Forum Brief: Aircraft carrier contract
Policy Consultation 31 January 2003
BAE Systems has been nominated prime contractor in the construction of the Royal Navy's two new aircraft carriers.
Forum Brief: John McFall responds to euro debate
Policy Consultation 23 January 2003
The Treasury select committee is currently undertaking an inquiry into "Britain and the euro".
Forum Brief: PFI schools
Policy Consultation 17 January 2003
The government's private finance initiative has not produced superior schools, according to a study by the Audit Commission.
Forum Brief: Temporary workers
Policy Consultation 16 January 2003
A TUC submission to a government consultation on the legal status of workers and employees demanded full employment rights for all types of temporary worker yesterday.
Forum Brief: Classroom agreement
Policy Consultation 15 January 2003
Forum members respond to a "historic" deal on overhauling classroom practices.
Union reveals pension deficit
Press Review 15 January 2003
Forum Brief: pensions green paper
Policy Consultation 19 December 2002
The Department of Work and Pensions has inivited ePolitix.com Forum members to respond to yesterday's publication of the pensions green paper "Simplicity, security and choice: working and saving for retirement".
Forum Brief: Pre-Budget Report - Childcare
Policy Consultation 28 November 2002
Gordon Brown's pre-Budget report revealed that consultations with financial intuitions would begin on a child trust fund that builds up year by year and could be drawn upon at the
Blair critic quits
Press Review 29 October 2002
Forum Brief: Minimum wage
Policy Consultation 21 October 2002
A big hike in the national minimum wage will hit "vulnerable" companies, the CBI has warned.
GMB abandons strike ballot
Press Review 3 October 2002
Union backs down on PFI strike threat
News Article 3 October 2002
The government appears to have put off a potentially damaging confrontation with trade unions over the controversial private finance initiative.
Forum Brief: Minimum wage
Policy Consultation 1 October 2002
The minimum wage will this week rise for more than a million workers.
Forum Brief: PFI
Policy Consultation 19 September 2002
Tony Blair's bridge building "redistribution" speech aimed at winning over dissenting Labour activists may have failed.
Forum Brief: Tony Blair's TUC speech
Policy Consultation 11 September 2002
In a speech meant to appeal to Labour's heartland supporters, the prime minister insisted yesterday that trade unions had been a critical influence on his government and called on them
