ICTU’s David Begg is in a reflective mood. He admits that workers received no gains under the last wage agreement because inflation wiped them out. He even went so far…

Solidarity: it’s one of those old words, out of contemporary fashion, too redolent of a collectivist politics which has been superseded by more post-modernist relationships. If some of us hang…

Raise corporation tax? Introduce legal right to trade union representation? Whoever makes these arguments are usually met with a coup de grace: even thinking about doing these things will drive…

To the ‘low-wage, low-spend, low-tax, low-service economy’ we can now add another prefix – ‘low-leave’. That’s the conclusion of the European Industrial Relations Observatory report on working time. *  The…

‘If you can’t something nice . . ‘ goes the old adage. Of course, in the political hurley-burley such sentiments are the first casualty. That, and truth. And never more…