O’Grady: Workers facing “longest and harshest” wage slump in modern history
Frances O’Grady has warned that workers are suffering the “longest and harshest squeeze” on wages in modern history…
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Energy bills to rise 14 times faster than wages in 2022, TUC analysis reveals
New analysis from the TUC has revealed that energy bills are set to rise at least 14 times…
Key workers to earn less on Christmas Day 2021 than a decade ago, TUC reveals
New analysis from the TUC has revealed that thousands of key workers, including those working to combat the…
Who is Olaf Scholz – and can Labour look to the SPD candidate as an ally?
Germany’s socialist party, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), last week chose its candidate to replace Angela Merkel as…
The revolutionary potential of a universal basic income cannot be over-estimated
The Labour Party should adopt a universal basic income as can act as a catalyst for a radical…
John McDonnell: My message for the Davos elite – austerity was a con trick
This is the full statement published by shadow chancellor John McDonnell before attending the World Economic Forum in Davos…
Christina McAnea: Time to put principles over profit in delivery of public services
Today the Smith Institute launches Out of Contract – Time to move on from the love in with…
Joe Anderson: Housing is too important to leave to the iniquities of the free market
It’s hardly surprising that for the first time since the slum clearances in the 1950s and 1960s, there…
Watson’s words on future of work ring true – and why we need a “right to learn”
Last week, Tom Watson rightly challenged the idea of a dystopian future created by new technologies. Despite huge advances…
Rise of the robots will not mean wave of job losses, says Tom Watson
Robots can “set us free”, Tom Watson said today as he joined forces with influential left-leaning economists to…
