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Kevin Rowan

Kevin Rowan

Kevin Rowan column

Like many organisations the TUC has thrown its weight behind a total smoking ban in all workplaces and enclosed public places in the consultation over the current Health White Paper that ends today.Read

Kevin Rowan column

No-one can have missed the ongoing high-profile Gate Gourmet dispute.Read

Kevin Rowan column

The economic figures released last week showing a significant rise (15,000) in the number of people claiming unemployment benefit caused a good deal of unappealing attention.Read

Kevin Rowan

Despite the recent public tensions between the Bank of England and the Treasury, most people will acknowledge that the economy is doing quite well.Read

Kevin Rowan column

Everyone will welcome the number of reported work-related deaths for 2003-4 being down on previous years. But 12 deaths is still far too high - especially when a report by the Health and Safety Executive says they were avoidable.Read

Kevin Rowan column

As a young union representative in the shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness there were many controversial issues and the one that always led to the most heated debates was the introduction of a smoking policy at work.Read

Kevin Rowan

Job segregation happens in many occupations and affects many groups within the labour market.Read

Kevin Rowan column

When does a blip become a trend? And when does a trend become continuing, sustained success?Read

Kevin Rowan column

Two things are `truisms' that are not very easy to change.Read

Kevin Rowan

Employers regularly rely on temporary workers, supplied through agencies, to help them meet fluctuating demands.Read

Kevin Rowan

Efforts to tackle the fact that the North-East endures the highest rates of incapacity benefit are welcome, enabling people to access work as a positive initiative for all concerned.Read

Kevin Rowan column

One of the key benefits of decentralising policy delivery to the regional level is greater cohesion in that delivery.Read

Kevin Rowan column

It is time for a complete ban on smoking in workplaces.Read

Kevin Rowan column

Far from being in the grip of a `compen- sation culture', evidence shows that the vast majority of workers injured or made ill by their employment fail to get any recompense.Read

Kevin Rowan column

As a recipient of pretty decent local government services, the parent of children who go to a pretty good school, a patient who received excellent service from the NHS, I do despair at the constant attacks on the public sector from the CBI.Read

Kevin Rowan

It's not impossible not to comment on last week's General Election, but it is irresistible.Read

Kevin Rowan

Last week events throughout the region commemorated Workers Memorial Day, a day when trade unions and other campaign groups seek to remember those who have been killed as a result of their employment, and to remind those who can affect change that we need to do much more to end these preventable deaths.Read

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The General Election is in many ways a huge distraction.Read

Kevin Rowan

Kevin Rowan is regional secretary, Northern TUC.Read

Kevin Rowan column

The long-awaited implementation of the information and consultation regulations last Wednesday will be welcomed by many workers in the North-East.Read

Author Profile

Kevin Rowan is regional secretary of Northern TUC and also writes a weekly column for The Journal covering all major business issues affecting the North East. Kevin was formerly the regional organiser of the GMB where he was been involved in a series of campaigning issues. He was brought up in Cumbria and studied government and public policy at Northumbria University.

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