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Tories ridiculed for proposing to ban four day week

Chris Jarvis
Today

“Yet again we witness the political gymnastics of this outdated and out of touch Conservative Party descend into a collective swoon over the terrifying prospect of a council functioning better whilst saving the tax-payer money.”

A group of people on a stage with a sign reading four day week

New petition calls for referendum on public ownership of water

Chris Jarvis
Today

Feargal Sharkey is backing the petition

WASP campaigners who have launched the petition for a referendum for public ownership of water

Labour’s achievements this week: Lifting 450,000 children out of poverty and delivering workers’ rights

Basit Mahmood
Today

Change doesn’t happen overnight, yet slowly and surely, this government is delivering after 14 years of Tory austerity

Keir Starmer

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Onay Kasab
News

MUST WATCH: Unite blasts Tory hypocrisy after government demand further ‘productivity savings’ during pay talks

Basit Mahmood
10 January, 2023

“That is absolutely ludicrous. This isn’t a factory we’re talking about, we’re talking about people who are working well beyond their contracted hours anyway”

TUC
News

TUC calls on MPs to reject ‘attack on the right to strike’ as bill comes to parliament today

Basit Mahmood
10 January, 2023

“That’s undemocratic, unworkable, and almost certainly illegal.”

Anti-strike campaign by Strike Map
News

Unions launch campaign to protect right to strike against anti-strike laws

Hannah Davenport
9 January, 2023

‘Strike Map, who launched the campaign, announced yesterday that within a few hours, representatives for over 50,000 workers had already signed the letter supporting the right to strike.’

climate change
Opinion

Labour needs to get serious about climate adaptation for our future security

Eloise Sacares
9 January, 2023

‘To tackle the phenomenon of climate anxiety that’s affecting nearly half of young people’s daily lives, we must create a sense of security that whatever the weather, our services and infrastructure will still work for us.’

An image showing bank notes and pound coins
News

FTSE 100 CEO pay is up 39% to an average of £3.4million as ordinary workers continue to struggle

Basit Mahmood
9 January, 2023

FTSE 100 chief executives are paid £3.4m on average, which works out at 103 times the £33,000 average salary for full-time UK workers

Parliament
News

Tory MPs rake in £15.2 million from second jobs while telling striking workers to show pay restraint

Basit Mahmood
9 January, 2023

Boris Johnson has received more than £1 million since October, by giving just four speeches, at a rate of more than £30,000 an hour.

Uber

Thousands sign petition to give Uber drivers real living wage

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 January, 2023

The petition calls on the company’s CEO to reduce the commission it takes from drivers.

NHS workers strike

Union says anti-strike legislation ‘scapegoats NHS workers’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 January, 2023

‘A government that has presided over 13 years of failure in our public services is now seeking to scapegoat the NHS staff and ambulance workers who do so much to care for the people of our country.’

A photo of Rishi Sunak leaving Downing Street
News

‘Baffling’: Sunak’s maths plan slammed from every direction

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 January, 2023

One commentator described the proposal to ensure all pupils continue to study maths until they are 18 as a ‘cringe-inducing lack of vision.’

‘Knives Out’: Will Boris be back in 2023?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 January, 2023

As a dire electoral future beckons the Tories, desperate times call for desperate measures, lighting the touchpaper for a possible return of Boris Johnson.

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