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Cuts in arts education

23 October 2024

Arts education provision across Britain is suffering from continuing cuts including instrumental music, drama and visual arts. Workers in arts and education are trying to build campaigns to counter this decline.

Theatres: stoking division

22 October 2024

A play in Manchester was cancelled due to divisive ideological disputes. This reflects a climate of censorship and the invasion of dogmatic viewpoints, neither healthy.

Pay rises on the railways

22 October 2024

Rail workers in most train operating companies have voted to accept the national pay deal. This ends over two years of intermittent strikes and other industrial action.

Net zero is a trade union issue

21 October 2024

This year’s TUC showed rising tension between an ideological support of net zero and the real-world impacts on workers. A life-long trade unionist has contacted Workers with his observations.

Action over pay on the Tube

21 October 2024

Transport unions Aslef and RMT are planning strikes over pay for their members on London Underground. In separate disputes both will be taking action in early November.

The boiler tax is back

21 October 2024

The new government wants to revive a policy of its predecessor to increase heat pump take up by taxing gas boilers. Its enthusiasm for net zero makes it blind to the reason why the idea was dropped.

No to fire and rehire

21 October 2024

Food manufacturer Oscar Mayer wants to fire and rehire workers at its Wrexham factory to reduce wages. The workers began a 4-week strike in September, extended when the firm refused to negotiate.

Employment rights – still blocked by law

21 October 2024

The Employment Rights Bill, published on 10 October, does not repeal all the anti-union acts enforced by Thatcher and her successors, Tory and Labour. And the promises of change don’t stand up to scrutiny.

Rally against fuel payment cuts

11 October 2024

Pensioners held rallies in London and Belfast on Monday 7 October for the restoration of the winter fuel payment. As well as the direct financial effect those in fuel poverty will suffer worse health, increasing demand on the NHS

Suit You Sir: a reader writes

11 October 2024

A letter from a reader in Scotland reflects on gifts of clothing to Keir Starmer and others in the Labour leadership and the theme of clothing in Macbeth.

No mine here: threat to industry

11 October 2024

The assault on British industry in the name of the environment and net zero continues. The latest step is halting the development of a coal mine in Cumbria, aided by the courts and the new government.

Electricity imports at record high

11 October 2024

Electricity imports from continental Europe have hit a record high. Britain increasingly depends on undersea cables, with risks to both continuity of supply and prices.

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