Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, October 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Cleaning staff win campaign for £10 per hour wage at University of Sheffield
The University’s management have now signed an agreement with Unite representatives to confirm the decision to increase the workers’ pay from £9.52 to £10 an hour.
EXCLUSIVE: Majority of UK voters want a four-day working week, poll finds
60% of those asked were in favour of introducing a four-day working week in the UK, compared to 26% who opposed the move
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The Conservative Party’s appalling record on Islamophobia
Councillors who have shared posts calling for Muslims to be deported, described Saudis as “sand peasants” and shared material comparing Asian people to dogs have all been quietly reinstated.
Right-wing ‘anti-woke’ warriors launch alarming ideological campaign against National Trust
The directors of Restore Trust, reportedly include a financier who has backed a leading climate-sceptic lobby group.
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2, October 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Amazon could owe drivers £140 million over employee rights claims
Amazon could owe thousands of drivers who deliver its parcels an average of £10,500 compensation for each year they have delivered for the company.
Hate crimes rise to highest level on record
Racially motivated hate crimes have risen by 12%.
Why the inclusion of climate and nature priorities in the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill is a sign of progress
‘The Skills and Post-16 Education Bill was slightly unusual in that it started its life in the House of Lords.’
Kim Johnson MP: Starmer should apologise and promise he and his team will never again write for The S*n
‘When his S*n article was published after the conference, we felt doubly betrayed’
Northern Ireland protocol crisis worsens as row unfolds on Twitter
The clash between ministers over the NI protocol intensified over the weekend, with key negotiators thrashing out their differences on Twitter.
Report by MPs says government’s response to Covid was ‘one of the worst ever public health failures’
The UK has one of the world’s highest death tolls from Covid, with more than 138,000 deaths
Amnesty International warns of “unprecedented programme of rights reversal” by the government
“Ordinary people have fought hard and often bitter battles to achieve these rights – and we mustn’t let them be struck out by politicians who think they are merely getting in their way.”
