With families under immense financial pressure, it is more important than ever to provide free school meals for every child. For many children, free school meals are their main source of hot and nutritious food.
Kwasi Kwarteng, the latest Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, followed the pattern set by George Osborne: tax cuts for the rich and big business, pay cuts for everyone else.
The theme of the 2022 UN International Day of Peace is End Racism. Build Peace. The situation in Palestine shows clearly how racism and conflict are fundamentally interrelated.
Last week our HeartUnions international event welcomed some fantastic speakers. Here are the highlights on how unions are winning around the world – and the power of collective action to deliver change.
The Chancellor's Kickstart programme could help prevent avoid mass youth unemployment. But we need to make sure it delivers real jobs with training opportunities.
The workers who’ve kept the country running through the coronavirus crisis are too often underpaid, insecure and ignored. Let’s use this May Day to change that.
A government desperate to brand itself as on the side of working people has delivered a Queen’s Speech that offers a fig-leaf of reform coupled with an attack on the best organisations to protect workers’ rights – trade unions
Trade unionists are already on the frontline coping with the impact of climate change, but we must be involved at every step to bring about change on the scale needed to tackle this crisis.
Can we afford a four-day week? Microsoft certainly think so. This week, the tech giant announced that a four-day week trial in their Japanese office had boosted productivity by 40 per cent.
Trade unions won the weekend, the right to paid holidays, and rights for those who work part time. Today’s Labour announcement shows that in the twenty-first century we can win a shorter working week too.
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.
Theresa May promised a government ‘embarked on an ambitious programme of economic and social reform’. She has a chance to bring that pledge to life, when the Government responds to the Taylor review of ‘modern working practices’.
From the Bank of England to the IFS, more and more people have noticed that Britain is in the middle of a disastrous living standards crisis, and that Britain needs a pay rise. In next week’s Budget we’ll find out whether the Chancellor has noticed too.