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31 Dec 2012

No (tax) credit for Iain Duncan Smith

It's New Year's Eve, newsrooms are quiet and casual comments by ministers are enough to make top headlines. Today, Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has made the news with some vaguely worded attacks on the system of tax credits.
16 Nov 2012

Are royals really poorer than minimum wage workers’ families?

In seeking once again to blame the poor for poverty, UK work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has implied that several children of members of the royal family may be poorer than many living on the breadline with parents earning the minimum wage.
1 Oct 2012

New minimum wage rate means lowest paid will suffer says TUC

A new minimum wage rate of £6.12 an hour for workers over the age of 21 comes into force today (1 October.)
10 Oct 2010

Bishops told to pay a Living Wage

Church Action on Poverty has written to all Anglican and Roman Catholic Bishops to press them to sign up their Diocese to pay a Living Wage.
28 Sep 2010

Scottish Greens welcome move towards 'living wage'

The Scottish Green Party has welcomed Labour's move towards a 'living wage' for public sector workers, having campaigned on the issue for some time.
14 Jan 2009

US faith leaders say lift economy by raising minimum wage

The leaders of 15 denominations and national faith organizations in the US are among the inaugural signers of an open letter calling for a $10 federal minimum wage by 2010.
18 Mar 2007

US churches rap Congress for linking mimimum wage to war

The United States congress has linked federal minimum wage legislation to the bill for the Iraq war - and a number of faith and labour leaders are upset about it, including the head of the ecumenical council.
5 Feb 2007

Church groups join living wage campaign for Olympics site workers

Campaigners who are part of a London-wide citizens organisation, which brings together a wide range of community and faith groups, held a demonstration at the end of last week, calling for fair pay for workers involved in preparing for the 2012 London Olympics.
3 Feb 2007

US faith and community coalition welcomes minimum wage victory

The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign, a national US coalition of 91 religious, labour and community organizations, has thanked the Senate for voting to raise the minimum wage for the first time in many years.
12 Jan 2007

US church tells fast food giant to super-size workers' pay rise

The Rev Clifton Kirkpatrick, who moderates the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), is urging fast-food giant Burger King to work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to address wages and working conditions in the tomato fields.

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