Women with children face a wider gender pay gap, says a new report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies
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Women with children face a wider gender pay gap, says a new report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies
The article Women penalised financially for having children first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
More than a million families with a household income below £30,000 are in extreme debt, and ongoing wage stagnation is making the problem worse, according to a new report published today (Tuesday) by…Read more…
Over three million households (one in eight UK households) are paying more than 25% of their household income on repaying unsecured debts.
The article No-one should be forced to choose between…Read more…
It is hard not to take it personally. Rarely a week goes by without some keyboard warrior with a newspaper byline telling unions how they ought to do this, that or the next thing better. …Read more…
Stagnant wages make problem worse for families struggling with low pay
The article More than a million families struggle with extreme debt first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
I am catching up on my reading and have been enjoying the rather brutal kicking that the UK fund managers “trade body” the Investment Association (IA) has recently received following its nonsensical claim that their fees don’t matter. The IA claimed th…Read more…
As many as 3.2 million households, and more than 7 million people may be struggling with problem levels of debt, according to a new Centre for Responsible Credit study we commissioned with Unison. A large number of those households face debt levels that they may never clear. This debt leaves them…Read more…
The 23 August is the UN International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery – a day to remember the horrors of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Estimates vary but around 11 million people…Read more…
It is well known that economic growth has still been excessively reliant on households, even in spite of the unprecedented falls in real earnings of recent years. Today the TUC publishes analysis that shows just how heavy pressures on some households have become. The ‘Britain in the Red’ report, by…Read more…
Today saw the publication of our (The Centre for Responsible Credit) final report from the joint TUC and Unison commissioned ‘Britain in the Red’ project. The project has been looking at available aggregate and household survey data to track the extent of household over-indebtedness: particularly…Read more…
Steel giant Tata’s Port Talbot steelworks is back in profit – but workers’ jobs still hang in the balance. Just six months ago the plant – Tata’s biggest UK steelworks – was making a loss of…Read more…
New plans to hit firms that sell tax avoidance schemes with heavy fines are useless – because the Tories have stripped HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) of its resources for catching cheats, leading…Read more…
The United Left is the dominant faction within UNITE, including both General Secretary Len McCluskey and a majority of the union’s Executive Council. It appears from the letter below that there is an attempt to split the United Left in Scotland, a m…Read more…
Local government services in the historic city of Bristol will be shredded because of swingeing cuts imposed by the Tory government, trade unions warned today (Monday August 22). Care for…Read more…
And from the south east of England to Scotland – Unite is out to defeat the UK’s housing misery crisis. Unite Scotland announced (August 19) it is backing calls for a national strategy to…Read more…
Laying bare the experiences of more than 2,200 UNISON members working in councils and schools, delivering the local services we all rely on
The article Under pressure, underfunded and undervalued…Read more…
Global hotel chains stand accused of making London one of the most ‘unethical’ tourist destinations in the world by its own workforce in a hard hitting report launched today (Monday August 22) by…Read more…
Well said David Orr. Not that often I say that.
“Landlords paid £9bn in housing benefit
A study from the National Housing Federation (NHF) shows that private landlords are being paid £9.3bn in housing benefit this year, up from £4.6bn in 2008. In the same period the number of private renters…Read more…
Union will be producing information for members from the EU and their families to reassure them of their rights
The article Union sets up network to support members who are EU citizens first…Read more…
Deliveroo Collective action via social media brings hope to gig economy workers Campaigners hope Deliveroo couriers’ victory over pay will rally more temporary, self-employed workers to organise…Read more…