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UK TUC calls for “economy that rewards work not just wealth” [TUC] 17-05-2024
UK Almost nine out of 10 nurses in England work when ill, survey finds [The Guardian] 16-05-2024
UK Corporate profiteering: Unite study of 17,000 companies shows margins jumped 30% since the pandemic [Unite] 16-05-2024
UK Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival returns to Dorset in 2024 [TUC] 16-05-2024
UK TUC – record foodbank use shows “true face of Tory Britain” [TUC] 15-05-2024
UK Six-day teacher strike after Ofsted ‘lies’ lead to privatisation threat [Morning Star] 15-05-2024
UK Almost half a million women gagged after workplace discrimination, bullying or harassment [Independent] 14-05-2024
UK Over 430k mothers have been legally gagged in the UK following workplace discrimination, harassment or bullying [Pregnant Then Screwed & Can't Buy My Silence] 14-05-2024
UK P&O boss’ misleading wages claim an attempt to spin away company’s appalling seafarer exploitation [ITF] 14-05-2024
UK Tesco CEO’s near £10m pay a ‘slap in the face’ for struggling workers, union says [The Guardian] 14-05-2024
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This month in labour history
4-05-1926 For the first and so far only time in British history, the TUC calls millions of workers out in a general strike, in support of coal miners. [more]
5-05-1882 Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette and revolutionary socialist, is born. [more]
10-05-1920 Dockers refused to load arms shipments to be used by White armies in Russia. [more]
14-05-1771 Socialist philanthropist Robert Owen is born [more]
30-05-1984 Miners leader Arthur Scargill, along with 81 other pickets, is arrested at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire. [more]