Climate Change

Featured
Union Fury at Private Equity Owned Morrisons Bakery Closure in Wakefield

The BFAWU have reacted furiously at the beyond disappointing announcement today that Morrisons are to close their Rathbones site in Wakefield and make redundant 400 loyal workers, with many more in the supply chain and agency workers also impacted. Many of the workers losing their jobs have worked at the site throughout the 20 years it has… Read more »

Featured
MDU logo
MDU training professional one of first in country to receive membership award

The excellence of the Medical Defence Union’s (MDU’s) learning and development team has been recognised once more with an award for exceptional tutors and trainers. The MDU’s James Godber, senior learning and development officer, is one of the first people in the country to receive a membership award from City & Guilds. The award recognises the contribution… Read more »

Latest articles

News
power station emissions 'soar'
Miliband: Act now on rising carbon emissions

Rising carbon emissions underscore the need for the UK to take “swift and decisive action” on climate change, the environment minister David Miliband has claimed. The government has attempted to downplay provisional figures showing carbon dioxide emissions rose by 1.25 per cent last year and instead argued the rise should motivate government, business and individuals… Read more »

News
4x4s targetted in 'green' Budget
Brown’s budget ‘misses green opportunity’

Despite being widely touted as a ‘green Budget’ the chancellor has been accused of missing an opportunity to stress his green credentials. With the Conservative party increasingly stressing its green credentials, Gordon Brown was under pressure to outline his own environmental vision as he outlined his 11th, and most likely, final budget as chancellor. Outlining… Read more »