News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Companies will have to foot the bill for 'woke' trade union equality reps under proposals laid out in Labour's New Deal for Working People.
"North Sea oil workers cannot be sacrificed on the altar of Net Zero," the Unite union has told Labour as it launches a campaign against the party's "irresponsible" green agenda.
The civil service's biggest union is encouraging its members to make formal complaints to managers about the push for them to return to their offices at least 60% of the time.
Governments of every political stripe have complained that the civil service obstructs their plans. Dr David McGrogan looks at how a little known legal ruling gets in the way of bring civil servants to heel.
The leader of the GMB union, Gary Smith, has blasted Net Zero, saying: "We’ve cut carbon emissions by decimating working-class communities. The Left has been hoodwinked on this."
Critics are crying foul over Labour's plans to give union reps paid time off to campaign on 'equalities' issues, including against 'transphobia', e.g. feminists refusing to use the preferred pronouns of trans co-workers.
Drag queens should be invited into schools to make them more inclusive, the U.K.’s biggest teaching union has said in a vote to challenge the "heteronormative culture and curriculum that dominates education".
The next few days of high temperatures “may be a moment to work from home” a senior Government minister has said as unions grabbed the opportunity to demand the right to stop working if temperatures hit, er, 25°C.
Schoolchildren face further disruption in their exams this summer because of a shortage of invigilators, which unions are blaming on a fear of catching Covid in 'unsafe' school environments.
Unions and scientists have denounced Boris Johnson's announcement that self-isolation rules will end, as a poll shows three quarters of the public want them to continue, half say forever, while just 17% support the move.
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