Scottish Labour Party Conference 2004
4th March 2004
Bill Speirs speech to Scottish Labour Party Conference 2004
News
STUC General Secretary to meet Kurdish hunger strikers
5th March 2004
STUC General Secretary Bill Speirs will this afternoon meet the three Kurdish men who are on hunger strike in protest at the British Government?s refusal to grant them asylum...
STUC joins Basque trade unions to condemn ?criminal? killings in Madrid
11th March 2004
The Scottish Trades Union Congress has today condemned this morning?s murder of civilians in Madrid, and has received a denunciation of the killings from ELA, the trade union centre linked to the Basque Nationalist Party...
STUC calls for the Chancellor to take action on productivity and jobs
11th March 2004
In the run up to the 2004 Budget the STUC is calling on the Chancellor to take action on productivity...
STUC to press Trade and Industry Secretary to accept that offshoring is not inevitable
16th March 2004
Commenting prior to a meeting with Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia?s Hewitt to discuss the impact of globalisation on trade and investment, Stephen Boyd, STUC Assistant Secretary said...
STUC welcomes Emergency Workers Bill
24th March 2004
The Scottish Trades Union Congress has welcomed moves by the Scottish Executive to introduce legislation allowing for greater penalties for those who attack emergency workers in the course of their duties...
STUC attacks fat cat pension pot of insurance boss
24th March 2004
The STUC has criticised insurance group Aviva for awarding their Chief Executive, Richard Harvey pay and pension increases amounting to ?2.2 million pounds at a time when many workers have lost their pensions entitlement...
?Standard Life jobs cuts another hammer blow to the Scottish economy?
31st March 2004
STUC General Secretary Bill Speirs said: ?This announcement is another hammer blow for the financial sector and the economy of Scotland as a whole...