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Glasgow’s visitor levy is a start – but what next?
While the council can generate much-needed income with this new charge, making the city sustainable and affordable for its all-important workers needs a wider approach that’s not just focused on tourism, writes IAN MacCORQUODALE
Any positives from the government’s green paper proposals are vastly overshadowed by the scale of the cuts to vulnerable low-income households, argues JENNY RATHBONE MS
With young people, the disabled and the elderly in Labour’s sights as ‘easy targets’ for cuts, the labour movement must remember it’s in the vital interests of us all to defend the groups being picked off, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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The Employment Rights Bill is a vital opportunity to rebalance power between workers and employers. As it passes to the Lords, pressure must be brought to bear to strengthen this key legislation, argues ANDY McDONALD MP
The arrest of Palestinian activist and former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil is just the beginning as the Trump administration moves to silence students and union members who support Palestine, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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GLASGOW is struggling, public services have been repeatedly cut back, there are thousands left stuck on social housing lists and we have a public transport system that only makes sense to the profiteering shareholders of the private companies that have been allowed to run it.
But right now the council is consulting on introducing a visitor levy across the city that has the potential to generate much needed cash for our city’s struggling services. The only problem? They want to put the money back into tourism.
For most workers and tenants Glasgow is no longer an affordable place to live. Since 2010 private rent has increased 30 points above inflation while workers’ wages have stagnated. As a result thousands are considering having to move out of the neighbourhoods and communities they call home, often having to move away from family, friends and established caring and support networks.
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After sustained campaigning by Living Rent, Edinburgh council is to introduce a visitor levy, with some of the money raised going towards council housing in the capital – a welcome step in a city under great pressure from an ever-expanding tourist industry, says KATHARINA BANDMANN