When Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday (September 27) in his conference speech that Labour is now “the political mainstream” he was clearly on to something. The public sector pay cap…Read more…
‘Without merit’
Unite and other unions have slammed a decision from the US Department of Commerce, which ruled that a 220 per cent tariff should be levied on the company’s imported CSeries planes, whose wings are…Read more…
Bogus self-employed fight win
Taxi giant Addison Lee wrongly classified its drivers as self-employed and must pay them the minimum wage and holiday pay, an employment tribunal has ruled. Unite hailed the case, which was…Read more…
Trevor sorts it out!
Trevor Simpson is a Unite convenor on the Westfield, White City construction site in west London. He has been on the site for two and a half years and during that time he has managed to make…Read more…
We voted in droves for hope
Leigh Drennan is the vice chair of Young Labour in Unite’s North West region. He believes the reason young people, who had become disengaged with politics, were suddenly inspired to get out and use…Read more…
Borrowing to eat
Nearly half of all young people have to borrow money to make it to the end of the month, illuminating the plight of millennials struggling with shrinking wages, rising living costs and insecure work….Read more…
‘Compassionate country’
Toffee-nosed Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg ignited outrage yesterday (September 14) after describing rocketing food bank usage as “uplifting”. The multimillionaire MP – tipped as a potential…Read more…
Online tax cheats
Online retail giants such as Amazon and eBay are turning a blind eye to massive tax fraud happening under their watch – to the tune of more than £1bn a year. Foreign retailers selling their…Read more…
Mental health care plea
This year Prime Minister’s questions fell on the day the NHS turned 69. It was July 5 and Theresa May told MPs that the country has “more nurses in our hospitals than we had in 2010”. At the…Read more…
‘Fight together, rise together’
For the first time ever, UK workers at the global fast food chain restaurant McDonald’s went on strike this week (September 4) in their fight against low pay and zero hours contracts. Taking a…Read more…
Hellawell out call
Almost half of Sports Direct shareholders voted to oust controversial chairman Keith Hellawell over failures to improve working conditions, as Unite carried out nationwide protests yesterday…Read more…
‘There’s a tide turning’
From the House of Commons – where Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn raised the plight of low-paid, insecure workers at PMQs – to the streets of London to the sports retailer’s warehouse in Shirebrook and…Read more…
Parents ‘exploited’
There’s nothing tougher than being a young working parent in the UK today. Young people are overrepresented in the lowest paid sectors such as retail, hospitality, and private sector health…Read more…
‘Human catastrophe’
The treatment of disabled people under the Tories is a “human catastrophe” the United Nations has said. In a damning indictment, the UN Committee on the rights of disabled people said that…Read more…
Govt slammed in disabled ‘shame’
The Tories blew £39m over a year in mostly fruitless efforts to block benefits for sick and disabled people, new figures show. The cash was spent contesting appeals from thousands of people…Read more…
NHS: £100m spend for agency GPs
As general practice faces a growing staffing crisis, the NHS has said it will pay up to £100m to agencies to recruit 5,000 new GPs, mostly from abroad. In a contract notice posted by NHS…Read more…
Govt to rob from lowest earners
Low-paid self-employed workers face a massive tax increase in April, which threatens to see many of those on the very lowest incomes in the economy fall through the cracks. Even though the…Read more…
‘Pushed into debt’
Nearly a fifth people struggling with debts have had their credit card limit automatically increased, a figure higher than for regular cardholders, new research shows. Citizens Advice found 18…Read more…
Brave new world?
Receiving a parcel on your doorstep from Amazon or any of the number of online retailers often disguises what’s going on behind the scenes where your order is processed. But a quiet revolution…Read more…
Beholden to fat cats
Tory donors gave the Conservative’s £25m – more than double the £9.5m Labour received – before this year’s general election and the party still lost 13 MPs. Donor lists released by the…Read more…