Nurses, care home staff and police officers have had real pay cuts since 2010 as wages lag behind pricesNurses, care home staff and police officers working on Christmas Day will be thousands of pounds worse off than they were a decade ago as a result o…
Want to know what a just transition to a green economy looks like? Ask the workers | Anna Markova
People don’t need catchprases: they need resources and empowerment so they can secure good green jobsAnna Markova is the Trades Union Congress’s co-lead on climate and industrial policyIf you really want to know what a just transition looks like, don’t…
Should we work less?
A shorter working week could benefit society, the environment – even the economy. Is it time to reassess our relationship with our jobs? For the last year and a half, most people have fallen into one of three categories: the unemployed, whose jobs disa…
Why it’s high time to move on from ‘just-in-time’ supply chains | Kim Moody
This logistical model is the engine of breakneck capitalism. But its fragility is now being exposedA price shock on the global natural gas markets brings down several small energy providers, leaving customers without heating and facing rising fuel pric…
Analysis: six squeezes on the UK economy from bills to shopping to petrol
Britain is short of 100,000 lorry drivers, energy firms are sinking, food items are running scarce and employers are scrambling for staff as multiple crises eruptMany of the problems facing the economy relate to Britain’s shortage of 100,000 lorry driv…
Ready, steady … oh. Can a life coach shake me out of my pandemic-induced ennui?
It started in bed one morning when I realised I hadn’t had an original thought for months. I needed someone to make me wake upFor some reason it takes me two and a half hours to email my life coach. I write “email life coach guy” on my to-do list. I ha…
Asos offers staff flexible work and paid leave during menopause
Fertility treatment, pregnancy loss and other health and life challenges covered in retailer’s support policyStaff at the online fashion store Asos will be allowed to work flexibly, as well as take time off at short notice, while going through the meno…
Does the UK have a wage problem?
Business leaders have hit back at Boris Johnson over claims they allowed Britain to become a low-wage and low-skilled economyBritain’s businesses stand accused of allowing the UK to become a low-wage, low-skilled and low-productivity economy bedevilled…
Levelling up isn’t about north or south, or city or town. It’s about restoring local pride | Neil O’Brien
Parts of the country have suffered for decades, now we have an opportunity to unite the countryNeil O’Brien is MP for Harborough and parliamentary undersecretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and CommunitiesBoris Johnson put levelling up at the he…
Senior black union leader condemns ‘colour-blind’ levelling up
Patrick Roach of teachers’ union NASUWT says policy would not end discrimination against black workersA “colour-blind” approach to the levelling up agenda would have a damaging effect on black workers, the UK’s most senior black union leader has warned…