Community Wealth Building is a new kind of economy. It offers a way of addressing the major divides in wealth and opportunity by focusing on local economies. This new book by Matthew Brown and Rhian…Read more…
Helping small businesses to build back better
I have been doing some work with a couple of smaller businesses, mostly legal and HR issues. This isn’t a sector I am very familiar with having spent most of my career working in the public sector…Read more…
Build back a better economy
Economic forecasts on the economic impact of the pandemic vary. However, they are all pretty bleak, and this emphasises the need for an effective recovery package.
There is growing support for an…Read more…
UK may have to wait 4 years for full economic recovery
The UK may have to wait until 2024 for its economy to fully recover, according to a new report, which has further dashed hopes of a quick ‘V-shaped’ economic recovery as previously predicted by the…Read more…
UK economy in April sees record decline
The UK’s economy shrank by an astonishing 20.4 per cent in April, the steepest monthly drop since records began. The Office for National Statistics (ONS), which published the latest data, called the…Read more…
Recessions kill people
Unite AGS Steve Turner is interviewed on Al Jazeera TV and calls for the economy to be opened – or risk a new recession.
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UK economy ‘among hardest hit’ globally
The UK is likely to suffer a bigger economic hit from the coronavirus crisis than any other nation in the developed world, according to a new report. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and…Read more…
‘For the nation’s benefit’
More than two months on from the promised but yet to emerge government support for the UK’s beleaguered aviation industry, Unite is warning that without urgent action regional economies will take a…Read more…
The Case for Economic Democracy
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our economy will be significant, and we will need new ideas to address the consequences. While written before the pandemic, Andy Cumbers’ (University of…Read more…
‘At a fork in the road’
Responding to a manufacturers’ body report out today (May 7) on how long businesses would need to recover from the lockdown, Unite has warned that the nation stands at ‘a fork in the road’ and the…Read more…
Members’ safe working paramount
We are in the very early stages of discussion, with much progress yet to be made before your union can be confident that the plans to re-open the economy put you, your safety and your communities…Read more…
‘National collective effort’ needed for post Covid-19 economy
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey today (April 28) called for “a coherent blueprint” for economic recovery to be drawn up for when the Covid-19 crisis ends and business resumes.
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“The chancellor’s stimulus package doesn’t go nearly far enough” Keir Starmer
“Where is the support for renters, the social care sector, public services or local authorities? The Guardian
We are living through a global emergency. There are no easy solutions. Soundbites will not turn the situation around. And all of us have…Read more…
The making of a democratic economy
Progressive writers, including me, have filled libraries with polemics against austerity or neo-liberal economics. However, we have been somewhat less prolific when it comes to setting out the…Read more…
Gizza Job!
The immortal words of Yosser Hughes is an unconventional way for an economist to start a book, but then Danny Blanchflower has often found himself at odds with conventional economic theory. His new…Read more…
The Economics of Arrival
Every month economists and commentators pour over the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures, and at budget times we worry about the projections published by the Fiscal Commission and the Office of…Read more…
In-work poverty rising
Rising employment and wages figures out today (December 11) belied the overall health of the economy as new GDP figures painted a starker picture of things to come. Both employment and…Read more…
Wages, prices and bargaining
Money is getting tight – but what do the figures say about how much, or more accurately how little, our wages have kept pace with the costs we have to pay each week?
The article Wages, prices and…Read more…
UNISON welcomes Labour’s radical, inspiring and achievable economic alternative
Working people need a Labour government and an end to Tory austerity rule.
The article UNISON welcomes Labour’s radical, inspiring and achievable economic alternative first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Tackling austerity
The Autumn 2018 UK Budget will set the spending envelope for public services for the coming years, although Scotland has some flexibility with half the budget now decided by the Scottish…Read more…