TUC President Lesley Mercer – Employment Relations Director at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy – attended a French trade union conference in Toulouse earlier this week. The talk was all about inequality, the damage it does, and what can be done about it. The ILO has joined the growing list of global organisations expressing concern about the…
Sometimes you just need to hear the simple facts rather than a whole load of theory. Enter Richard Wilkinson, co-author of “The Spirit Level”. He was speaking at a European conference in Dublin last week, organised to mark Ireland taking over the presidency of the EU Council of Ministers, at which I represented the TUC.…
European Commissioner Olli Rehn delivered a blunt message at a European TUC conference yesterday, namely that the EU is not some kind of ‘à la carte caféteria’ that the UK government can dip in and out of as it chooses. The central debate at this 40th anniversary conference of the ETUC was about how Europe…
This year’s TUC President Lesley Mercer, from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, looks ahead to the European Trade Union Confederation’s 40th anniversary conference on Monday, where she will be representing British trade unions with General Secretary Frances O’Grady and General Council spokesperson on Europe, Billy Hayes. You can follow the conference on twitter using #ETUC40. Trade…