More and more councils are coming out to say that they oppose the bedroom tax.
A £500 a week benefit cap is set to come into effect in four pilot London boroughs next week. Labour’s Frank Field called it a “mega-sum”. But the increasing cost of living means that people need it.
Those who remember what Thatcher did to the miners—and to many other working class communities—will prefer her immortalised as the poet Shelley did another Tory politician, Lord Castlereagh, after the Peterloo massacre in 1819: “I met murder on the way— / he had a mask like Castlereagh”.
Members of the Unite union have just one week left to vote for their union’s general secretary. And rank and file candidate Jerry Hicks is calling on his supporters to campaign up until the last minute.
Some 180,000 civil service workers joined a half-day strike against the Tories on last Friday
A blizzard of cuts is set to rob billions from people on benefits this month.
Huge changes across the health service make a mockery of the Tory claim that the NHS is safe in their hands.
Thousands of civil service workers were set to walk out on Friday of this week as part of the PCS union’s rolling industrial action.
Paramedics down tools | New helpline launch in chaos | Heart doctors slam closure | Trust bosses attack wages
Just days before the Tories’ bedroom tax came into effect, more than 25,000 people protested in over 50 cities across Britain.
For many people the welfare cuts mean their council, landlord or the government interfering in the details of their lives in an unprecedented way.
