Working Better
Together
The new rules
Protecting workers’ rights now and after Brexit
Dave Prentis | Frances O’Grady | Peter Dowd MP
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There may be
trouble ahead
L ast year was a milestone for industrial action in the UK: the
number of workers involved in strikes dropped to just 81,000,
the smallest since records began in 1893. Does this mean that
there was no need for dispute in 2015, that it was a historically
good year to be at work in the UK? It wasn’t if you were one
of the 744,000 people who were moved to zero-hours contracts in
2015, a 19 per cent increase on the previous year; it wasn’t if you worked
for Sports Direct, where practices at the retailer’s huge Shirebrook
depot were described as “Victorian” and where thousands of agency
staff were thought to be receiving less than the minimum wage.
Swaths of the working population, from junior doctors to rail workers
to driving examiners, would contest the idea that 2015 was a positive year
for workers’ rights in the UK. And yet it was the year when Sajid Javid
claimed that “people are fed up with strike action” as he launched the
biggest attack on trade unions since the Thatcher government.
Although last year the UK’s trade unions still faced challenges with
which they were familiar – dwindling membership, the decline of
old unionised industries, a ruling party ideologically opposed to
organised labour – this year a set of new challenges has come to the fore.
Chief among these is Brexit: the UK has always been one of the lightest
employment regulators in the European Union, and many of the
protections British workers currently have were only gained through
EU membership. But this huge shift goes hand in hand with other
emerging trends: the growing “precariat” of workers whose guarantee
of employment lasts for just a few hours; ever more capable automation
and outsourcing; the changing nature of work itself. If trade unions and
their members are to adapt to these conditions, they will have to be more
active and more open to changes of their own. They may have to work
harder to protect their rights than at any time since 1893.
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4 / Frances O’Grady
With Brexit now a certainty,
the TUC’s general secretary
says this is a crucial time
to stand up for the rights
of British workers
9 / Dave Prentis
In her inaugural speech, the
Prime Minister promised to put
the interests of ordinary people
before those of the privileged
few. Will her attitude to
public services bear this out,
asks Unison’s general secretary
13 / Peter Dowd
When the government’s
own cleaners lose money on the
National Living Wage, the time
has come to re-examine the
policy, says the MP for Bootle
19 / Jonathan Bartley
The “gig economy” demands
new ideas about social security.
The Green Party’s work and
pensions spokesman discusses
one idea that’s gathering pace
Working Better Together | 3
FRANCES O'GRADY
YOUR RIGHTS AND BREXIT
Our challenge
is to make
Brexit work for
working people
A “British model”
for life outside
the EU can return
jobs and pride to
communities left
behind by recent
governments,
says the TUC’s
general secretary,
Frances O’Grady
4 | Working Better Together
L
eaving the European Union was
not the outcome most trade unions
campaigned for. But now, our
priority is to make sure that working
people do not pay the price. Investment
in the UK, the good jobs that come with
it, and the rights at work that we all rely
on, must be protected.
The initial economic signs have not
been good. The pound plummeted the
day after the vote; business confidence
has fallen and the Bank of England has
warned that it can already see signs of
jobs and investment fleeing. If the UK
mismanages the negotiations to leave,
there is a danger of locking in lower
growth for the long term.
And yet during the campaign,
concerns about economic risks did
not persuade enough voters. As much
as Remain campaigners tried to land
an argument about the threat to the
economy, jobs, prices and wages from
voting to leave, many voters instead
opted for the beguiling promise of “take
back control”.
It’s not hard to see why. Working
people paid the price for the last
economic crash, and incomes still
haven’t recovered. Average wages are
still worth £40 a week less than in 2008.
In the towns and cities hit by the loss
of heavy industry and the acceleration
of globalisation, it’s harder than ever to
get the kind of steady, well-paid job that
you can raise a family on. Unscrupulous
bosses employ migrant workers to
undercut local labour markets. And
recent governments have failed to
support those communities that are
under pressure – instead slashing their
public services while abandoning any
pretence of promoting a jobs-rich
regional and industrial policy.
If your wages haven’t risen, and your
kids can’t find a secure job or a home
they can afford, dire warnings that
wages could fall and jobs disappear are
t
The British
model must be
a stronger and
fairer country
irrelevant – as those of us on the Remain
side discovered.
The vote to leave was more than just
a verdict on the EU. It was a rejection
of the political and economic status
quo that has left millions of working
people feeling angry and powerless. No
wonder the message “take back control”
resonated so strongly with so many. The
Remain campaign messages failed to hit
home with millions of working people
who felt that they had nothing to lose.
Remain didn’t speak directly to them
about their lives, the communities they
are proud of and the problems they are
facing today.
So, with Britain having voted to
leave, there are now three priorities for
the country– and for the trade union
movement. First, to stave off any slide
into recession. Second, to recast the
UK’s economy so that it offers great
jobs for everyone and rebuilds pride and
cohesion. And third, to find a British
model for life outside the EU that
supports a stronger and fairer country.
During the referendum, the TUC
warned that the UK’s economy –
particularly our exporting industries
– could take a hit if we left the EU. We
do not want to be proved right. The
government must act fast to make
sure this concern does not become the
reality. Whatever happens, working
people must not bear the brunt of a
Brexit recession. The case for a proper
industrial strategy, supported by a state
investment bank, is now unanswerable.
The government must be ready to
intervene faster and more decisively
than it has with steelmaking if Brexit
puts the survival of vital British
industries at risk.
Within days of the referendum result,
the TUC published an action plan to keep
the economy moving, to protect jobs
and to invest in future growth. We want
the government to give the go-ahead
to big projects like the third runway at
Heathrow and to reaffirm their support
for HS2. Ministers must fast-track
investment into new high-speed rail,
broadband infrastructure, clean energy
and council homes. To help maintain
demand in the economy, they should
continue to increase the national living
wage and lift the 1 per cent pay cap on the
public sector.
The new Department for Business,
Energy and Industrial Strategy must
start to flesh-out plans for a high-skill,
high-wage economy, building on the
UK’s competitive strengths. An example
of this is in green technology, where
combining responsibilities for energy
and industrial policy in one department
is an opportunity to get a bigger share of
the $500bn renewable energy industry
for the UK. The TUC recently set out
how government support for new
low-carbon industries could bring great
new jobs to communities that have lost
their livelihoods with the demise of
heavy industry, and employment for
workers whose current livelihoods are at
risk from the change to a low-carbon UK
economy. Alongside work to rebuild our
industrial base, the government will
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t
FRANCES O'GRADY
YOUR RIGHTS AND BREXIT
need to replace lost European funding
for the regions and nations.
We also need to bring back pride to
communities who feel abandoned –
many of which voted to leave the EU.
Young people should have options to
build a life in the communities they
grew up in, rather than having to move
far from home to find work, or be
stuck with a future of insecurity and
low-quality jobs. This means a proper
regional policy, built to deliver power,
investment, strong public services and
economic growth to towns and cities
around the UK, increasing access to skills
and decent work. It means boosting pay
and conditions by spreading collective
bargaining and reinventing wages
councils to stop the good employers
being undercut by the bad.
We must propose practical responses
to the problems many communities
raised during the referendum campaign
about the impact of immigration.
People are right to worry about these
issues – and they will want to know we
have convincing solutions. We need a
crackdown on bad bosses who exploit
migrant workers and undercut local
labour markets, and a new migration
impacts fund to help direct cash to areas
where public services are most stretched.
Underpinning everything is the
pressing need to find a “British model”
for life outside the European Union, and
make sure it delivers for working people.
If the Brexit negotiations serve only
narrow or elite interests, it will deepen
divisions and make Britain’s future far
less secure. Working people must have
a genuine say in the kind of post-Brexit
settlement we reach with the EU and the
world. There is no off-the-shelf model
for this – we need time for a national
conversation to create the new British
model for our relationship with the EU,
and our place in the world.
The government must have a proper
plan in place before pulling the trigger on
Article 50. That’s why the TUC has called
on the government to pledge to meet five
tests first:
z a clear action plan to protect jobs,
industries and public services at risk
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from Brexit and to guarantee all workers’
rights currently derived from the EU
z a national debate on realistic options
for post-Brexit arrangements with
the rest of the EU and with non-EU
countries, to build a national consensus
on the mandate for negotiations
z a cross-party negotiating team
including the devolved administrations,
the TUC, CBI and civil society
z guaranteed right to remain for existing
EU citizens living and working in the
UK, and approaches made to secure
reciprocal arrangements for British
citizens living and working in the rest
of the EU
z an all-Ireland agreement on economic
and border issues.
The most urgent of these is the first – a
clear plan for the economy that stops us
falling into recession. Without a watertight plan for jobs and industry, the
living standards of working people will
suffer. We must also commit to retain
in full workers’ rights that are currently
guaranteed by Europe.
Ahead of triggering Article 50, we
need a real national conversation – a
mere invitation to submit views is not
sufficient. The government must reach
out and hear the views of people from all
parts of the UK and all sections of society.
We will need an inclusive negotiating
team, with unions, business, political
parties and the UK’s nations and regions
represented. Also ahead of Article 50,
critical issues with potential to cause
great concern and instability must
be resolved: namely the implications
of Brexit for relationships between
Northern Ireland and the Republic, and
the status of our friends, neighbours and
workmates from the rest of the EU who
have made Britain their home.
As this debate kicks off in earnest in
the coming months, the TUC will set out
our views on the best “British model”
for life outside the EU. We will strongly
advocate for continued access to the
single market. We do not want the UK
ending up a bargain-basement economy
on the fringe of the EU – our economy
should be competitive by excelling, not
by undercutting. So a deal must include
Nissan’s Sunderland plant is Britain’s largest
car factory, producing over 500,000 vehicles
a year and employing almost 7000 people.
It will face increased competition from other
factories in the Nissan Renault group,
especially if export tariffs rise
continued commitment to abide by EU
rules on workers’ rights.
We want no trade-offs made between
financial services and manufacturing
in deals to retain access to markets – we
need both sectors to thrive. The deals we
make, with the EU and for trading with
the rest of the world, must be balanced
between the needs of business, and the
wellbeing and economic security of
working people and their families.
There is no doubt that further political
and economic uncertainty lies ahead.
Working people expressed their view in
the referendum result that they wanted
to take back control of their lives, their
work and their communities – especially
in places where decent jobs and decent
wages were in short supply. They need a
voice in the negotiations and the national
debate to make sure that “left behind
Britain” is not abandoned again.
Whichever way they voted in the
referendum, trade unionists represent
THE NEW RULES
Employment
law and Brexit
HOURS WORKED AND HOLIDAY
The Holiday Pay Act 1938 gave
employees the right to one week's
paid holiday; the Working Time
Regulations of 1998, which
implemented the European
Working Time Directive, took this
up to 28 days. In the US, where
there is no provision for paid
holiday, employers offer an average
of 10 days. The directive also limits
the work week to 48 hours
(although employers can still ask
their employees to opt out) and
guarantees rest periods during the
day. Nevertheless Boris Johnson
referred to it, unironically, as
“back-breaking” in 2014.
We must abide
by EU rules on
workers’ rights
working people and their communities.
We can be the bridge that reunites
all those who demand accountability
from a political and business class that
has failed them for too long. Without
strong trade unions, working people will
once again bear the brunt. So while we
demand a seat at the table of this national
debate, we must also strengthen our own
movement, getting better at representing
and defending younger workers, workers
in SMEs and workers who don’t have the
security of a permanent contract.
The post-referendum world presents
huge challenges for trade unions and
for our members. At all times, we must
speak up for the working people we
represent, in all of their diversity. It may
be a cliché to call for a crisis to become an
opportunity, but at this great moment
of change for the UK, there is a chance
to rethink the way our society and our
economy has left so many behind – and
build a better, fairer future for Britain.
AGENCY WORKERS
The Temporary Agency Work
Directive aims to give agency
workers the same rights as
full-time employees. It was
blocked by Britain and other
countries for six years before it was
implemented in 2008, and has
remained unpopular with many
businesses since. For this reason
many believe it won’t be replaced
after Brexit.
BANKERS’ BONUSES
While the City was broadly in
favour of Remain, there is one
aspect of EU membership the
banks will be happy to lose: the
most recent Capital Requirements
Directive, which caps the variable
portion of their pay (their bonus) at
100 per cent of their fixed pay, in
order to discourage excessive
risk-taking. Banks will argue that
they need to offer bonus potential
that equals the US and Asia in
order to maintain London's status
as a financial centre.
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BREXIT AND PUBLIC SERVICES
The agenda for
public services in
a post-Brexit world
B
eing used as a political football
is inevitable given the work that
Unison members do, the pay they
receive and the services they provide.
However, what we experienced during
the EU referendum was worse than the
usual kickabout.
It quickly became apparent that the
campaign would be remembered for the
low quality of debate and dishonesty
of the protagonists. There was the
claim that an extra £350m could be
spent every week on the NHS. Migrants
(not eight years of austerity) were
blamed for pushing the health service,
schools and public housing provision
to the limit.
For the more than 70,000 of our
members from European countries who
work in public services, the campaign
would be remembered for more
ominous reasons.
Adding insult to injury was Boris
Johnson’s claim that a vote for Brexit
would be a vote for a pay rise. Millions
working in public services have had
their pay cut, frozen and now capped
to 2020. So this campaign promise will,
if it isn’t delivered, risk fuelling the
growing disconnect between politicians
and the public. It will heighten the
disaffection of those communities left
behind by globalisation and a patchy
economic recovery.
While Brexit was not the outcome
Unison wanted, it is welcome that in the
aftermath politicians have latched on to
practical ways to tackle inequality.
Theresa May, Owen Smith and Jeremy
Corbyn have been promoting proposals
for workers on boards, compulsory
collective bargaining or abolishing
zero-hours contracts respectively.
But rather than analyse the state of our
labour market, let us consider the role
public services might play in reviving the
nation. Let’s move beyond George
Osborne’s agenda of metro mayors and
powerhouses.
It is amid the debris left behind
from the referendum campaign that
public service trade unions, service
users and community groups must now
begin to repair and regroup. Working in
alliance, we must develop a shared
agenda that speaks to the real challenges
facing local public services and those
who deliver them.
Millions have
had their pay
cut or capped
until 2020
This agenda should also recognise
the role that public-sector employment
and investment can play in tackling
inequality and boosting local economies
and labour markets – especially in those
parts of the country where it was felt that
there was little to lose by voting to leave
the EU. For us, it is clear that this
t
Out of the debris
of the referendum
campaign, an
alliance must be
forged to repair the
damage done to
communities, says
Dave Prentis, general
secretary of Unison
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t
DAVE PRENTIS
BREXIT AND PUBLIC SERVICES
agenda should include at least three
central components: guaranteeing the
rights of EU citizens, and ending
austerity and the erosion of public
employment standards.
First, guarantees must be provided to
EU citizens who work in our public
services, and indeed all other sectors, that
their future living and working in the UK
is assured. We rely on the experience,
expertise and dedication of these public
servants. Since the referendum, many tell
us that they feel uncertain and scared
about the future. This is not right. It
shames our country and undervalues the
vital contribution they make to the
quality of our lives.
Second, the government must end
austerity once and for all and address
the funding needs of our public services
in all parts of the UK. This is partly
Millionaires
get tax cuts
while nurses’
pay shrinks
about meeting the expectations that
were raised during the referendum
campaign, including the promise of the
extra £350m a week for the NHS. But in
addition government decisions about
public spending must deliver the
spirit of Theresa May’s first statement
in Downing Street.
She pledged that the government she
leads will be driven not by the interests
of the privileged few but by those of
families who struggle to get by. When
the big calls were made, the new prime
minister said, her government would be
thinking of the least well off, not the
powerful and wealthy.
For this statement to mean anything,
it must be applied to government
decisions about public spending.
Since 2010, far too many decisions
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about spending priorities and the
distribution of cuts have fulfilled aims
that are diamterically opposed to the
values May espoused in her opening
speech. Think of the tax cuts for
millionaires while the real value of
pay decreased in jobs predominantly
done by women, such as nurses, social
care workers and teaching assistants.
But think also of the distribution of the
coming cuts.
Over the life of this parliament, the
government will cut £7bn from the
money it makes available to local
councils in England, with knock-on
effects through the Barnett formula to
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
This is on top of the 40 per cent grant
reduction since 2010.
Research by Unison shows that the
average cut in local authority grant
between 2013-14 and 2019-20 is £863 per
household in the ten most deprived
areas of the country. This is more than
twice the cut in the ten least deprived
areas. In the ten least deprived areas, the
average cut in grant in the same period is
£36 per household.
The biggest losers were residents
in Hackney, north-east London.
They face grant cuts between 2013-2014
and 2019-2020 of £1,037 per household.
The smallest losers were residents in
Hart in Hampshire, who face a cut
in grant of £268 per household.
Hackney residents face a cut in revenue
support grant/dwelling almost four
times greater than Hart. Just behind
Hackney on the list were many of our
great cities in the north of England and
BY NUMBERS
Brexit’s challenge
to public services
70,000
Unison members from the EU are
working in public services
10%
of registered
doctors are
from other
countries in the EU
15%
of academic staff
in UK universities
are from other
countries in the EU
the Midlands.
Finally, the potential of public-service
employment needs to be fully realised
as part of a concerted push to share
opportunity and prosperity across the
UK. There was a time, in the not-too
distant past, when jobs in public services
were one of the pillars of decently
Outsourced
and casualised
jobs need to
be rebooted
rewarded work in all our communities.
They presented a fair employment
standard for pay, breaks, overtime and
pensions that other employers sought to
match. And although that remains the
case for some, cuts, outsourcing,
privatisation and casualisation are eating
away at the foundations.
In those parts of the country that have
suffered most from deindustrialisation,
this will undoubtedly be perceived as
just another symptom of a seemingly
unstoppable and inevitable decline in the
availability of decent jobs. In the period
ahead, those jobs that have been
outsourced and casualised (social care is
now 90 per cent privately provided, with
zero-hours contracts dominant) need to
be rebooted as fairly paid, public-sector
jobs. At the same time, local authorities
£7bn
Reduction in budget provided to
local councils in England over the
life of this parliament
24bn
Minimum reduction in
yearly public sector income
by the mid-2020s according
to the government’s own
modelling of Brexit scenarios
need to be equipped to regenerate their
economies and communities by, for
example, building, insulating and
repairing homes and other infrastructure.
They must push up standards through
job creation and procurement.
These are challenging times for
public services and trade unions. But
we must remember that public services
and trade unions are what pull us
through challenging times. Not only
in every city, but also in every small
village and town, away from the thinktank analysts and media spotlight,
Unison activists will be fighting to
sustain and revive public services and
communities after the Brexit vote.
They are the unfashionable heroes who
will help rebuild our country, and all
power to them.
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FAIR PAY
Lucrative public
contracts should be
denied to companies
that exploit loopholes
in fair-pay legislation,
says Peter Dowd,
Labour MP for Bootle
A
reasonable starting point
in arguing for a living wage
could be the European Social
Charter, which, among other things,
says: “All workers have the right to a fair
remuneration sufficient for a decent
standard of living for themselves and
their families.”
Put simply, employers should pay
their staff enough money to live on –
at face value, uncontroversial. In the
abstract, few disagree with the concept
of “a fair day’s pay, for a fair day’s work”.
But, in practical terms for many workers,
that is as far as it goes.
The apparent reticence on the part
of many employers to pay reasonable
wages has been one of the driving forces
behind a statutory living wage. There is
nothing new here. Legislative action
securing the workplace has been
required in many spheres for decades:
health and safety, working hours, equal
pay and anti-discrimination. In fact,
state intervention in wage rates isn’t
new, either, so why all the kerfuffle over
a living wage?
Historically, the protection and
enhancement of the rights of employees,
including the concept of fair pay, has
been an incremental process, with the
odd spurt of progress here and there.
There are things that simply cannot be
left to the market, hardly a radical
assertion. However, George Osborne
had barely made the announcement
introducing the “National Living Wage”
t
If the government’s
own cleaners can’t
get a true living
wage, who can?
for those 25 and over before employers
responded. One employer body argued
that the “increase may force some to
reduce hours and benefits for their
employees”. Expeditious interventions
of this kind didn’t quite amount to the
business community getting parts of its
retaliation in first, but they were not far
off. Similar unfounded concerns were
expressed when the national minimum
wage was introduced in April 1999.
Governments rarely force anyone to
do anything until it becomes imperative
to do so. In fact, all governments are
regularly criticised for being too
lackadaisical when it comes to
intervention in a wide range of policy
areas. My email traffic from pressure
groups, corporates, professional
lobbyists, trade unions and – dare I say –
constituents is witness to that.
In practical terms, a number of
companies were quick off the block in
their responses to the new pay regime.
Put starkly, many employees are paying
the price in the form of cuts to holiday
pay, premium pay rates and night-time
pay, among other benefits. One high
street coffee company reportedly told its
staff that they would no longer be getting
a free panini at lunch hour. It is worth
noting that the same company’s profits
grew by 8.5 per cent, to £241m, in the
year to May 2015. This is a company that
has apparently not paid corporation tax
in the UK since 2007.
As the game of cat and mouse begins,
the search for loopholes starts in earnest.
Employees transmute into “former
employees” and become, as if by magic,
company directors of their own
businesses. Sole trading is another
wheeze. This newly acquired status
becomes some form of freedom for the
individual. No one is quite sure what the
new freedoms actually are: freedoms to
pay your own National Insurance
contributions, or your own tax with the
advice of your own accountant, your own
company insurance, and so it goes on.
Everyone is equal but, of course, some
are more equal than others.
Understandably, much discussion
is heard about the needs of investors
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PETER DOWD
FAIR PAY
and shareholders who will not or
cannot afford to implement a fair-wage
regime. But what about the poor
taxpayer? In the background noise,
a pretty important fact goes unnoticed,
namely that the taxpayer picks up the
bill for those employers that cannot
or will not pay their employees fair
pay or, in some infamous cases, will
not even pay their own due taxes.
At the last count, £11bn of taxpayers’
money was spent topping up the pay of
low-paid employees.
This is not about bashing business,
nor is it about “them and us”, although
the disparity in executive pay versus
shop-floor pay is outstanding. It is not
about the politics of envy. It is simply
about what any investor or shareholder
would expect: a fair return on the
resource they put into a business. The
same principle applies to an employee.
Employers’ attempts to find loopholes
in fair-pay legislation simply would
not wash if they were in relation
to a different area of employment law,
such as health and safety regulation.
The Health and Safety Executive,
based in my constituency, would
take a pretty unambiguous approach
to such serious breaches. But many
companies feel free to do just that as far
as fair pay is concerned.
Another large employer in my
constituency, at least for the time being,
is HMRC. With almost 3,000 people
employed here there are, unsurprisingly,
many offices to clean. But there is
something seriously wrong when even
the government itself cannot guarantee
that the cleaners who service its offices
will be paid the living wage and not face
cuts to holiday pay, lunch breaks or hours
to offset the cost of its National Living
Wage policy.
The recent events in relation to 30
cleaners employed in Bootle by ISS, a
facilities management company that
cleans HMRC offices, are a case in point.
The cleaners have taken strike action
in protest at their wage conditions given
that they were no better off financially
despite the introduction of the new
£7.20 living wage rate. But in all the
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politics of this issue there are real
people being affected by the way in
which some employers have chosen
to game the system.
Newspaper articles exploring the
dispute, in the context of the living wage,
The taxpayer
picks up
the bill for
unfair pay
set out very clearly the reality for
low-paid workers. In one case, a woman
who was expecting a weekly pay rise of
£15 as a result of the new wage rate,
found that her hours were cut from 30 to
28 hours to pay for the increase. In other
reported cases, the “adjustment” in work
rotas meant that the some cleaners lost
as little as 15 minutes from their shifts
so that the pay bill did not rise and the
burden was passed to the worker.
Evidently, other cleaners had their work
hours reduced, leading to a loss of tax
credits of up to £50 weekly.
Welfare rights advisers, it appears
from the reports, suggested that
financially some workers would be better
off receiving benefits rather than going
out to work. What a state of affairs.
HMRC claims to be vigilant, but it lacks
oversight of the offshore company that
employs the cleaners in its own offices
The links between HMRC and ISS
are difficult to understand. Under a
PFI contract established 15 years ago, it
appears the HMRC estate was sold to
Mapeley, an offshore company based in
Bermuda, where companies pay no
corporation tax. HMRC then leased back
the buildings from another subsidiary
of that company. It transpires that yet
another subsidiary, Salisbury FM,
contractually operates the offices, and
this company, in turn, subcontracts the
cleaning to ISS. Confused?
Ostensibly, ISS has previously reduced
working hours or the number of cleaners
in offices. One of the larger HMRC
offices in Bootle – in fact, very close to
my own constituency office – has 19
floors. Apparently there used to be two
cleaners to each floor, but now there are
insufficient cleaners to cover each floor.
It is reported that ISS, which is itself
headquartered abroad, doubled its profits
last year to £250m whilst this year
increasing its dividend by 51 per cent.
Inevitably, some employers will struggle
to pay the National Living Wage – but
ISS does not appear to be one of them.
The HMRC example is a classic case
of a well-meaning policy generating
unintended consequences. Some
large employers are using the living
wage as a mechanism to cut in-work
benefits and protect profits at the
expense of their employees. This is
causing workers to lose money when
working tax credits are factored in.
Nonetheless, such companies still benefit
from lucrative public contracts.
This has two effects. First, it
undermines the economic arguments
behind the minimum and living wage,
which is essentially that they exist to
stop government having to subsidise
poorly paying employers. Second, it acts
as a disincentive to people to get into
work and so reduce their “welfare
dependency”. There are sanctions
aplenty on the individual, but it is
business as usual for the company.
On a broader level, it also
demonstrates the potentially deep
disconnect between the labour force and
those at the top of such companies. To
address this, the issuing of government
contracts could be linked to a company
demonstrating a practical commitment
to paying its workers a living wage,
instead of trying to find loopholes.
Of course, there is a clear balance that
needs to be drawn. On the one hand,
the government needs to do more
to help those employers who will
genuinely struggle to pay the living
wage, with financial support if necessary.
On the other, it needs to tackle the
behaviour of those companies that
continue to use the implementation of
the living wage as an excuse to cut
in-work benefits. Surely the lowest-paid
employees, more often women, do not
have to be last in the queue as far as wage
fairness is concerned?
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Perhaps this is not surprising,
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from sexual exploitation and violence;
to the right of women in the Middle
East to drive cars. In the UK, too, there
is opposition when women seek to
lead civic and democratic institutions,
whether that is Ofsted, the Ministry of
Justice, or the Labour Party.
I listened as the new Prime Minister
identified the importance of gender
equality in her first address on the
steps of 10 Downing Street. It was a
significant step in the right direction,
after a period in which we have not
even made slow progress, but have
instead gone backwards in the pursuit
of equality and justice for women.
Through its programme to
deregulate and to allow employers to
exercise more discretion in relation
to pay and promotion, government
has, since 2010, opened the door to
increasing sex discrimination in the
public as well as the private sector.
Three-quarters of teachers are women
and yet if a woman teacher asks for
flexible working she is told she has no
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right; if she is pregnant she is shown
the door; and if she stands up for her
right to pay progression she is told it’s
not her turn. Given excessive freedoms
and flexibilities, too many schools
are asserting themselves as breeding
grounds for misogyny.
This is something the Prime Minister
could address if she really has the
desire, and which would provide the
first indication that she is on a different
trajectory to her predecessor. Her cri de
coeur to “make Britain a country that
works not for a privileged few but for
every one of us” must lead to equality
of opportunity and better outcomes for
women and girls.
As a nation, if we continue to deny the
talents and skills of women, our chances
of achieving a better future for Britain (if
that is possible) outside of the EU will
also be seriously undermined. Indeed,
it is the TUC and unions such as the
NASUWT that have had the leadership,
courage and conviction to make the case
for gender equality in workplaces and
at the heart of government, through
legislation to secure equal pay, to end
sex discrimination, and to extend
maternity rights.
In the debate about our country’s
future after Brexit, our aim should be
to make the UK the best place in the
world for work and workers. Doing so
will aid our productivity and economic
competitiveness. So, it is time that
government created space to engage
with unions in developing solutions,
rather than misrepresenting our
organisations as part of the problem.
Investing in high-quality early years
education and childcare would be an
important start in helping to secure
equal opportunities for all, especially
for girls from the poorest households. It
is also essential to invest a greater share
of our national income in primary and
secondary education, and to end the
false claim that spending on schools has
been protected since 2010.
The gender equality challenge must
be top of the list of Brexit priorities.
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Technology is creating
both wealth and
deep social divisions.
An unconditional,
universal income is
the rational response,
says Jonathan Bartley,
Green Party work and
pensions spokesman
W
hen I was a child our family
never travelled abroad. We
ate out perhaps once a year.
The majority of my clothes were second
hand. But the experts prophesied a day
was coming when everything would
change. A technological revolution
would generate wealth and we would all
earn more and have to work a lot less.
Fast forward forty years and our world
has certainly been transformed. As
a country we are richer than ever. Many
buy their clothes new, dine out regularly
and holiday in the sun.
But this summer, one in five British
parents also skipped a meal so there was
enough food for their children. Threequarters of a million people are on
zero-hours contracts. Millions more are
one pay cheque away from homelessness.
It is inequality that has prospered.
Rather than greater stability, time for
leisure and our families, we find
ourselves working for low wages, for
longer, for less security.
When things go wrong, it is those on
low incomes who are told to tighten their
belts while we wait for more
consumption-driven growth to provide a
fix. But this is the very thing fuelling the
climate change that most threatens the
future for us all. The brave new world
has turned out to be a new age of
insecurity. Business as usual is not an
option. We need to think in new ways
about how we create the social security
to which we should all be entitled.
The welfare state was set up for a
different age, a time when it was
assumed that jobs were full time and
permanent; that work paid enough to
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The economy of the
future needs its own
Beveridge report
support a family; that illness or layoff
were unusual and temporary; that
payouts would come from a system into
which each worker had contributed. It
was a time when William Beveridge
defined the great evils as “want, disease,
ignorance, squalor and idleness”, not
“inequality, uncertainty, low pay,
underemployment and overwork”.
The Green Party proposes reform: a
universal basic income, a tax-free, regular
payment made unconditionally to
everyone, without means test or work
requirement. It would be cheap and
transparent to administer, and the
money clawed back through taxation of
high earners. A simplification of the
overcomplicated benefits system, with
additional payments for additional needs
around housing and disability, it would
provide real security. It would also
provide the freedom, choice and
opportunity we were all promised.
A basic income would offer greater
financial independence and a platform
for anyone wanting to pursue a new
venture or start a small business.
Whether for those moving between
work and education, or in and out of
employment, it would eliminate the
benefit trap. It would recognise the huge
value of unpaid and voluntary work.
It would support those who have caring
responsibilities in an ageing society.
It would provide a guaranteed safety
net, combating poverty and promoting
equality. But it would not penalise
claimants with difficult and complex
lives. For most of the million people who
rely on foodbanks because of problems
with their benefits, it would be a lifeline.
But perhaps most crucially, a basic
income would look to the future, not the
past. The welfare state has failed to keep
up with economic and social change, let
alone anticipate it. A basic income would
address the insecurity workers face in the
context of more technological advance
and globalisation.
One in five UK adults already say they
have tried to find work managed via
“sharing economy” platforms such as
Upwork or Handy. Roughly 4.9 million
have succeeded. For many it is already
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THE CASE FOR A BASIC INCOME
Insecurity
is the lifeblood
capitalism
feasts on
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their only or main source of income.
This is a trend that is only going to
grow. At one level the explosion of
the “gig economy” and the growth
of crowdworking is positive. It offers
the things technology should provide:
flexibility, and the ability to work from
home or work hours that suit a better
work-life balance.
But this way of working also has
the potential to leave many people
increasingly vulnerable. It can mean
direct competition with workers in India,
eastern Europe and other parts of the
world, via online platforms. Organised
through virtual labour exchanges,
it poses real risks to employment
standards, and threatens a race to the
bottom. The benefits that come with
stable employment are often absent.
Insecurity such as this is the lifeblood
on which vampire capitalism feasts.
Afforded the opportunity, neoliberalism
will drain whatever it can from the
workforce, letting markets drive down
wages and employment standards – as
well as quality of life – still further.
The Green Party champions the basic
income because it puts power back in
the hands of working people. It moves
the idea of welfare away from simply
insurance, to being a universal right.
It acknowledges that the problem is
not that there isn’t enough money to
go around, but that the money is in the
wrong hands. It rejects the falsehood that
we need to keep plundering the planet to
create a bigger economic pie to sort out
our difficulties. As the fantasy of the
illusory technological utopia has shown,
the slices are never shared out equally.
One of the more surprising findings in
the aftermath of the EU referendum
came in a Lord Ashcroft poll. He and his
researchers found that half of both
leavers and remainers agreed with the
statement that modern capitalism was
largely a “force for ill”. There is clearly an
appetite for change. But the EU vote also
laid bare a country divided between
north and south, rich and poor, disabled
and non-disabled, migrant and local,
working poor and “scroungers”. The
strategy of successive governments has
NOT FOR EVERYONE?
So why didn’t the
Swiss want UBI?
Surely no one would vote against
paying themselves an extra £24,000
a year? And yet that’s what the Swiss
did this June, when a 78% majority
voted against replacing social
security with a generous Universal
Basic Income (the NHS, for
reference, costs roughly £2,000 per
capita per year). The answer, in a
word, is immigration. The Swiss
People’s Party (SVP) argued that
“billions” would flock to the
country to receive UBI, and this
proved more persuasive than the
promise of a no-strings basic salary
for everyone; those arguing for UBI
elsewhere will need to answer the
same fear.
been one of divide and rule, to find
others to blame, rather than taking
responsibility for policy failure.
Those same politicians know that as
long as people blame one another, they
won’t work together for change. The
basic income, with its stand for equality
and its rejection of Victorian notions of
“deserving” and “undeserving”, can be
the vehicle to unite them.
After the Second World War, the
country came together and set up the
welfare state. It did so at a time when we
were far poorer, and far more in debt as a
share of our national income, than we are
today. What was needed was the vision
and the political will to make it happen.
It is time for workers to unite and
demand a more secure future in the form
of the basic income. Politicians from
different parties in the UK are beginning
to embrace the idea. Around the world,
others are doing so too. The Canadian
province of Ontario is to trial a scheme,
while there are plans to launch schemes
in Finland, the Netherlands and France.
The basic income is an idea whose time
has surely come for the UK too.
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TUC head office
Trades Union Congress (TUC)
Congress House
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3LS
020 7636 4030
[email protected]
www.tuc.org.uk
General secretary
Frances O’Grady
Assistant general secretary
Paul Nowak
TUC regional offices
TUC Midlands
24 Livery Street
Birmingham B3 2PA
0121 236 4454
[email protected]
TUC North
Commercial Union House
39 Pilgrim Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 6QE
0191 232 3175
[email protected]
TUC North-west
4th floor
Jack Jones House
1 Islington
Liverpool L3 8EG
0151 482 2710
[email protected]
TUC South-east
Congress House
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3LS
020 7467 1220
[email protected]
TUC South-west
Ground Floor, Church House
Church Road
Filton
Bristol
BS34 7BD
0117 947 0521
[email protected]
TUC Wales
Transport House
1 Cathedral Road
Cardiff CF11 9SD
029 2034 7010
[email protected]
TUC Yorkshire and the Humber
Room 101, West One
114 Wellington St
Leeds LS1 1BA
0113 242 9696
[email protected]
TUC services
Unionlearn
Congress House,
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3LS
020 7079 6920
[email protected]
www.unionlearn.org.uk
Director
Tom Wilson
Trade union education manager
Liz Rees
Scottish trade
union services
Scottish Trade Union Congress
STUC Centre,
333 Woodlands Road
Glasgow G3 6NG
0141 337 8119
[email protected]
www.stuc.org.uk
General secretary
Grahame Smith
Affiliated
trade unions
Accord
Simmons House
46 Old Bath Road
Charvil
Reading
Berkshire RG10 9QR
0118 9341 808
[email protected]
www.accord-myunion.org
Main trades and industries
Staff of HBOS
General secretary
Ged Nichols
President
Tom Harrison
Advance Union
2nd Floor, 16/17 High Street
Tring
Herts HP23 5AH
01442 891122
[email protected]
www.advance-union.org
Main trades and industries
Staff of Santander
General secretary
Linda Rolph
Aegis
1-3 Lochside Crescent
Edinburgh Park
Edinburgh EH12 9SE
Main trades and industries
Workers in financial
services
General secretary
Brian Linn
Associated Society of
Locomotive Engineers
and Firemen (ASLEF)
77 St John Street
Clerkenwell
London
EC1M 4NN
020 7324 2400
[email protected]
www.aslef.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Railways (drivers,
operational supervisors
and staff)
General secretary
Mick Whelan
National organiser
Simon Weller
President
Tosh McDonald
Association of Educational
Psychologists (AEP)
4 Riverside Centre
Frankland Lane
Durham DH1 5TA
0191 384 9512
[email protected]
www.aep.org.uk
General secretary
Kate Fallon
President
Carole Adair
Association of Flight
Attendants (AFA)
United Airlines Cargo Centre
Shoreham Road East
Heathrow Airport
Hounslow
Middlesex TW6 3UA
020 8276 6723
[email protected]
Association of School
and College Leaders
130 Regent Road
Leicester
LE1 7PG
0116 299 1122
[email protected]
www.ascl.org.uk
Main trades and industries
School, college and
system leaders
President
Allan Foulds
Vice-president
Sian Carr
Immediate past president
Peter Kent
www.unitedafa.org
Main trades and industries
Airline cabin crew
International President
Sara Nelson
Association of Teachers
and Lecturers (ATL)
7 Northumberland Street
London WC2N 5RD
020 7930 6441
[email protected]
www.atl.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Teachers, lecturers and
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support staff in nursery,
primary, secondary schools,
sixth-form and FE colleges
General secretary
Mary Bousted
Deputy general secretary
Peter Pendle
President
Mark Baker
Bakers, Food and Allied
Workers’ Union (BFAWU)
Stanborough House
Great North Road
Welwyn Garden City
Herts AL8 7TA
01707 260150
[email protected]
www.bfawu.org
Main trades and industries
Food industry workers
General secretary
Ronnie Draper
Britannia Staff Union (BSU)
Court Lodge, Leonard Street
Leek
Staffordshire ST13 5JP
01538 399627
[email protected]
www.britanniasu.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Staff of The Co-operative
Bank and Britannia
General secretary
John Stoddard
British Air Line Pilots
Association (BALPA)
BALPA House
5 Heathrow Boulevard
278 Bath Road
West Drayton UB7 0DQ
0208 476 4000
[email protected]
www.balpa.org
Main trades and industries
Airline pilots and flight
engineers
General secretary
Jim McAuslan
Head of industrial relations
British and Irish Orthoptic
Society (BOS)
Salisbury House
Station Road
Cambridge CB1 2LA
01353 665 541
[email protected]
www.orthoptics.org.uk
Chair
Lesley-Anne Baxter
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President
Tim Pottage
British Dietetic
Association (BDA)
5th floor, Charles House
148-149 Great
Charles Street
Birmingham B3 3HT
0121 200 8080
[email protected]
www.bda.uk.com
Main trades and industries
Science of dietetics in the
private and public sector
Broadcasting Entertainment
Cinematograph and Theatre
Union (Bectu)
373-377 Clapham Road
London SW9 9BT
020 7346 0900
[email protected]
www.bectu.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Backstage, technical,
production and support
workers in broadcasting,
film, theatre cinema, live
events and digital media.
General secretary
Gerry Morrissey
President
Jane Perry
CABA
8 Mitchell Court
Castle Mound Way
Central Park
Rugby
Warwickshire
CV23 0UY
01788 556366
[email protected]
www.caba.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Accountants; past and
present members of
ICAEW
Chief executive
Kath Haines
Finance and resources
director
Rachel Bodill
Chartered Society of
Physiotherapy (CSP)
14 Bedford Row
London WC1R 4ED
020 7306 6666
[email protected]
www.csp.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Chartered
physiotherapists,
physiotherapy students
and assistants
Director of employment
relations and union services
Claire Sullivan
Chair of national industrial
relations committee
Jill Barker
The Communications
Union (CWU)
150 The Broadway
Wimbledon
London SW19 1RX
020 8971 7200
[email protected]
www.cwu.org
Main trades and industries
Postal and
telecommunications
workers
General secretary
Dave Ward
Senior deputy general
secretary
Tony Kearns
President
Jane Loftus
Chief executive
Andy Burman
Head of employment relations
Debbie O’Rourke
CWU – ALGUS National Branch
Carlton Park, Building 3,
Narborough
Leicestershire LE19 0AL
0116 200 3620
[email protected]
www.cwualgus.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Staff of Alliance and Leicester
Secretary
Debbie Cort
Chairperson
Pete Greenwood
Community
456C Caledonian Road
London N7 9GX
0800 389 6332
[email protected]
www.community-tu.org
Main trades and industries
Steel, textiles, footwear,
betting shops, social care,
voluntary sector, logistics and
justice services
General secretary
Roy Rickhuss
Educational Institute
of Scotland (EIS)
46 Moray Place
Edinburgh EH3 6BH
0131 225 6244
[email protected]
www.eis.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Teachers, lecturers and
associated educational staff
in Scotland
General secretary
Larry Flanagan
President
Tommy Castles
Equity
Guild House
Upper St Martin’s Lane
London WC2H 9EG
020 7379 6000
[email protected]
www.equity.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Performance workers in
theatre,film, television, radio,
variety and fashion
General secretary
Christine Payne
President
Malcolm Sinclair
FDA
8 Leake Street
London
SE17NN
08454701111
02074015555
[email protected]
www.fda.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Senior managers and
professionals in public
service. The FDA Unison
Joint Venture Managers
in Partnership represents
senior managers in the
NHS.
General secretary
Dave Penman
Local authority fire brigades
General Secretary
Matt Wrack
Assistant General Secretary
Andy Dark
President
Alan McLean
Musicians’ Union (MU)
60-62 Clapham Road
London,
SW9 0JJ
020 7582 5566
[email protected]
www.theMU.org
Main trades and industries
Music profession
General secretary
John Smith
Assistant general secretaries
Horace Trubridge
David Ashley
Fire Brigades Union (FBU)
Bradley House
68 Coombe Road
Kingston Upon Thames
Surrey KT2 7AE
02085411765
offi[email protected]
www.fbu.org.uk
Main trades and industries
GMB
22 Stephenson Way
Euston, NW1 2HD
020 8947 3131
[email protected]
www.gmb.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Local government, NHS,
education, retail, security,
distribution and utilities
General secretary
Paul Kenny
Hospital Consultants
and Specialists
Association (HCSA)
1 Kingsclere Road
Basingstoke
RG25 3JA
01256 771777
National Association
of Schoolmasters Union
of Women Teachers
(NASUWT)
Hillscourt Education
Centre
Rose Hill
Rednal
Birmingham
B45 8RS
0121 453 6150
nasuwt@
mail.nasuwt.org.uk
www.nasuwt.org.uk
[email protected]
www.hcsa.com
Main trades and industries
Hospital specialists and
consultancies
General secretary
Eddie Saville
Main trades and industries
Education
General secretary
Chris Keates
Deputy general secretary
Patrick Roach
President
Graham Dawson
Part-time Courses in Industrial
Relations and Human
Resource Management
Keele Management School
Keele Management School (KMS) is a well-established provider of Industrial
Relations and Human Resource Management courses taught by experienced
adult educators who are also active researchers. We attract students from a
wide range of backgrounds and institutions (ACAS, trade unions, public and
private sector organisations and educational establishments) providing
useful and interesting networking opportunities.
Our part-time courses are all suitable for those in full-time employment and
flexible enough to allow completion by students from anywhere in the UK.
All courses are delivered through a combination of short residential
teaching sessions at Keele supported by distance learning.
Courses offered:
• University Certificate in Industrial Relations
• Postgraduate Masters (or Postgraduate Diploma) in either:
Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations and HRM, Industrial Relations and
Employment Law, European Industrial Relations and HRM
Further information: www.keele.ac.uk/kms/pgparttime
Course Director: Dr Kim Mather: 01782 734524, [email protected]
Course Administrator: Claire Butters: 01782 734367, [email protected]
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NAPO – Trade Union and
Professional Association
for Family Court and
Probation Staff
4 Chivalry Road
London SW11 1HT
020 7223 4887
[email protected]
www.napo.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Probation and family court staff
General secretary
Ian Lawrence
Assistant general secretary
Dean Rogers
National Association
of Colliery Overmen, Deputies
and Shotfirers (Nacods)
Wadsworth House
130-132 Doncaster Road
Barnsley S70 1TP
01226 203743
natnacods@
googlemail.com
www.nacods.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Mining
General secretary
Rowland Soar
President
Terry Fox
National Association
of Co-operative
Officials (NACO)
6a Clarendon Place
Hyde
Cheshire SK14 2QZ
0161 351 7900
[email protected]
www.naco.coop
Main trades and industries
Managers and professionals
in the co-operative
movement
General secretary
Neil Buist
National Union of Teachers
Hamilton House,
London WC1H 9BD
020 7388 6191
[email protected]
www.teachers.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Teachers
General secretary
Christine Blower
President
Philipa Harvey
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National Union of
Journalists (NUJ)
Headland House
308-312 Gray’s Inn Road
London WC1X 8DP
020 7843 3705
[email protected]
www.nuj.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Journalism
General secretary
Michelle Stanistreet
National Union of Rail,
Maritime and Transport
Workers (RMT)
Unity House
39 Chalton Street
London NW1 1JD
020 7387 4771
[email protected]
www.rmt.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Railways and shipping,
underground and road
transport
President
Peter Pinkney
Nationwide Group Staff Union
Middleton Farmhouse
37 Main Road
Oxfordshire OX17 2QT
01295 710767
[email protected]
www.ngsu.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Staff of Nationwide
Building Society Group
General secretary
Tim Poil
President
Nicola Huddlestone
Nautilus International
1-2 The Shrubberies
London, E18 1BD
020 8989 6677
[email protected]
www.nautilusint.org
Main trades and industries
Maritime professionals at
sea and ashore
General secretary
Mark Dickinson
Union of Shop, Distributive
and Allied Workers (Usdaw)
188 Wilmslow Road
Manchester M14 6LJ
0161 224 2804
[email protected]
www.usdaw.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Retail and distribution
sectors
General secretary
John Hannett
Deputy general secretary
Paddy Lillis
President
Jeff Broome
Unison
UNISON Centre
130 Euston Road
London NW1 2AY
0800 857 857
www.unison.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Local government, health
care, utilities, education,
transport, voluntary sector,
housing associations,
police support staff
General secretary
Dave Prentis
President
Chris Tansley
Unite the union
Unite House
128 Theobald’s Road
Holborn
London WC1X 8TN
020 7611 2500
www.unitetheunion.org
Main trades and industries
Manufacturing,
engineering, energy,
construction, aerospace,
civil aviation, health, IT,
youth work
General secretary
Len McCluskey
United Road Transport
Union (URTU)
Almond House,
Stanley Green Business Park
Cheadle Hume
Cheshire SK8 6QL
0161 486 2100
[email protected]
www.urtu.com
Main trades and industries
Drivers, warehousing,
ancillary workers in the
logistics and food sectors
General secretary
Robert Monks
President
Phil Brown
Prison Officers’
Association (POA UK)
Cronin House
London N9 9HW
020 8803 0255
[email protected]
www.poauk.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Prison, correctional
and secure
psychiatric workers
General secretary
Steve Gillan
Deputy general secretary
Andy Darken
National chairman
PJ McParlin
Professional Footballers’
Association (PFA)
20 Oxford Court
Manchester M2 3WQ
0161 236 0575
[email protected]
www.thepfa.com
Main trades and industries
Professional football
Chief executive
Gordon Taylor
Society of Chiropodists
and Podiatrists (SCP)
1 Fellmongers Path
London SE1 3LY
020 7234 8620
[email protected]
www.scpod.org
Chief executive
Joanna Brown
Society of Radiographers (SoR)
207 Providence Square
London SE1 2EW
020 7740 7200
[email protected]
www.sor.org
Main trades and industries
National Health Service
Chief executive officer
Richard Evans
Transport Salaried Staffs’
Association (TSSA)
Walkden House
London NW1 2EJ
020 7387 2101
[email protected]
www.tssa.org.uk
Main trades and industries
White-collar transport
workers
General secretary
Manuel Cortes
Undeb Cenedlaethol
Athrawon Cymru (UCAC)
Ffordd Penglais
Aberystwyth SY23 2EU
01970 639950
[email protected]
www.athrawon.com
Main trades and industries
Welsh teachers’ union
General secretary
Elaine Edwards
President
Elen Davies
Union of Construction, Allied
Trades and Technicians (UCATT)
UCATT House
London SW4 9RL
020 7622 2442
[email protected]
www.ucatt.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Construction and building
General secretary
Bryan Rye
University and College
Union (UCU)
Carlow Street
London NW1 7LH
020 7756 2500
[email protected]; www.ucu.
org.uk
Main trades and industries
Academics, lecturers and
related staff in further and
higher education
General secretary
Sally Hunt
Writers’ Guild of
Great Britain (WGGB)
134 Tooley Street
London SE1 2TU
020 7833 0777
[email protected]
www.writersguild.org.uk
General secretary
Bernie Corbett
Yorkshire Independent
Staff Association
Yorkshire House
Bradford BD5 8LJ
01274 472453
[email protected]
Main trades and industries
Yorkshire Building Society
staff association
Confederations
of unions
Confederation of Shipbuilding
and Engineering Unions
128 Theobalds Road
London WC1X 8TN
Council of Civil Service Unions
160 Falcon Road
London SW11 2LN
020 7223 8340
[email protected]
Electricity Sector Trades
Union Council
New Prospect House
London SE1 7NN
020 7902 6600
[email protected]
www.prospect.org.uk
Public and Commercial
Services (PCS)
160 Falcon Road
London SW11 2LN
020 7924 2727
[email protected]
www.pcs.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Civil and public servants
General secretary
Mark Serwotka
Assistant general secretary
Chris Baugh
President
Janice Godrich
Prospect
New Prospect House
8 Leake Street
London SE1 7NN
020 7902 6600
[email protected]
www.prospect.org.uk
Main trades and industries
Professionals, managers
and specialists
General secretary
Mike Clancy
Deputy general secretaries
Garry Graham
Dai Hudd
Leslie Manasseh
President
Alan Grey
The Citizen’s Income Trust
promotes research and debate on the desirability and feasibility
of a Citizen’s Income – an unconditional and nonwithdrawable
income for every individual as a right
of citizenship.
(A Citizen’s Income is sometimes called a Basic Income
or a Universal Basic Income)
A Citizen’s Income would
• reduce the poverty and unemployment traps,
• create a platform on which everyone would be free to build,
• enhance social cohesion, and
• reduce inequality and poverty.
A Citizen’s Income would be
ŖſPCPEKCNN[HGCUKDNG
• easy to understand, and
• cheap and simple to administer.
For news, articles, book reviews, ‘101 Reasons for a
Citizen’s Income’, and much more, see our website:
www.citizensincome.org
Registered charity 328198
We work in partnership with Basic Income UK, www.basicincome.org.uk, BIEN,
www.basicincome.org, and the Citizen’s Basic Income Network Scotland, www.cbin.scot.
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Non-affiliated
unions and staff
associations
British Dental
Association (BDA)
64 Wimpole Street
London W1G 8YS
020 7935 0875
[email protected]
www.bda.org.uk
Chief executive
Peter Ward
President
Alasdair Miller
British Medical
Association (BMA)
BMA House
London WC1H 9JP
020 7387 4499
[email protected]
www.bma.org.uk
Chief Executive
Keith Ward
General Federation
of Trade Unions
The Lodge
84 Wood Lane
Leicestershire LE12 8DB
01509 410 853
[email protected]
www.gftu.org
Lloyds TSB Group Union (LTU)
St John’s Terrace
Bedford MK42 9EY
01234 262868
[email protected]
www.ltu.co.uk
General secretary
Mark Brown
Belfast BT9 6DP
028 9066 1831
[email protected]
www.nipsa.org.uk
General secretary
Brian Campfield
Offshore Industry Liaison
Committee (OILC)
106 Crown Street,
Aberdeen, AB11 6NQ
01224 210118
oilc.rmt.secretary@
gmail.com
www.oilc.org
Regional organiser
Jake Molloy
Police Federation of
England and Wales
Federation House
Highbury Drive
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7UY
01372 352 000
[email protected]
www.polfed.org
General secretary
Andy Fittes
Chairman
Steve White
Retail Book, Stationery and
Allied Trades Employees
Association (RBA)
PO Box 3855
Swindon SN4 4EB
01793 855 786
[email protected]
www.the-rba.org
President
David Pickles
National officer
Paul Lee
National Association
of Head Teachers
1 Heath Square
Haywards Heath
West Sussex RH16 1BL
0300 30 30 333
[email protected]
www.naht.co.uk
General secretary
Russell Hobby
Royal College of
Midwives (RCM)
15 Mansfield Street
London W1G 9NH
0300 303 0444
[email protected]
www.rcm.org.uk
Chief executive
Cathy Warwick
President
Lesley Page
National Union
of Students (NUS)
Macadam House
275 Gray’s Inn Road
London WC1X 8QB
0845 5210 262
[email protected]
www.nus.org.uk
Chief executive
Simon Blake
Royal College of Nursing (RCN)
15 Mansfield Street
London W1G 9NH
0300 303 0444
press.offi[email protected]
www.rcn.org.uk
General secretary
Peter Carter
President
Cecilia Anim
Northern Ireland Public
Service Alliance (Nipsa)
Affiliated to the Irish
Congress of Trade Unions
Harkin House
Voice (the union for education
professionals)
2 St James’ Court
Derby DE1 1BT
01332 372337
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contact@voicetheunion.
org.uk
www.voicetheunion.org.uk
General secretary
Deborah Lawson
International
organisations
Education International
5 Boulevard du Roi
Albert II
B-1210 Brussels, Belgium
00 32 2 224 0611
headoffi[email protected]
www.ei-ie.org
General secretary
Fred van Leeuwen
President
Susan Hopgood
European Economic and
Social Committee (EESC)
99 Rue Belliard
B-1040 Brussels, Belgium
00 32 2 546 9011
[email protected]
www.eesc.europa.eu
General secretary
Luis Planas Puchades
President
Henri Malosse
European Federation
of Building and Wood
Workers (EFBWW)
45/3 rue Royale
B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
00 32 2 227 1040
[email protected]
www.efbww.org
General secretary
Sam Hagglund
President
Domenico Pesenti
European Federation of Food,
Agriculture and Tourism (EFFAT)
38 Rue Fossé-aux-Loups
Boîte 3, B-1000
Brussels, Belgium
00 32 2 218 7730
[email protected]
www.effat.org
General secretary
Harald Wiedenhofer
President
Bruno Vannoni
European Federation of
Journalists (EFJ)
Résidence Palace
155 Rue de la Loi
B-1040 Brussels, Belgium
00 32 2 235 2200
[email protected]
http://europe.ifj.org
General secretary
Ricardo Gutiérrez
President
Mogens Blicher Bjerregård
IndustriALL
ITUH, Boulevard du Roi
Albert II, 5 (Boîte 10) B-1210
Brussels, Belgium
00 32 2226 0050
[email protected]
www.industriall-europe.eu
General secretary
Jyrki Raina
President
Berthold Huber
European Public Services
Union (EPSU)
Rue Joseph II, Boîte 5
B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
00 32 2 250 1080
[email protected]
www.epsu.org
General secretary
Jan Willem Goudriaan
President
Annelie Nordstrom
European Trade Union
Committee for Education
(ETUCE)
5 Boulevard du Roi
Albert II
B-1210 Brussels, Belgium
00 32 2 224 0692
[email protected]
www.csee-etuce.org
General secretary
Martin Rømer
President
Christine Blower
European Trade Union
Confederation (ETUC)
5 Boulevard du
Roi Albert II
B-1210 Brussels, Belgium
00 32 2 224 0411
[email protected]
www.etuc.org
General secretary
Bernadette Ségol
President
Ignacio Fernandez Toxo
European Trade Union Institute
for Research, Education, Health
and Safety (ETUI- REHS)
Boulevard du Roi Albert II
Boîte 4, B-1210
Brussels, Belgium
Tel: 00 32 2 224 0470
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.etui.org
Director
Philippe Pochet
European Transport Workers’
Federation (ETF)
Rue du Marché aux Herbes
105, Boîte 11, B-1000
Brussels, Belgium
00 32 2 285 4660
[email protected]
DIRECTORY
www.itfglobal.org/etf
General secretary
Eduardo Chagas
Deputy general secretary
Sabine Tier
International
Federation of Building and
Wood Workers (IFBWW)
54 Route des Acacias
CH-1227, Carouge-Geneva
Switzerland
00 41 22 827 3777
[email protected]
www.bwint.org
General secretary
Ambet Yuson
President
Per Olof Sjoo
International Federation
of Journalists (IFJ)
International Press Centre
Block C, 155 Rue de la Loi
B-1040 Brussels, Belgium
00 32 2 235 2200
[email protected]
www.ifj.org
General secretary
Beth Costa
President
Jim Boumelha
International Labour Office
310 Nelson House,
Dolphin Square
London SW1V 3NY
020 7798 5681
[email protected]
www.ilo.org/london
International Labour
Organisation (Geneva)
4 Route des Morillons
CH-1211 Geneva 22
Switzerland
00 41 22 799 6111
[email protected]
www.ilo.org
Director general
Guy Ryder
International Trade Union
Confederation
5 Boulevard du Roi Albert II
B-1210 Brussels
Belgium
00 32 2 224 0211
[email protected]
www.ituc-csi.org
General secretary (HQ)
Sharan Burrow
President
João Antonio Felicio
Irish Congress of Trade Unions
31/32 Parnell Square
Dublin 1, Ireland
00 353 1 8897777
[email protected]
www.ictu.i
Useful contacts
Association of Liberal Democrat
Trade Unionists
(ALDTU)
London E10 6JH
aldtu.blogspot.co.uk
Battersea and
Wandsworth TUC
London SW4 6DZ
020 8877 7304
[email protected]
www.bwtuc.org.uk
Centre for Local
Economic Strategies
Manchester M4 5DL
0161 236 7036
[email protected]
www.cles.org.uk
Centre for Policy Studies
London SW1P 3QL
020 7222 4488
[email protected]
www.cps.org.uk
Certification Office
for Trade Unions and
Employers’ Associations
London NW1 3JJ
020 7210 3734
info@certoffice.org
www.certoffice.org
Class: Centre for
Labour & Social Studies
London WC1X 8TN
020 7611 2569
[email protected]
www.classonline.org.uk
Communist Party of Britain
Croydon CR0 1BD
020 8686 1659
[email protected]
www.communistparty.org.uk
Conservative Party
London SW1H 9HQ
020 7222 9000
www.conservatives.com
Co-operative Party
London SE1 3SD
020 7367 4150
[email protected]
www.party.coop
Corporate Watch c/o
Freedom Press,
London E1 7QX
020 7426 0005
[email protected]
www.corporatewatch.
org.uk
Demos
London SE1 2TU
0845 458 5949
[email protected]
www.demos.co.uk
Scottish Police Federation
5 Woodside Place
Glasgow G3 7QF
0141 332 5234
[email protected]
www.spf.org.uk
General secretary
Calum Steel
Chairman
Brian Docherty
Department for Transport
Great Minster House
33 Horseferry Road
London SW1P 4DR
0300 330 3000
www.dft.gov.uk
Department for Work and
Pensions
Caxton House
Tothill Street
London SW1H 9NA
020 7712 2171
www.dwp.gov.uk
Department for Business,
Energy and Industrial Strategy
1 Victoria Street
London SW1H 0ET
020 7215 5000
www.bis.gov.uk
Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NS
020 7210 4850
[email protected]
www.dh.gov.uk
Disability Rights UK
London
EC1V 8AF
020 7250 3222
enquiries@disabilityrightsuk.
org
www.disabilityrightsuk.org
Discrimination Law
Association
PO Box 63576,
London
N6 9BB
0845 478 6375
[email protected]
www.discriminationlaw.org.
uk
European Commission
(UK office)
London
SW1P 3EU
020 7973 1992
www.ec.europa.eu
Fabian Society
London
SW1H 9EU
020 7227 4900
[email protected]
www.fabians.org.uk
www.hse.gov.uk
Independent Police
Complaints Commission
London
WC1V 6BH
0300 020 0096
[email protected]
www.ipcc.gov.uk
Industrial Injuries Advisory
Council
London
SW1H 9NA
020 7499 5618
[email protected]
www.iiac.org.uk
Institute for Public Policy
Research (IPPR)
London
WC2N 6DF
020 7470 6100
[email protected]
www.ippr.org
Institute of Employment Rights
Liverpool L3 8EG
0151 207 5265
offi[email protected]
www.ier.org.uk
International Centre for Trade
London SW4 9RL
020 7498 4700
[email protected]
www.ictur.org
Keningtons Chartered
Surveyors
72-75 Marylebone High Street
London W1U 5JW
020 7224 2222
www.keningtons.com
[email protected]
Labourstart.org
London N3 2LG
07846 658571
[email protected]
www.labourstart.org
Labour Party
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 6PA
0845 092 2299
www.labour.org.uk
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Labour Research
Department
London
SE1 8HF
020 7928 3649
[email protected]
www.lrd.org.uk
Labour Women’s Network
[email protected]
www.lwn.org.uk
Liberal Democrats
London
SW1P 3AE
020 7222 7999
[email protected]
www.libdems.org.uk
Liberal Party
41 Sutton Street
Liverpool L13 7EG
northwestliberalparty@
hotmail.co.uk
www.liberal.org.uk
London Coalition Against
Poverty
London
E1 7QX
07932 241737
londoncoalitionagainst
[email protected]
www.lcap.org.uk
Moorish Solicitors
Oxford House,
Oxford Row
Leeds LS1 3BE
033 3344 9600
[email protected]
www.morrishsolicitors.com
Senior partner
Paul Scholey
National Institute of Adult
Continuing Education
Leicester LE1 7GE
0116 204 4200
[email protected]
www.niace.org.uk
National Shop Stewards
Network
PO Box 54498,
London E10 9DE
[email protected]
www.shopstewards.net
New Unionism
Cheshire WA14 2PX
00 64 27 8191 999
[email protected]
www.newunionsim.net
NHS Support Federation
113 Queens Road
Brighton BN1 3XG
01273 234822
[email protected]
www.nhscampaign.org
Pensions Regulator
Brighton BN1 4DW
0870 6063636
customersupport@
thepensionsregulator.gov.uk
www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk
Child Poverty Action Group
London N1 9PF
020 7837 7979
[email protected]
www.cpag.org.uk
Popularis
Southampton SO40 3LR
0116 254 2259
[email protected]
www.popularis.org
Prison Reform Trust
London EC1V 0JR
020 7251 5070
[email protected]
www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk
Citizens’ Income Trust
London SE10 0QQ
020 8305 1222
[email protected]
www.citizensincome.org
Low Pay Commission
London WC1B 4AD
020 7271 0450
[email protected]
www.lowpay.gov.uk
Social Security Advisory
Committee
Caxton House,Tothill Street
London SW1H 9NA
020 7412 1506
[email protected]
www.ssac.org.uk
UNI Global Union
8-10 Avenue Reverdil
CH-1260 NYON
Switzerland
+41 22 365 21 00
www.uniglobalunion.org
Main trades and industries
Service sector, including;
cleaning, security,
commerce, finance,
gaming, graphical and
packaging, hair and
beauty, information,
communication and
technology aervices,
media, entertainment and
arts, post and logistics,
sport, temporary and
agency workers, tourism.
General Secretary
Philip Jennings
Deputy General Secretary
Christy Hoffman
Scottish Women’s Aid
2nd floor, 132 Rose Street
Edinburgh EH3 3JD
0131 226 6606
info@scottishwomensaid.
org.uk
www.scottishwomensaid.
org.uk
Shelter
88 Old Street
London EC1V 9HU
0808 800 4444
[email protected]
www.shelter.org.uk
Social Market Foundation
London SW1P 3QB
020 7222 7060
[email protected]
www.smf.co.uk
Public Concern at Work
London SE1 9QQ
020 7404 6609
[email protected]
www.pcaw.co.uk
Ruskin College
Dunstan Road,
Oxford OX3 932
01865 554331
[email protected]
www.ruskin.ac.uk
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Chartered Accountants
Acre House
11-15 William Road
London
NW1 3ER
020 7388 7000
info@hwfisher.co.uk
www.hwfisher.co.uk
Socialist Educational
Association
6 Preston Avenue,
E4 9ML
020 8531 9836
[email protected]
www.socialisteducation.org.
uk
Society of Labour Lawyers
12 Baylis Road
London, SE2 7AA
020 7837 2808
[email protected]
www.societyoflabourlawyers.
org.uk
Solidarity Federation
PO Box 29,
SW Postal Delivery Office
Manchester M15 5HW
0161 232 7889
[email protected]
www.solfed.org.uk
Stonewall
London SE1 7NX
Tel: 020 7593 1850
[email protected]
www.stonewall.org.uk
Keele University
Centre for Industrial
Relations,
Keele Management School
Darwin Building,
Keele University
Keele,
Staffordshire ST5 5BG
01782 734367
[email protected]
www.keele.ac.uk
Thompsons Solicitors
London WC1B 3LW
020 7290 0000
[email protected]
www.thompsons.law.co.uk
Trade Union Friends of Israel
London, WC1N 3XX
020 7222 4323
info@tufi.org.uk
www.tufi.org.uk
Main trades and industries
TUFI was established to
strengthen the links
between the Israeli,
Palestinian and British trade
unions movement.
TUFI aims to build
support for the Middle
East peace process in the
UK labour movement and
promote efforts towards
finding a just and lasting peace
settlement for both Israelis
and Palestinians.
UK National
Workstress Network
9 Bell Lane, Syresham,
Brackley, NN13 5HP
07966 196033
[email protected]
www.workstress.net
Unions 21
7 Northumberland Street
London, WC2N 5RD
020 7782 1535
[email protected]
www.unions21.org.uk
United Campaign to Repeal the
Anti-Trade Union Laws
39 Chalton Street
London NW1 1JD
0151 702 6927
[email protected]
www.unitedcampaign.org.uk
The Work Foundation
London SW1H 0AD
0207 976 3565
partnership@
theworkfoundation.com
www.theworkfoundation.com
Popularis Electoral Services
Nutsey Lane
Totton
Southampton
SO40 3LR
02380 867335
[email protected]
www.popularis.org
Specialists in
Management of ballots
and elections
Slater and Gordon Solicitors
50-52 Chancery Lane,
London WC2A 1HL
0800 916 9084
www.slatergordon.co.uk
Offices in London,
Birmingham, Manchester,
Chester, Cardiff and
throughout the UK
Specialists in
Representing unions and
their members in cases
including personal injury;
criminal defence; clinical
negligence; employment;
and professional discipline
Workers’ Educational
Association
4 Luke Street
London
EC2A 4XW
020 7426 3450
[email protected]
www.wea.org.uk
Working Lives
Research Unit
London Metropolitan
University
166-220 Holloway Road,
London,
N7 8DB
020 7133 5132
workinglives@londonmet.
ac.uk
www.workinglives.org
Work Stress Network
9 Bell Lane
Syresham
Brackley
NN13 5HP
07966 196033
[email protected]
www.workstress.net
Main trades and industries
Advocating the awareness
of mental health within
the workplace in the public
and private sector
Network Coordinator
Ian Draper
WELFARE RIGHTS
CONFERENCE 2016
Universal Credit - next steps
Universal Credit represents the most significant reform of the welfare system in a generation.
With eight million people set to be affected, and worrying signs that low-paid workers are amongst
the hardest hit by the new reforms, are you ready for the challenges ahead?
EXPERT SPEAKERS
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OPPORTUNITY TO NETWORK AND SHARE IDEAS
8 September – Manchester
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To book your ticket and for more information, visit
www.cpag.org.uk/welfare-rights-conference
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