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Financial Times staff vote for industrial action over gender pay gap
Gender pay disputes will grow over the next year as new legislation forces large employers to reveal the average pay of their male and female staff.
CEO pay has dropped but they still earn 160 times more than the average worker
FTSE 100 chief execs saw their pay decrease 17 per cent this year but they still earn £4.5m on average.
Co-op communities: How we can take back control of the housing market
A community-owned housing scheme in London is leading the way in tackling the housing crisis
Paul Flynn MP: People should take cannabis in Parliament to show the ‘law is an ass’
Newport West MP tells Left Foot Forward that the ‘cavernous stupidity of our politicians’ is to blame for rise in drug deaths, as he launches bid to un-ban the bud.
The Rashan Charles protests show it’s time for action on deaths in police custody
Relations between police and black communities are at a shocking low. The government must now publish its delayed report into deaths in police custody.
Revealed: How the General Election saw a surge in the youth vote
New figures reveal turnout among 18-24 year olds rose above 60% this election – for the first time since 1992. This is a game-changer.
Banned far-right terror group National Action is still recruiting and training members
They have a new leader and are operating out of a warehouse in Warrington, Cheshire, says campaign group Hope Not Hate.
British Gas’s 12.5 per cent electricity hike will force more into fuel poverty
The number of people in fuel poverty grew from 3.5m to 4m from 2015 to 2016 alone. We need a national response on this unseen issue.
Nursing bursaries are being scrapped today but might a Tory backlash may be around the corner?
A Times op-ed called the move a ‘toxic political mix… driven more by ideology than logic’ and called for the policy to be scrapped.
Network Rail is flogging itself off to private firms – we can’t let it happen
Their reforms will take us back twenty years to the disastrous Railtrack era where dodgy contractors put profit before safety, leading to several major rail crashes.