hours ago ago from Labour Matters

Paul Blomfield, Labour's Parliamentary Candidate for Sheffield Central, has signed a giant Christmas card to David Cameron calling on him to scrap his pledge to pull Britain out of the European Social Chapter which would have a devastating impact on British workers. Britain joined the European Social Chapter in 1997 thanks to the Labour Government. Under the Tory plans British workers would lose employment rights that workers in every ...

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Conversation with the climate

19 hours ago ago from Christopher Schwartz's Weblog

I have been snowbound in the Netherlands since Monday.  The whole country was buried under white, as has been, indeed, the whole Continent, not to mention Britain and the United States.  I must confess it seems like a Roland Emmerich film come to life. Monday evening I had a debate with a friend of mine who is a chemical engineer with Shell about climatology.  He's of the view that global warming is a faulty theory.  That's neither to ...

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Gov’t must adopt pro-worker, pro-union position

3 hours ago ago from the blogging syed shahir

Gov't must adopt pro-worker, pro-union position Syed Shahir Syed Mohamud Dec 18, 09 6:17pm On the occasion of UN's recent Human Rights Day, the Malaysian Trade Unions Congress (MTUC) calls for a greater recognition and respect of workers' rights in Malaysia. This year, the theme determined by the UN was non-discrimination. MTUC specifically calls for the end of all forms of discrimination against workers in Malaysia. Unions ...

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Muslims slam UK pledge to reform war crimes law

13 hours ago ago from ONE NEWS

Thursday, December 24, 2009 LONDON: Britain's flagship Muslim organization on Wednesday attacked a government pledge to reform a war crimes law used to try to arrest visiting Israeli dignitaries, saying the move could hurt Britain's image in the Middle East.The Muslim Council of Britain said it was "deeply disappointed" that the country's foreign minister, David Miliband, promised to change the law so that judges could no longer issue secret ...

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Back Britain To Get Britain Back To Work

20 hours ago ago from David Lindsay

In The First Post , Neil Clark writes: It's certainly not the sort of news that Gordon Brown wanted to hear just before Christmas. Official figures released yesterday show that despite the Brown government‘s efforts to boost the economy, Britain has remained in recession for a record-breaking sixth quarter. As The First Post's business correspondent Edward Helmore reports today, the economy shrank by 0.2 per cent between July and ...

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