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economy

PMQs: What the PM really meant when she said ‘wages are up’

Josiah Mortimer
2 May, 2018

Her claims on Brexit Britain’s supposed economic success should be taken with a VERY large pinch of salt…

These are the 5 UK industries that will be hardest hit by Brexit, jeopardising thousands of jobs

Oscar Webb
13 March, 2018

Up to 65,000 small companies are completely unprepared for trade outside the single market, this new report warns.

British capitalism isn’t working – and business must work with unions to fix the economy

Mike Clancy
12 March, 2018

If politicians are serious about tackling low productivity, then solutions need to start involving employees, and that means unions.

City of London

Corporations rely on a healthy functioning society but think they shouldn’t have to pay for it

Prem Sikka
27 February, 2018

And acting on this neo-liberal view, the Tory government are all too happy to cut their taxes.

The leaked Brexit impact papers make the case for a second referendum stronger than ever

Keith Taylor
30 January, 2018

The official analysis shows Britain will be worse off under every Brexit outcome. Now the public know the facts, it would be fair to give them another vote.

It’s not just the economy: here’s how London’s communities will be hit by Brexit

Jean Lambert MEP
12 January, 2018

A new report reveals the unseen impact that quitting the EU will have on communities.

To transform our society we need to radically reform the language of business

Prem Sikka
9 January, 2018

We need a new vocabulary of commerce that recognises the role of workers and society in business, not simply profit.

Create three million employee-owners to reduce inequality now, says think tank

Charlotte England
21 December, 2017

Are new ownership models, that give people a stake and a say in the economy, the best way to genuinely ‘take back control’?

You couldn’t make it up: Britain LOSING almost £350m a week because of Brexit

18 December, 2017

The most reliable estimate so far shows we’re losing almost exactly as much as what Brexiteers said we’d gain.

The government ‘named and shamed’ 260 exploitative employers today. But what about public sector workers?

Oscar Webb
8 December, 2017

The government’s investigation into employers paying less than minimum wage failed to look at the unpaid work done by an estimated 2 million public servants.

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