The unemployment rate for March 2012 according to the latest ONS labour market statistical bulletin was 8.4%, the highest since 1995. There were 2.67m unemployed people. The number in employment was 29.12m, up 9,000 on the quarter but the number of people employed in the public sector fell by 37,000.
In the three months to January 2012 the inactivity rate was 23.1% equivalent to 9.3m economically inactive people. Over the same period 173,000 people were made redundant or 70 per 1000 employees. There were 31.54 workplace jobs in December 2011. Administative and support services showed the biggest increase in workplace jobs with an increase of 44,000 to 2.49m. Vacancies totalled 473,000 in the three months to February, an increase of 15,000. There were 1.8 vacancies per 100 employee jobs.
Total pay rose by 1.4% while regular pay rose by 1.7%. Output/worker rose by 1.2% between Q2 and Q3 2011 while unit labour costs rose by 0.5%.
Labour disputes cost industry 21,000 working days in January 2012.
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Friday, 30 April 2010
Trade Union Membership 2009
The rate of union membership for UK employees in 2009 was 27.4% the same as 2008 according to a National Statistics survey published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Membership fell at about the same rate as total employment over the year. The rate for all people in employment including the self-employed was 24.7% in 2009 from 24.9% in 2008. The number of employees who are trade union members fell by 163,000 or 2.4% to 6.7 million. For all in employment, the number of members fell by 165,000 to 7.1 million or by 2.3%.
The number of female union members increased 0.2% to 29.5% but the number of males fell by 0.4% to 25.2%. Female union density was higher than males for the eighth year in a row. Both public and private sector membership fell by about 0.5%. The private sector fell to 15.1% and the public sector to 56.6% in 2009.
The nations of the UK had varying union densities. The highest density was in N. Ireland with 39.9%, Wales had 35.4%, Scotland had 31.8% and England had the lowest union density with 26.1%. London had the largest decrease in density with 2.2%, Yorkshire and Humberside came next down 0.9% and the East Midlands with 0.4%.
Taking all sectors into account 46.6% of employees worked in a workplace with a trade union presence in 2009. About a third of emplyees said their pay and conditions were affected by collective agreements. Collective agreements covered about 20% of private sector employees and 68.1% of public sector employees in 2009, a fall of 2.4% on 2008.
The number of female union members increased 0.2% to 29.5% but the number of males fell by 0.4% to 25.2%. Female union density was higher than males for the eighth year in a row. Both public and private sector membership fell by about 0.5%. The private sector fell to 15.1% and the public sector to 56.6% in 2009.
The nations of the UK had varying union densities. The highest density was in N. Ireland with 39.9%, Wales had 35.4%, Scotland had 31.8% and England had the lowest union density with 26.1%. London had the largest decrease in density with 2.2%, Yorkshire and Humberside came next down 0.9% and the East Midlands with 0.4%.
Taking all sectors into account 46.6% of employees worked in a workplace with a trade union presence in 2009. About a third of emplyees said their pay and conditions were affected by collective agreements. Collective agreements covered about 20% of private sector employees and 68.1% of public sector employees in 2009, a fall of 2.4% on 2008.
Friday, 23 January 2009
Pray For Christian Unity
Christian unity is a practice based on theology rather than the theology itself. There seem to be theological grounds for hope in practical ecumenism. The followers of Christ differ in mind and go their separate ways but there is a call to unity. The disunity in the Church is an obvious contradiction of the will of Christ and many people of all kinds feel impelled by grace to come together to pray for the unity for which Christ prayed to be faithful to that call. Dialogue based on shared convictions has helped to clear up misunderstandings and share insights bringing participants to recognise revelations they had overlooked or to which they hadn't given sufficient attention. It has also set the participants on convergent rather than divergent theological courses (Butler, 1981).
Differences also arose in the early Church. The Apostle Paul was called on to heal the divisions in the church of Corinth, there were controversies over liturgy and apostasy, Arianism, Gnosticism, Pelagianism, Marcion and Mani (Comby, 1985). Christians were divided by the Churches of the East and West in 1054 but reconciliation was attempted on two major occasions at Lyons in 1274 and Florence 1493-45. Since then the dialogue has continued (Neuner and Dupuis, 1988). Christians were again divided by the schisms and reforms of the 16th century in Europe. The people of today however who are members of these separated churches cannot be held responsible for what happened in that separation.
The Second Vatical Council (VII) in the document on Ecumenism, called for total involvement in ecumenism. It involves a complete change of attitude from a unity based on juridical principles to one based on an ecclesiology of communion in the mystery of Christ. The change of attitude can be made more real by an inner conversion without which it will not be a genuine ecumenism. In a gesture of profound significance VII called for that continual reformation of which it has always had need and recognised that in the past people on both sides were at fault (Thornhill, 1988). As a result, Christian unity is no longer sought as inviting other Christians to join the Church but as integration into the one Church willed by Christ (Neuner and Dupuis, 1988). Catholics and Anglicans have held discussions on Christian unity on a number of occasions in the ARCIC forum and a Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is held every year from 18 to 25 January.
Differences also arose in the early Church. The Apostle Paul was called on to heal the divisions in the church of Corinth, there were controversies over liturgy and apostasy, Arianism, Gnosticism, Pelagianism, Marcion and Mani (Comby, 1985). Christians were divided by the Churches of the East and West in 1054 but reconciliation was attempted on two major occasions at Lyons in 1274 and Florence 1493-45. Since then the dialogue has continued (Neuner and Dupuis, 1988). Christians were again divided by the schisms and reforms of the 16th century in Europe. The people of today however who are members of these separated churches cannot be held responsible for what happened in that separation.
The Second Vatical Council (VII) in the document on Ecumenism, called for total involvement in ecumenism. It involves a complete change of attitude from a unity based on juridical principles to one based on an ecclesiology of communion in the mystery of Christ. The change of attitude can be made more real by an inner conversion without which it will not be a genuine ecumenism. In a gesture of profound significance VII called for that continual reformation of which it has always had need and recognised that in the past people on both sides were at fault (Thornhill, 1988). As a result, Christian unity is no longer sought as inviting other Christians to join the Church but as integration into the one Church willed by Christ (Neuner and Dupuis, 1988). Catholics and Anglicans have held discussions on Christian unity on a number of occasions in the ARCIC forum and a Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is held every year from 18 to 25 January.
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