Finance workers wearing bowler hats and pig masks will stage a demonstration outside the Conservative Party conference today protesting at donations the Tories have reportedly received from hedge fund managers.

In the name of deregulation, the Tories have continued their real agenda to attack H&S protection for workers. There seems to be collective amnesia amongst these ladies and gents to the struggles workers have waged in the past to improve working conditions and building safer workplaces. In...

The Tories have opened up a bit of “clear blue water” with a daft attack upon the miserably few rights individual workers have. The odious Alan Duncan has pleased the management stooges at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) with an attack on the employment tribunal...

Plaid MEP Jill Evans has attacked the Conservatives for letting down Welsh workers once again by voting against a law to control subcontractors who exploit workers. She was speaking in Strasbourg after an important vote in the European Parliament on subcontractor liability, which was adopted with 321 votes to 235, meaning that the Conservatives and their allies lost the vote. ... full story

TRADE union bosses have claimed the jobs of defence workers could be at risk if the Tories win the General Election.

I resent the way in which the media, and government, chooses to label some within the workforce as "key workers" - meaning public sector workers. (aka "Parasite workers") but leave that prejudice aside for a moment and concentrate on the news that .. "House prices in Northern Ireland need to fall even further before property in the Province is affordable for key workers such as nurses and firefigh...

Here are two highlights from new research carried out by the No Shit Sherlock! Department: 1. Migrant workers are more likely to be working as temps or in insecure work (for example not having a written contract) than any other workers. 2. Recent migrant workers are more than twice as likely as other workers to be earning less than the appropriate NMW for their age. We could have guessed the first...

You can see a TV report here. A number of SSP members including Colin Fox, former MSP and Angela Gorrie, Maryfield by election candidate visited the workers today to show their support. Solidarity has the following report from the Dundee factory, Prisme, where twelve workers have occupied, in protest at being made redundant in a scandalous

Those spoilsport Tories temporaily removed the means of production from the workers toiling at the type face. Threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of villages reliant on the type industry. This new employment opportunity was trailed on Labour List, thanks to the Blackburn comrades' discovery - they now have a bit of a top ten. But smelling the green shoots of recovery the Tories closed the...

The GMB union has called on all public sector workers to boycott the Conservatives.