Over a 1,100 workers employed at two Morrisons supermarket distribution centres have begun balloting for strike action in a dispute over pay. The affected distribution centres are Northwich, in…Read more…
Morrisons ‘takeover stampede’
Unite, the union representing Morrisons workers, has called for urgent talks with the supermarket amid the news that a US private equity consortium is making a move to purchase the business. The…Read more…
Sainsbury’s ‘pathetic’ pay rise slammed
Sainsbury’s 2021 pay offer to staff – a 20p increase to £9.50 an hour – has been ‘put to shame’ by Morrisons’ pledge to pay workers £10 an hour from April, Unite said today (February 26). Unite, the…Read more…
Fat cats cashing in on Covid
While the pandemic has claimed tens of thousands of lives and destroyed the livelihoods of many thousands more, some large companies have cashed in on a Covid-19 business bonanza. Still, these fat…Read more…
Green Point inspection and walkabout – the good, the not so good and art in tower blocks
Last week I went on an 8am “walkabout” in Green Point, Water Lane, E15 with local residents in response to complaints about the failure to repair the communal front entry door, which had led to strangers getting into the block to take drugs and causing…Read more…