Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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‘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
Our groundbreaking report reveals how private rail companies are bleeding millions from public coffers through exploitative leasing practices — but we have the solutions, writes Aslef Scottish organiser KEVIN LINDSAY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT
This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH
A maverick’s self-inflicted snake bites could unlock breakthrough treatments – but they also reveal deeper tensions between noble scientific curiosity and cold corporate callousness, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The FBU is demanding 52 weeks of full pay for women firefighters, highlighting the unique health risks they face — and the continuing need to recruit and retain more women if policies like this are still not in place, writes SEONA HART
“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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