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Today’s public sector strikes
Public sector workers are out on strike again today but in much smaller numbers. The unions taking part today are the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the largest civil service trade union; Unite, representing NHS workers, Ministry of Defence firefighters and others; the University and College Union; the Immigration Services Union; Rail, Maritime and [...] Read the rest of this entry »
Misleading TUC report on union facility time
Last year TaxPayers’ Alliance research revealed that 2,840 full time equivalent public sector staff were working for the unions, instead of front line services. Today the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has released a new study looking at facility time, arguing that it provides benefits in excess of the costs to taxpayers. There is no genuinely [...] Read the rest of this entry »
Pressure continues to grow for action to cut taxpayer funding of trade unions
A new dossier of evidence demonstrating how trade unions are abusing the subsidies they get from the taxpayer has today been published by Witham MP, Priti Patel. Citing our recent research note, Taxpayer funding of trade unions 2011, Ms Patel’s dossier – as previewed over the weekend in the Sunday Express – makes the case [...] Read the rest of this entry »
Union myths unravelling
Following up on our release yesterday confronting union myths, and TPA Research Director John O’Connell’s blog for this site, I wrote for the Spectator Coffee House about the TUC using a poll which showed the public had a good idea of the value of normal public sector pensions to try and sell their misleading average [...] Read the rest of this entry »
Non-job of the week
In our report last, week, we revealed that trade unions are subsidised by taxpayers to the tune of £113 million. That is made up of an estimated £80 million in paid staff time, plus £33 million in direct payments. This is an increase of £7 million from 2009/10. One of the beneficiaries of our cash [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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