Mick Lynch from the @RMTunion points out that during Covid, in the worst year of revenue on the railway, the private rail companies extracted £500 million in profit. Thats the scandal, not working people fighting against real term pay cuts during a cost of living crisis.
BREAKING: Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says that the company will never engage with @SBWorkersUnited.
For months, Starbucks has claimed it’s engaging in “good faith” bargaining with the union, as required by law.
Now Schultz is revealing that Starbucks has been lying.
I know "Kafkaesque" is thrown around a lot but this is truly it - a criminal conviction for protest at a hearing nobody could attend except the judge, with no involvement from the defendants, by a law the police were found by the High Court to have fundamentally misunderstood
Corporation tax is a tax on profits. If Labour can’t support an increase next week, as said here, there is no point in them.
Starmer’s leadership isn’t just underwhelming, I think it’s now damaging the chances of progressive change.
The Labour leadership is now positioning itself to the right of the Tories on economic policy and refusing to rule out opposing Rishi Sunak hiking taxes on big businesses - and specifically those who have profiteered from the pandemic.
Farcical. Grotesque. Indefensible.
Judgment has been handed down this morning by video link in the case of Uber BV and others (Appellants) v Aslam and others (Respondents) – UKSC 2019/0029 https://t.co/zyxdrYGKPR