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Social Justice

Flybe airplane - Arpingstone / Public domain

Flybe employees stand to lose so much more than their jobs

Prem Sikka
9 March, 2020

Current practices at Flybe (and many other firms) mean employees risk losing their pensions too when companies collapse.

Prem Sikka: Why we should resist the rush to a cashless society

Prem Sikka
28 February, 2020

Accounting expert Prem Sikka warns of a new social divide.

The Royal College of GPs is failing members and patients over assisted dying

Richy Thompson
24 February, 2020

A majority of members backed a shift in the organisation’s policy on the issue, says Humanist UK’s Richy Thompson.

Amazon accidents tip of health and safety iceberg in UK workplaces

Fleur Doidge
18 February, 2020

Hundreds of thousands of UK workers every year are injured, killed or fall ill as a result of working practices, statistics show.

Image by Heidi kiss from Pixabay

What we learnt from speaking to voters about wealth taxes

Robert Palmer
18 February, 2020

Tax Justice UK research finds focus groups back taxing the rich – but hesitate to criticise billionaires.

Why Big Data is becoming the front line in the battle for workers’ rights

Andrew Pakes
17 February, 2020

The surveillance sphere no one is talking about.

Grenfell

As the Grenfell disaster inquiry starts again, it’s time for social housing tenants to be heard

Kevin Gulliver
29 January, 2020

Upcoming legislation must give a real voice to social housing tenants.

University of Liverpool - London campus

University of Liverpool staff consider strike over lower redundancy pay

Fleur Doidge
27 January, 2020

Staff made redundant in 2018 from Liverpool offered £15,000 more on average, says union.

FOI response to Neil Cowan from the Dept of Work and Pensions

Tories deny knowledge of poverty caused by Universal Credit delays

Fleur Doidge
27 January, 2020

Freedom of Information response claims department has no analysis of payment delays, despite a 2019 admission by the then secretary of state.

Traveller and gypsy communities win victory over evictions

Josiah Mortimer
24 January, 2020

It’s a blow to the Tory government’s hopes of criminalising trespass.

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