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		<title>Fancy a Cruise Down the Channel?</title>
		<link>http://acmblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/fancy-a-cruise-down-the-channel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 11:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A professional and honest approach to human relations can bring benefits to an employer, and a good HR  manager can certainly make it easier for a trade union to reach a negotiated outcome. But in our experience some  employers have scant regard for HR, and others simply appoint HR  mangers whose sole remit seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scandal Of Mistreatment and Low Pay</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 11:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two million UK workers are &#8216;trapped in a continual round of low-paid and insecure work where mistreatment is the norm&#8217; according to the findings of the TUC&#8217;s Commission on Vulnerable Employment, published this week.
The Commission, set up by the TUC and involving employers and independent experts as well as trade unionists, says Government, unions, employers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FE Unions Reject Pay Offer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 15:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The six Further Education  unions representing 250,000 members in England have today (May 1) rejected the employers  (Association of Colleges) pay offer of 2.5%. The six trade unions - ACM, ATL,  GMB, UCU, UNISON, UNITE - submitted a catch-up pay claim for 6% or £1,500,  whichever is the greater. This would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End 30 Year Wait For New Bank Holiday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 15:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The TUC is today (Thursday) marking the 30th anniversary of the creation of the May Day holiday - the last bank holiday to be introduced in the UK - by calling for a new autumn holiday to celebrate the great British tradition of volunteering.
The Callaghan Government introduced the May Day bank holiday on 1 May [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Occupational Health Needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The TUC has today (Monday) called on UK employers to give better occupational health assistance to the two million employees who every year believe they have become ill as a result of their jobs.
To coincide with Workers&#8217; Memorial Day - which this year focuses on good occupational health for all workers - the TUC and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Have Vocational Qualification Than Degree</title>
		<link>http://acmblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/more-have-vocational-qualification-than-degree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of people with vocational qualifications is now higher than those with degrees but the awards still suffer from negative prejudice. In an article on their website, ATL report the findings of research carried out by Edexcel which shows 38% of the population having a vocational qualification and 26% having a degree.
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		<title>Dissatisfaction Widespread Among FE Staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report published just a few days before today&#8217;s industrial action taken by members of the University and College Union (UCU), shows widespread dissatisfaction among FE staff. The report by the Learning and Skills Network (LSN), shows that:

Only 39.1% of staff say that they would recommend their organisation as a good place to work and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jumbo Jet Load of Workers Killed Each Fortnight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The equivalent of a jumbo-jet-load of passengers dies every fortnight in Britain because of the failure to ensure safe and healthy conditions in workplaces, RoSPA said as Workers’ Memorial Day approaches (April 28).
Roger Bibbings, Occupational Safety Adviser for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said: “Because workers rarely die in high-profile disasters, their [...]]]></description>
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