@LBC@RichardBurgon#FireandRehire allows unscrupulous employers to exploit workers through contract terms that require more work but less pay
https://t.co/RzohJrGZiu
Just saw somebody try to argue that minimum wage isn't supposed to be a living wage. That their small business can't afford to pay a living wage.
If the only way your business can exist is the exploitation of labor (aka peoples actual lives), then your business should not exist.
Private schools were given £157m taxpayer-subsidised, state-backed loans to get them through the pandemic, while state schools are burning through their reserves, @jimfitznews reports. https://t.co/vDuFzgpoi2
@marcuschown@mrjamesob Despite all the challenges the NHS still ranks higher than most EU health systems, thanks to the dedication of the staff. Be careful not to play into the hands of the government, who want people to think it is failing and should thus be privatised.
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Our latest #DECONFBU research with @UCLan into firefighting and cancer brings to light the serious occupational hazards facing firefighters
What we've found is truly alarming.
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‘We didn’t get the tangible outcome that would allow for strikes to be called off, but it was progress to be in a room with the Secretary of State talking about pay’
Sara Gorton @UNISONOurNHS on this morning’s talks between health unions and @SteveBarclay
@William_iamiare Neoliberals have restructured the state and its primary role is to guarantee corporate profits - PFI, privatisation of social care and the NHS, outsourcing, allowing banks to pay measly interest on savings but 40% charge for overdrafts, suppressing bank frauds, etc.
By organising across a sector and building a combine of shop stewards from the dominant companies and workplaces, Unite reps can secure ground-breaking Minimum Standards Agreements on key industrial issues like pay rates, insecurity of work, automation & Covid H&S
“We can’t be a union and not be able to effectively support our stewards. I make no apologies for this sort of action against an employer that decimates communities by axing 4,000 jobs and just walking away. Whatever you get is coming” @UniteSharon Graham 💥💥
This year, Black Friday is #MakeAmazonPay day.
Amazon workers paid for Jeff Bezos to go space. On 26 November, they are demanding justice – and asking you to join them: https://t.co/ijapmmAnhX
•Iceland- 91.8% of workers in a Trade Union. The result- 86% of workers entitled to a 4 day week with no loss of pay.
•The UK- only 23.7% of workers in a Trade Union. The result- 900,000 workers on zero hour contracts & over 1ml paid less than the minimum wage.
Join a union.