Media descriptions of “health heroes” often stops at doctors and nurses. At the front of the front line, though, are the ambulance services.
Workers in the creative industries across Britain have sparked their trade unions into urgent action to save jobs for the future, act on behalf of freelancers threatened with destitution and safeguard the pay and conditions of full-time employees who are “furloughed”.
16 April 2020
With massive spikes in workers looking for farming jobs, some farmers are still chartering flights to bring in workers from eastern Europe.
16 April 2020
Workers in the creative industries across Britain have sparked their trade unions into urgent action to save jobs for the future.
16 April 2020
Ingenious online schemes are keeping skills alive, encouraging others to join in, and raising morale in difficult times.
16 April 2020
The government must not surrender to the siren song that Covid-19 has made Brexit impossible. On the contrary, the epidemic has made leaving the EU even more urgent.
14 April 2020
London’s ambulance service has been under heavy strain. But it has not buckled. Key to its resilience has been the acceptance of responsibility by the main trade union, Unison.
5 April 2020
Transport union RMT has called on the government to ensure that its support for the regional bus industry during the coronavirus epidemic will be used to protect workers and maintain services.
4 April 2020
The 1870 Education Act was a great step towards achieving universal education, a powerful force for workers’ emancipation.
4 April 2020
Britain’s universities are among those making workers redundant, as coronavirus exposes the extent to which higher education has mortgaged its future to the international markets.
3 April 2020
The people of Britain have had to face the Covid-19 epidemic with an emaciated NHS and an atrophied industrial infrastructure. So much for capitalism and the free market.
2 April 2020
So collectivism is dead? In times of crises, it seems people know better than their leaders.
