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Prime Minister must give young workers the right to guaranteed hours and ending the scourge of insecure work, TUC says
THE government’s sale of a 7.7 per cent stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland was condemned yesterday by the bank staff’s union Unite.
UK Government Investments confirmed the sell-off on Monday, reducing the public holding in the bank to 62.4 per cent.
Unite national officer Rob MacGregor said that the sale — at a loss of £2 billion in the value of shares bought by the British taxpayer in the bank’s 2008 bailout — is “a betrayal of public finances.”
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Burnham’s U-turn on tackling greedy landlords has let the country down
Resistance grows as Fifa seeks to hand private investors a slice of the international game, writes JAMES NALTON
Trade unions call for windfall tax hike to fund social energy tariff to public’s energy bills
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS