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A statue of a coal miner

Cumbria’s new coal mine and the great jobs fallacy

Anne Chapman
16 March, 2021

A green transition could transform the region into an economic powerhouse.

A Green Industrial Revolution can breathe new life into towns like Birkenhead

Mick Whitley
25 September, 2020

The pandemic has cost jobs – green investment can replace them.

Faiza Shaheen: Johnson’s ‘build, build, build’ speech was a damp squib

Faiza Shaheen
30 June, 2020

It was mainly jingoistic rhetoric and uncosted ambitions.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

Unions welcome chancellor’s furlough announcement – but now ministers must plan for recovery

Tony Burke
1 June, 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s plan for employers to start paying towards the cost of the coronavirus job retention scheme has been welcomed by unions, writes Tony Burke.

Unite and GMB workers at Harland & Wolff shipyard

Iconic Belfast shipyard and 79 jobs saved after nine-week sit-in

Fleur Doidge
1 October, 2019

GMB and Unite workers on site at Harland and Wolff in Belfast, which now looks to have a bright future after sale announcement.

Transition away from fossil fuels must be fair to workers, say unions

Joe Lo
8 July, 2019

We must avoid the mistakes of the 1980s, says the TUC.

If Debenhams bosses want to cut costs, they should start with their outrageous salaries

Joe Lo
25 October, 2018

The company’s CEO, who looks set to cut 4,000 jobs, earned £1.3m for six months work

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.

Opposing Brexit might be the best strategy for Labour in 2018. Here’s why

Eloise Todd
29 December, 2017

The party grassroots and Labour voters are anti-Brexit. It’s this which must guide the leadership.

Here’s how automation will take up to 40 per cent of UK jobs in the near future

17 October, 2017

The speed at which AI and automation take jobs will ‘dramatically outstrip that of previous technological revolutions’, the new report warns.

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