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Tate gallery workers were set to protest on Wednesday of this week after more than a month on all-out strike.

Friday of last week marked the final day of engine production at Ford’s Bridgend plant in South Wales.

Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak announced another bailout package for bosses on Thursday as the coronavirus crisis deepens.

People are being thrown out of work at the sharpest rate since the recession in 2009

Unemployment will be the worst “in at least a generation” by the autumn as Tories and bosses try to make workers pay for the coronavirus crisis. 

On 11 August, I along with thousands of other workers at Debenhams, was made redundant. The primary emotion that all of us are feeling is shock, but we are also angry. 

Poorer families have been abandoned by the government to deep hardship during the coronavirus crisis. A new report underlines just how tough it has been for people on benefits and low pay.

The jobs massacre continues across Britain, as does an almost total lack of response from union leaders.

UCU union members held protests and an online rally on Thursday of last week over job cuts.

Britain is heading for unemployment levels “not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s”, a think tank has warned. It comes after the economy officially entered a recession.

Job losses aren’t just about coronavirus. Sarah Bates says we need to fight for jobs and against a system that destroys them

Workers facing poverty, unemployment and insecurity told Sadie Robinson why they feel they have been completely abandoned by their bosses and the government