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1 May 2019
As delegates arrive in Blackpool for the annual conference of Usdaw, the retail and distribution union, many shop workers are facing job losses and worse pay and conditions as the retail crisis deepens.
1 May 2019
Universal Credit disaster behind foodbank rise
Universal Credit is being blamed for the record rise in the use of foodbanks as families required them to provide 14 million meals in the last 12 months.
17 April 2019
Newham bin workers ballot for strikes
Refuse workers employed by Newham Council in east London could have lost more than £20,000 each in the last decade in a dispute over grading.
17 April 2019
£100 billion for bosses - cuts for us.
MPs get extension after extension on their Brexit crisis. But there are no extensions for workers and young people on our suffocating rent and bills.
17 April 2019
20 years of the minimum wage: Fight for a real living wage for every worker
The minimum wage was one of the very few pro-worker steps taken by a right-wing Labour government
10 April 2019
Low pay, long hours, isolation - a taxi driver speaks out
"An Uber driver has to work 35 hours a week just to break even... Then to make any money you just keep racking up the hours"
3 April 2019
Chesterfield hospital privatisation plans
Chesterfield Royal Hospital is going ahead with plans to introduce a wholly owned subsidiary company - Derbyshire Support and Facilitates Services.
3 April 2019
End Tory cold cruelty: life under austerity in Merthyr
Scrap Universal Credit now: Merthyr has received a bad press as the "benefit capital of Britain". The Mirror newspaper pointed out the average male life expectancy on one of the estates is lower than Haiti's. But it's a friendly town.
13 March 2019
Tories out. Scrap Universal Credit. Fight for living wages and welfare!
Universal Credit is hardly out of the news. The suffering and anxiety it has caused is immeasurable - so much so that even some Tory MPs have been forced to highlight problems with its implementation.
6 March 2019
The Socialist spoke with a shop worker and union member, Olivia, about her conditions at work.
6 March 2019
Trade union action to end low pay now!
Poverty pay for 1.2 million public sector workers. 2.7% pay rise for MPs: More than one million public sector workers are paid less than the minimum amount needed to make ends meet, as set by the Living Wage Foundation. They calculate this as £9 an hour, or £10.55 in London.
20 February 2019
Annoyed?! I'm annoyed to be on poverty wages
There was another lively picket outside the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in London on 13 February. The staff, PCS members, are outsourced on contracts that pay poverty wages. They want to be brought back in-house and paid a living wage.
30 January 2019
Changes threaten thousands of jobs
Tesco has revealed plans to cut thousands of jobs as part of a new restructuring initiative.
9 January 2019
'Fat Cat Friday' shows where all the money's gone
I hadn't even received my first paycheque of the new year when the average chief executive of a FTSE 100 company had already 'earned' more than my entire annual salary - in less than three days!
9 January 2019
Grayling's attacks on rail workers wages 'un-fare'
The government continues to claim that Britain's economy is doing great and that everyone's wages are sky high.
28 November 2018
College lecturers in Wales strike against low pay and workload
Lecturers across Wales will be taking strike action over pay and workload on 4 and 13-14 December. This follows the fantastic ballot result of University and College Union (UCU) members who voted overwhelmingly to strike.
28 November 2018
End "poverty, ill health and despair":a benefits adviser speaks out against the cuts
I have worked, since leaving college - 22 years - solely in benefits. I have witnessed the systematic destruction of a support system meant to help those who need it most, creating a widespread situation
21 November 2018
Save the high street: public ownership, not ghost malls
This year has been a bad year for the retail sector. About 14 shops are closing a day, a net loss of 1,123 from Britain's main high streets in the first half of this year, according to accountants PwC.
21 November 2018
Housing arrears double, suicide risk soars - scrap Universal Credit!
General election now to reverse welfare attacks: Universal Credit claimants are being pushed into serious mental health problems, with some even considering suicide, according to public health researchers in the North East.
Manchester Deliveroo strike, 13.2.19, photo Tom Costello
16 November 2018
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