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31 July 2019
Huge workload, low pay and unpaid hours - a day in the life of a teaching assistant
The role has changed unrecognisably in the last few years, but the wages do not reflect the level of commitment and professionalism the position now demands or the extra pressures it brings
5 June 2019
Laughable research denies low-pay scandal
That's how many young adults will have felt when, sat in their bedsits, back living in childhood bedrooms, or sitting in their single rented room in a shared house, they read that actually they are benefiting from better pay according to the Resolution Foundation.
1 May 2019
As delegates arrive in Blackpool for the annual conference of Usdaw, the retail and distribution union, many shop workers are facing job losses and worse pay and conditions as the retail crisis deepens.
17 April 2019
£100 billion for bosses - cuts for us.
MPs get extension after extension on their Brexit crisis. But there are no extensions for workers and young people on our suffocating rent and bills.
17 April 2019
20 years of the minimum wage: Fight for a real living wage for every worker
The minimum wage was one of the very few pro-worker steps taken by a right-wing Labour government
3 April 2019
Chesterfield hospital privatisation plans
Chesterfield Royal Hospital is going ahead with plans to introduce a wholly owned subsidiary company - Derbyshire Support and Facilitates Services.
13 March 2019
Tories out. Scrap Universal Credit. Fight for living wages and welfare!
Universal Credit is hardly out of the news. The suffering and anxiety it has caused is immeasurable - so much so that even some Tory MPs have been forced to highlight problems with its implementation.
20 February 2019
Annoyed?! I'm annoyed to be on poverty wages
There was another lively picket outside the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in London on 13 February. The staff, PCS members, are outsourced on contracts that pay poverty wages. They want to be brought back in-house and paid a living wage.
30 January 2019
Changes threaten thousands of jobs
Tesco has revealed plans to cut thousands of jobs as part of a new restructuring initiative.
9 January 2019
'Fat Cat Friday' shows where all the money's gone
I hadn't even received my first paycheque of the new year when the average chief executive of a FTSE 100 company had already 'earned' more than my entire annual salary - in less than three days!
9 January 2019
Grayling's attacks on rail workers wages 'un-fare'
The government continues to claim that Britain's economy is doing great and that everyone's wages are sky high.
21 November 2018
Housing arrears double, suicide risk soars - scrap Universal Credit!
General election now to reverse welfare attacks: Universal Credit claimants are being pushed into serious mental health problems, with some even considering suicide, according to public health researchers in the North East.
31 October 2018
Housing in Britain is in crisis. Bailiffs were called to a house in Hove on 26 October after the tenant - struggling to get by on Universal Credit - fell into rent arrears.
26 September 2018
Hospitality workers coordinate historic strike
Workers in McDonald's, TGI Fridays and Wetherspoon are fighting low pay.
22 August 2018
London cleaners' strike: 'Pay us a living wage!'
In early August, cleaners at Kensington and Chelsea council and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) took three days strike against poverty pay
4 July 2018
It's onw world for the super-rich and another for the rest of us. Profits for the bosses,slanders for firefighters; workers need 27% raise, bosses double wealth
20 June 2018
DWP surrenders to union pressure - now vote Yes to smash pay cap for everyone
On 14 June senior managers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) caved in to the PCS civil servants' union's demands that they pay the contractual 'employee deal' pay rise on time in July.
6 June 2018
'Made in Dagenham' Ford machinists pay strike 50 years on
This year, 7 June marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the strike by women sewing machinists at Ford Dagenham in east London.
23 May 2018
Leicester socialists fight poverty-paying sweatshops
The full effects of Tory policies, both economic and social, are being felt in Leicester, as sweatshop conditions and shocking illegal levels of pay persist in 2018.
23 May 2018
First ever strike at TGI Fridays
Workers at TGI Fridays restaurants in Milton Keynes and Covent Garden, London, were on strike for the first time ever on 18 May
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