by Agency Reporter | Jan 11, 2023 | Briefing
THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS (TUC) has called on MPs of all parties to reject the government’s “latest attack on the right to strike” as the minimum service levels bill came to parliament for its first reading on Tuesday. The bill – dubbed the “sack key workers bill” –...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 11, 2023 | Briefing
THE UK GOVERNMENT could stop terminally ill people of working age being driven into poverty by increasing its annual spend on the State Pension by just 0.1 per cent. New research from Loughborough University, funded by the end of life charity Marie Curie, shows that...
by Staff Writer | Jan 10, 2023 | Briefing
THE CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT (CND) and Drone Wars UK have declared their opposition to the UK’s attempted space launch which took place at Newquay Airport yesterday (9 January). following their protests last October, when dozens of local peace and...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 10, 2023 | Briefing
TYPICAL HOUSEHOLD DISPOSABLE INCOMES for working-age families are on track to fall by three per cent this financial year, and by four per cent next year, with the two-year cost-of-living squeeze set to leave families £2,100 worse off. Only the very richest households...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 10, 2023 | Briefing
ALMOST 200 ECONOMISTS AND DEVELOPMENT EXPERTS have called for debt cancellation for Sri Lanka to help it out of its current economic crisis. In a statement released on 8 January, the signatories – including Jayati Ghosh, Thomas Piketty, Ravi Kanbur, Yannis Varoufakis...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 9, 2023 | Briefing
REDUCED WORKING HOURS and more flexible working time arrangements, such as those used during the Covid-19 crisis, can benefit economies, enterprises and workers, and lay the ground for a better and more healthy work-life balance, according to a new report from the...
