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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaking at the Regional Investment Summit at Edgbaston Stadium, in Birmingham. Picture date: Tuesday October 21, 2025
Employment / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025

Labour could break pledge to equalise minium wage, warn campaigners 

UCU members at Edinburgh University gather for a rally in George Square, Edinburgh, at the start of a planned five-day walk-out in a dispute over plans to cut £140 million from the university budget, September 8, 2025
Workers' Rights / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025
A general view of the entrance to a Sainsbury's supermarket, April 30, 2018
Workers' Rights / 20 October 2025
20 October 2025
Protesters form a blockade outside weapons manufacturer BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow, in protest over the Israel-Gaza conflict and calling for an immediate ceasefire to halt the killing of civilians in Palestine. Picture date: Wednesday May 1, 2024
Workers' Rights / 18 October 2025
18 October 2025

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

Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC speaking at the TUC congress at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Monday September 11, 2023
Wealth Tax / 16 October 2025
16 October 2025
Sharon Graham the general secretary of Unite, delivers a speech during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Monday September 29, 2025
Workers' Rights / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025

Call comes as unemployment rate hits highest level since early 2021, the height of the pandemic

Workers' Rights / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025
Protesters take part in a nationwide 24-hour strike in Athens, Greece, October 14, 2025, as unions demand higher wages and the withdrawal of a bill changing work hours
Southern Europe / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025
Plastic models of a man and woman stand on a pile of coins
Workers' Rights / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025
battle of bexley square
Working Class History / 11 October 2025
11 October 2025

MAT COWARD looks back to a 1931 protest against mass unemployment featuring a young Ewan MacColl