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9 October 2019
Labour and the fight for a shorter working week
Labour conference has resolved the next Labour government should reduce the average full-time working week to four days (32 hours) - without loss of pay - within a decade. This will be welcomed by workers.
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"
9 November 2016
Horror of health-wrecking toil for Polish migrants
I am working as an interpreter for the NHS. I see Poles in hospitals and clinics who have problems with health. There are thousands of cases and there is no way to describe everything that I see every day.
4 November 2015
Long hours ruining health without lifting productivity
Studies now show that working long hours doesn't just damage your health - it doesn't even get more done.
30 April 2014
May Day 2014 - Step up the fight for a socialist world!
The first of May is traditionally a day of international workers' solidarity, celebrated by working class fighters around the world
28 November 2012
Answering the lies of the Con-Dems
On 5 December Tory axe-man Chancellor George Osborne will stand at the dispatch box in parliament and read out a long list of more pain-promising austerity measures...
Marx: Profit is 'the unpaid labour of the working class'
15 March 2012
Capitalism isn't working: Time to fight for socialist change
Unless you are part of the richest 1% then life under austerity is getting increasingly difficult. Peter Taaffe looks at the nature of capitalism
NSSN demo
13 September 2011
We need a programme of action to fight back!
Never before has it been more necessary for the trade unions and labour movement to combat the pessimism and hopelessness which pervades the capitalist media. Peter Taaffe outlines a positive, realistic programme against the abyss of mass unemployment and poverty which the capitalist system threatens.
21 January 2011
Leicester rallies against cuts
The main public sector unions in Leicester, Unison, PCS, NUT, GMB and Unite organised a 300-strong rally on Wednesday 19 January outside Leicester town hall
3 March 2010
Cut the working hours, not the jobs!
IN 1982, the official unemployment figure topped three million for the first time since the 1930s. Then came almost a decade of redundancies and industrial battles as work shifted away from manufacturing...
17 November 2009
Unemployment and the working week
As unemployment soars Britain will still have the longest working week in the European Union. New Labour has consistently fought for the right to opt out of EU laws limiting the working week to a maximum...
7 April 2009
National Union of Teachers Conference: Call national action on workload
What kind of a work/life balance is there for any teacher working a 52-hour week? More like all work/no life! Linda Taaffe writes.
24 February 2009
As unemployment soars Britain will still have the longest working week in the European Union. New Labour has consistently fought for the right to opt out of EU laws limiting the working week to a maximum...
10 December 2008
Share out the work
For a 35-hour week with no loss of pay.
Create more jobs
Nationalise job-shedding companies. For massive investment in public housing and infrastructure projects.
2 April 2008
Editorial: For a 35-hour week with no loss of pay
WITH 2,000 job losses projected out of a total workforce of 6,000 at Northern Rock, together with one third of all jobs in the financial sector going, the shadow of unemployment returns once more to haunt working-class areas...
19 May 2005
The curse of long working hours
THE HYPOCRISY of the government and the bosses reached new depths last week...
29 January 2005
Tube workers win 35-hour week through strike action
RMT rail union members working at London Underground stations have voted overwhelmingly to accept an offer from management to introduce a 35- hour week...
4 September 2004
Defending the 35-hour week: The Profit System's The Problem, Not The Workers
Defending the 35-hour week: Minister for Europe and former trade union official Denis MacShane has recently claimed: "An obsession with the 35-hour week is now part of Europe's economic problem, not the solution."...
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