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precarious work

May 12, 2020

Union sues UK government over failure to protect millions of precarious workers

The union says government arrangements risk driving millions of workers into deeper poverty and pose a major threat to public health.
March 23, 2020

RSA statement on Coronavirus and a Universal Basic Income

Coronavirus is demonstrating why having such a complex, conditional and punitive system of cash support is fundamentally flawed, says the RSA.
January 2, 2017

'New bargain' needed for working people says TUC General Secretary

In her New Year message, the TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady has called for a “new bargain” for working people that gives them better protection at work and a fairer share of Britain’s success.
May 17, 2016

Latest figures show one third of UK population experience poverty

Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures released on 16 May 2016 show 3.9 million people in the UK are in persistent poverty. The figures show one in three people have experienced poverty in recent years, underlinng the precarious nature of work in Britain.

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Jan 14 2021

Call to halt UK police training programmes for repressive states

The College of Policing has provided training for at least 12 countries that are listed as 'human rights priority countries' by the Foreign and...

Jan 13 2021

Royal College of Paediatrics calls for urgent review of children's meal packages

Jan 13 2021

Jersey islanders invited to join citizens' jury on assisted dying

Jan 12 2021

Councils call for Ofsted school inspections not to be resumed

Jan 12 2021

Catholic bishops call on UK to 'forsake its nuclear arsenal'

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