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2 May 2012
Chancellor George Gideon Osborne assured us recently that he's not quite wealthy enough to be eligible for the 50p top rate of tax which he just scrapped, so wouldn't personally benefit.
20 February 2012
Mass anger forces more companies to abandon workfare schemes
After protests hit London, Manchester and Leeds at the weekend, alongside an onslaught upon Tesco's presence in social media the company and others are feeling the squeeze
The Jarrow March for Jobs 2011 ends with a demonstration in London on 5 November , photo Sujeeth
23 November 2011
Jarrow marchers put forward an alternative
Minimum wage not to blame: On the day that the latest unemployment figures were announced I was asked to debate with Mark Littlewood of the Insititute of Economic Affairs (IEA) on the Tony Livesy show on BBC Radio 5Live, writes Paul Callanan, Youth Fight for Jobs national organiser.
12 October 2011
The most recent increase in the minimum wage was pitiful in the face of the rocketing cost of living...
Youth Fight for Jobs Jarrow March 2011 launch demonstration in Jarrow, photo Paul Mattsson
5 October 2011
Danger: young people's futures at risk
As a gesture to battling rising youth unemployment, the previous Labour government launched the Future Jobs Fund (FJF) in 2009...
11 May 2011
A Labour Research Department publication has stated that the TUC welcomed the government's confirmation that the National Minimum Wage (NMW) for workers aged 21 and over will go up by 2.5%, writes Mark Evans.
15 December 2010
Garment workers demand a living wage in Bangladesh
ONCE AGAIN thousands of textile workers in Bangladesh were forced to take to the streets last week to demand that all employers pay the new monthly minimum wage which was meant to be implemented by 1 December following protests last July...
6 October 2010
WE HEARD a lot at the New Labour conference in Manchester about the party's 'proud record' for working people...
Unite members on strike on the picket line at Tyneside safety Glass, photo Elaine Brunskill
22 September 2010
Tyneside Safety Glass: Stop the decline to the minimum wage!
Shop steward Mark Robertson, spoke to Elaine Brunskill about the strike on 20 September at Tyneside Safety Glass, the biggest industrial glass manufacturer in the north of England, with around 150 workers...
4 August 2010
Garment workers demand a living wage
Thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh took to the streets of Dhaka to dismiss the recently announced increase in the minimum wage as completely inadequate...
7 July 2010
As has been explained in previous issues of The Socialist, this economic crisis was not caused by working class people and they should not pay for it...
7 October 2009
TO MARK ten years of the national minimum wage, the New Labour government has given it the lowest increase on record, taking the full adult rate to a miserly £5.80 an hour...
Youth Fight For Jobs, photo by Paul Mattsson
1 April 2009
The G20 leaders have no solution to the crisis...
*The right to a decent job for all.
*We won't pay for the bosses' crisis!
*No to job losses. Open the account books to let workers see where the profits have gone...
5 March 2005
Let's have a decent minimum wage!
"FOR TOO long, poverty pay capped the aspirations and prosperity of far too many hard- working families."...
9 October 2004
Health service: LOW PAY in the NHS is widespread - many ancillary workers get around £4.85 an hour, little more than the minimum wage. Thousands have to rely on extra payments for working unsocial hours just to scrape together a living...
2 October 2004
Bosses Think Minimum Wage Too High
"TONY BLAIR is hypocritical and can't be trusted. He has repeatedly refused to repeal Tory anti-trade union laws which prevent workers from protecting themselves...
11 September 2004
Join the action: FRIDAY 17 September will be a day of action against low pay. Every week International Socialist Resistance (ISR) and Socialist Party members are meeting workers of all ages - but particularly young workers - who are fed up with low pay...
10 July 2004
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5 June 2004
IN THE past 20 months, nine apprentices, all aged under 23, have died on vocational courses backed by the government...
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