The struggle for paid holidays
Until the latter part of the 19th century, paid holidays hardly existed for workers in Britain. So how and when were they won? (A clue: not by the EU)
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Keep it clean
As negotiations on Brexit begin, a new pamphlet cuts through the hard/soft waffle that dominates the media…
No, we're not living longer
The phrase “we are all living longer” has been a well rehearsed slogan to justify an endless attack on state and occupational pension entitlement.
Push the blockers aside
On 29 March the government gave formal notice that Britain will depart from the EU once and for all time. Now Article 50 has been invoked and the clock is ticking.
The hidden price of online shopping
While the online shopping giants get spectacularly rich, the workers who deliver to your home face zero hours contracts and long hours for minimal pay. Workers has been investigating the hidden world of the couriers…
Rail: a test case for independence
Building the new Britain means building new railways, making the equipment here in Britain, and running the rail network in the way we decide, for the benefit of the people.
Manchester: flats, flats, flats
Manchester is now top of the table for growth in house prices, having increased by 8.8 per cent in the year ending February.
Housing isn't working
Across large parts of Britain houses and flats are not even being built to be homes – just investments…
For an undivided Britain
Internal devolution divides the people of Britain. Like membership of the European Union it will poison our future unless we act. The current undemocratic engineering going on in Manchester shows why it needs to be fought…
Gagged and bound: the fine print of a casual contract
A worker under EU and UK employment law has limited if very few employment rights compared with an employee who has contractual and statutory rights.