REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP writes that it is time not just to adopt policies that will revitalise the lives of workers, but speak honestly and openly about whose side we are on and who the Labour Party is for: the millions, not the millionaires
‘Deliver us some respect on the job’
Living Ambitions staff are taking action over underpayment and the company’s failure to provide them with pay slips, writes CONRAD LANDIN
All the areas that cause working people to feel insecure have to be addressed, through a return to unashamedly pro-worker politics, if the horror of a Farage government is to be avoided, writes IAN LAVERY MP
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
JIM JUMP looks forward to the International Brigade Memorial Trust AGM taking place in Belfast later this week where the spirit of solidarity will be rekindled
If we can tackle the big issues, like delivering decent public services and affordable state-built and owned housing by making the richest pay a fair amount of tax, Labour can win back the trust and support of the electorate, argues ANDY McDONALD MP
Huge protests against corruption and preventable deaths during flooding have rocked the government — the masses are not likely to be able to take direct control in their own interests yet, writes KENNY COYLE, but it’s a promising show of people power
“WE listen. We respect. We deliver.” That’s the message on the website of Lifeways, which describes itself as “one of the UK’s leading providers of support services for people with diverse and often complex needs in community settings.”
But at Living Ambitions, a Glasgow-based subsidiary of Lifeways, workers feel anything but respected and listened to — and they’re waiting for the delivery of their wages.
This week, at a demonstration organised by their union GMB, workers demanded bosses come down from their ivory tower — the striking former Templeton carpet factory by Glasgow Green — and accept a collective grievance from over 40 workers.
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