Dave Watson
Friday, 9 July 2010

Holidays

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I am a blogosphere free zone for the next few weeks while I take my summer holidays.
Thursday, 8 July 2010

Public Sector Pensions

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More nonsense yesterday from the Institute of Directors on public sector pensions. Masquerading as an 'independent report' they pr...
Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Young people and public spending cuts

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The headlines this morning focus on the impact of a tightening jobs market on graduates. Competition in the jobs market is fiercer now than ...
Monday, 5 July 2010

Bosses gain while women lose out

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More evidence today that private sector bosses are paying themselves huge pay increases, whilst lecturing everyone else on the need for pay ...
Friday, 2 July 2010

Labour Leadership

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In Leeds today at the annual UNISON UK Labour Link Forum. The morning session was taken over with a hustings for the UK leadership elections...
Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Scottish Water

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The Water Industry Commission for Scotland has published their annual report today. It shows that water bills in Scotland are £20 less tha...

Cuts and unemployment

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Very revealing Treasury leak in today's Guardian on the impact cuts will have on unemployment. They reveal that: "Unpublished es...
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Dave Watson
I am a semi-retired trade union policy wonk, now working on a range of projects.I am the Director of the Jimmy Reid Foundation, Secretary of the Keir Hardie Society and Secretary of the Socialist Health Association Scotland. Past Chair of the Scottish Labour Party.Graduate in Law from University of Strathclyde. Fellow of the RSA.I have worked in government and in the public sector. I am the author of chapters in several books and a range of publications.
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