Social Issues




North East Sharkstoppers launch a campaign with teeth to combat legal loan sharks

This Sunday (24th February) will see the regional Sharkstoppers campaign begin in earnest with a high profile event at Grey's Monument in Newcastle. Concerned local people from a range of organisations including the TUC, trade unions, the Citizens Ad...

21 February 2013
Poundland judgement blows a ‘big hole' in government's welfare to work policies

Commenting on today's (Tuesday) Poundland judgement by the Court of Appeal, which ruled that it was unlawful for someone to be made to work for free under the government's welfare to work schemes, TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said:

12 February 2013
Northern TUC Asbestos Group has won over £310,000 for asbestos victims and their families

Since September 2012, Advice Workers from the Northern TUC Asbestos Support and Campaign Group have secured nearly one third of a million pounds (£311,643.00) in one-off compensation payments for asbestos victims in the northern region. In addition t...

5 February 2013
Benefits up-rating cap is unfair and a big political risk for the government, says TUC

Ahead of the Commons vote today (Tuesday) on capping the up-rating of welfare benefits, TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said:

8 January 2013
Support for benefit cuts dependent on ignorance, TUC-commissioned poll finds

Ministers cannot assume that voters will continue to back them in their plans to cap welfare benefit rises, according to a new poll commissioned by the TUC from YouGov and published today (Friday).

4 January 2013
Extortion must be stopped

A rapidly escalating consequence of the dire economic and impoverished situation many people in the north east find themselves in is the abhorrent exploitation of finance providers such as payday loans, legal loan sharks and credit organisations prov...

3 December 2012



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