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🚨Breaking: the UK's largest union has officially backed a @4Day_Week at its national conference.
@unisontheunion Gen Sec Christina McAnea, said:
"The pandemic proved that people could do their jobs from home and still be efficient. A 4-day working week is the next big step."
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Labour are right to argue we need to invest more.
But the UK won’t fix its investment problem until it fixes the rules that determine how businesses distribute their earnings.
In the late 90s, FTSE350 firms paid 34% of post-tax profits to shareholders. By 2019-23, it was 103%.
Shareholder primacy = extraction over investment.
Ambitious corporate governance reform is a key piece of the puzzle to deliver a pro-investment strategy.
"We're not investing enough in Britain."
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves says the Labour government would have the most "pro-growth treasury" this country has ever seen.
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If this was a restaurant it’d be shut-down and the owner heavily fined.
Why should privatised water be treated any differently?
Sixteen cases cryptosporidium, have been confirmed in Devon by the UK Health Security Agency.
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Are you in London tomorrow? We need you, join us tomorrow at 7 pm: Choose peace and reconciliation - don't give up humanity.
@Magen_Inon @mirawad @YachadUK
RALLY TOMORROW: Support an end to the war & release of all hostages
North London, 7pm. Exact location confirmed upon registration.
Hear from @Magen_Inon @mirawad and from a hostage family member protesting in Israel.
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And the ward results are in!
First up, Abbey.
Thanks Rosemary Ansell 🔶 (LD), Naomi Bennett 🟢 (Green), Simon Brignell ⭐ (Comm), & Ben Cartwright 🌹 (Lab) for pledging to make our streets safe for children!
No response from the Conservative candidate 🤔
Dear @CambridgeCow. What are the boxes hanging from the necks of Midsummer Common cows? GPS trackers??
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If you have £99 you can get an ambulance to A&E quickly. If you don’t, you wait and possibly die.
After 14 years of drastic NHS underfunding, we are hurtling uncontrollably toward two-tier healthcare.
It’s time to properly fund our NHS. #NHSPledge
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Some shocking stats in here about poverty pay in the charity sector. 67% of entry level and junior charity sector roles outside London pay less than the real #LivingWage! Charity leaders need to sort this out @CivilSocietyUK @ThirdSector
We’ve just published the CharityJob Salary Report 2024! Find out salaries by job type, experience level and charity size.
The good news? On average, salaries are going up.
Read the full report below. 👇
charityjob.co.uk/careeradvic…
#charitysalary #charitysector #charityjobs
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We’re working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK – like hydrogen. And, we’re keeping oil & gas flowing to help meet today’s energy needs. And, not or – that's our approach.
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It is vague and misleading to write "bring more lower carbon energy to the UK - like hydrogen" as if it is a sustainable solution to make H2 from natural gas which releases also a lot of CO2. "it takes more energy to [....] than it provides when converted into useful energy " theguardian.com/environment/20…
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Debt advice charity @RootedFinance has fired 80% of their frontline staff after they tried to unionise.
CEO @Muna_Yassin_ sacked 4 union members the day they announced strike action, leaving vulnerable clients without caseworker support.
bylinetimes.com/2024/03/14/c…
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Hey @theRSAorg!
Not a great look to have a police van stationed outside the flagship Fellows Festival due to a peaceful protest is it?
At what point does Andy Haldane admit his leadership of the RSA has been a disaster?
#BoycottRSA
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We have cancelled our event at the RSA on 15/02 in support of staff who are in a pay dispute with management. It's our hope that this boycott will help the @RsaUnion to ensure that the RSA, with its historically progressive aims, offers fair pay and conditions for all staff.
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ALT "Yes the planet got destroyed but for a beautiful moment in time we stuck to our self imposed fiscal rules."
Starmer says he will not break Labour’s fiscal rules to meet green targets theguardian.com/politics/202…
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How did the UK's Science Museum secure sponsorship from #Adani, the world's biggest private producer of coal?🤔
And for a new gallery on #climate science!
🎥Watch as the @sciencemuseum director shows how to #greenwash a coal company👇
👉Then take action actionnetwork.org/letters/te…
Andy Haldane is speaking at today's @resfoundation #EndingStagnation conference.
He's part of the problem when it comes to inequality, the highest earner at RSA where he's CEO is paid SEVEN times more than the lowest. Time for him to work w/ @RsaUnion & bring a fair pay deal in
I’m at #EndingStagnation & two charts stand out to me from the whistle stop run through the analysis - we have to focus on growth AND inequality…