by Agency Reporter | Jul 12, 2023 | Briefing
AROUND seven in 10 (69 per cent) disabled employees earn less than £15 an hour, according to new analysis of official statistics published by the Trades Union Congress (TUC). The analysis, published as the TUC’s disabled workers conference started in Bournemouth on 11...
by Staff Writer | Jul 12, 2023 | Briefing
MEMBERS of Christian Climate Action, including two members of the clergy, have called on Wimbledon tennis tournament to drop Barclays as a sponsor. Barclays is the biggest funder of fossil fuels in Europe. Christian Climate Action (CCA) has been working alongside...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 11, 2023 | Briefing
MIGRANT STAFF coming to the UK to take up jobs in social care are being forced to pay back thousands of pounds in fees, are housed in sub-standard accommodation, and are even forced to share beds with colleagues, says UNISON, the public service trade union. To...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 11, 2023 | Briefing
SEVENTY CIVIL SOCIETY organisations and individuals from around the world are calling on the World Bank to commission an external review of its effectiveness, and put the public at the core of its efforts to support the global south. As part of the consultation on...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 10, 2023 | Briefing
A GAIN of over $1 trillion in windfall profits was made by 722 of rhe world’s biggest corporations each year for the past two years, amid soaring prices and interest rates Analysis by Oxfam and ActionAid of Forbes’ Global 2000 ranking shows companies made $1.08...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 10, 2023 | Briefing
THREE ORGANISATIONS are taking the UK Government to court for the second time in under two years over its ‘feeble and inadequate’ strategy for tackling climate change. Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth and Good Law Project say the government’s revised net...
