4th October 2006
Assistant Secretary David Moxham said: “STUC welcomes the decision by ASDA to abolish wage differentials for those under 18. The decision shows that the company is prepared to take seriously its commitment to train and retain younger workers.
9th October 2006
The STUC together with Karen Gillon MSP are today (Monday 9th October) meeting Home Office Minister Gerry Sutcliffe and Scottish Labour MPs to demand changes in the Corporate Homicide Bill that is due to be debated in Parliament on Tuesday (10th October).
9th October 2006
The STUC will Chair a lobby of Westminster MPS by victims families tomorrow (Tuesday 10th October) ahead of the second reading of the Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Bill in the commons in the afternoon.
13th October 2006
The STUC will hold a conference on the future of the Scottish water industry on Monday 16 October the main purpose of which is to launch research recently commissioned from the Public Research Network (PIRN) at Strathclyde University.
25th October 2006
A conference aiming to reduce the risk of ill-health and injury to young people in the workplace is being held by the STUC and the Health & Safety Executive in Glasgow tomorrow (Wednesday 25 October).
31st October 2006
Tonight, Tuesday 31 October 2006, a memorial bust will be unveiled at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Argyle Street Glasgow. The bust is a tribute to Asian waiter Surjit Singh Chhokar who was brutally murdered on a Lanarkshire street on 4 November 1998.
31st October 2006
The STUC has emphasised the need for effective legislation to ensure companies and individual directors, who place the lives of workers and members of the public at risk, are held fully accountable for their failures that result in death. The call follows the guilty plea lodged by Network Rail in relation to health and safety breaches that led to 31 deaths in the Ladbroke Grove disaster in 1999.