๐จBreaking: the UK's largest union has officially backed a @4Day_Week at its national conference.
@unisontheunion Gen Sec Christina McAnea, said:
"The pandemic proved that people could do their jobs from home and still be efficient. A 4-day working week is the next big step."
@PhilR_R@BoardofDeputies@IsraelinUK@TzipiHotovely I am disappointed to see these warm words to someone so racist. I hope you were extremely robust in your conversation. As @annaroiser says, whatever your politics, all communal leaders now need to be speaking up against starvation as a weapon of war https://t.co/2xyMpRoe1c
Labour are right to argue we need to invest more.
But the UK wonโt fix its investment problem until it fixes the rules that determine how businesses distribute their earnings.
In the late 90s, FTSE350 firms paid 34% of post-tax profits to shareholders. By 2019-23, it was 103%.
Shareholder primacy = extraction over investment.
Ambitious corporate governance reform is a key piece of the puzzle to deliver a pro-investment strategy.
*THREAD* In 1897, a crowd of between 50,000 and 100,000 people STORMED One Tree Hill in #Lewisham, facing off against mounted police. They were furious that a golf club had fenced it off and stopped their #RightToRoam 1/5
If this was a restaurant itโd be shut-down and the owner heavily fined.
Why should privatised water be treated any differently?
Sixteen cases cryptosporidium, have been confirmed in Devon by the UK Health Security Agency.