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Pressure continues to grow for action to cut taxpayer funding of trade unions

December 19, 2011 | Author Jonathan Isaby

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 »

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Non-job of the week

November 30, 2011 | Author Andrew Allison

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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