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One-sided flexibility is one of many issues that needs to be tackled with a new deal for workers
by PADDY LILLIS, Usdaw general secretary
Usdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis
The recent calls to strip Michelle Mone of her peerage after she was caught scamming the public for £122 million should reinvigorate the longstanding progressive demand to completely abolish the entire undemocratic, corrupt relic, writes ELLIOT TONG
As gold hits $4,000 per ounce, soaring from only $250 back in 2001, the US national debt has reached $37 trillion — it’s all about to come crashing down, warns JOHN ELLISON, which our leaders would have known had they only studied Marx’s magnum opus Capital
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF
THE cost-of-living crisis continues to have a devastating impact on too many working families. Rising prices of everyday essentials mean that many are finding it impossible to survive. Usdaw’s survey of thousands of low-paid mainly key workers demonstrates the dire situation.
Nearly a third are struggling to pay gas and electricity bills every single month; over 60 per cent have relied on unsecured borrowing in the past year to pay bills, and around seven in 10 report that financial worries are impacting their mental health. While everyone is being impacted by the crisis, it is clearly having the greatest toll on those who can least afford it.
As a movement we need to be clear that the roots of this crisis are deeper than the Tories’ mismanagement of our economy or the global factors they like to blame. At the heart of the cost-of-living crisis is our weak employment rights framework, which robs workers of financial security or certainty and leaves them constantly vulnerable to economic headwinds and changes of circumstance.
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