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The economy of the many is better than the economy of the few
200 years ago today (16 August), a public meeting on St. Peter’s Field in Manchester was savagely broken up by government forces. Shelly’s famous poem ‘The Mask of Anarchy’ commemorated those who lost their lives at ‘Peterloo’ and urged the ‘many’ to rise up against the ‘few’.
The Franchise system still isn’t working, regardless of who runs the west coast
Yesterday the government announced that Virgin Trains would not run the West Coast mainline for the first time since 1997. A consortium of FirstGroup and Trenitalia (the Italian state rail operator, we have state run rail in the UK, it’s just not our state that runs it) will take over the Franchise in December.
Learning to put hope and power into the hands of young workers
Last Saturday, 20 young workers from across the Yorkshire and Humberside region came together in Sheffield for the first time to learn how to organise. Here’s what we learned.
Almost half the self-employed are on poverty pay
Almost half of self-employed adults aged over 25 are earning less than the minimum wage, according to new analysis by the TUC, that punctures the myth of a growing army of wealthy entrepreneurs.
Real pay cut for millions of people in working class jobs
While working class jobs may have changed with the shift to a service economy, the experience of poor pay, long hours, and class discrimination that the union movement has fought against remains all too common in today’s UK.
MINUS 0.2 PER CENT: The worst time to cut ourselves adrift
GDP fell by 0.2 per cent in 2019 Q2, confounding expectations of flat growth. The worst quarter since 2012 Q4 echoes economic fragilities across the globe. But in the UK it’s a particularly worrying backdrop to the potentially catastrophic decision to leave the European Union without a deal.
Young people are a catalyst for change - Why young people can provide the change we all need
As a young person, with a job, growing up in a primarily working-class city with most young people around me in employment, I can safely say that young people do have drive to be active within a union movement.
A four-day week with decent pay for all? It’s the future
Trade unions fought for an eight-hour day in the 19th century and a two-day weekend in the 20th. In the 21st, it’s time to take the next step and win a four-day week with fair pay for all.
The millions trapped in insecure work need a new deal from this Prime Minister
Instead of preparing for a catastrophic no-deal Brexit, Boris Johnson should put tackling the scourge of insecure work at the top of his to-do list.
Organising for the future - how young trade unionists are leading the way
Last month, the first ever TUC Summer Patrol sent young trade unionists into workplaces across Sheffield, Doncaster and Barnsley. Here's what we learned.
