Rolls-Royce Announces Plans To Slash 400 Engineers – Morning Star
Nearly 400 engineering jobs in the Midlands were on the chopping block today after Rolls-Royce announced a mass layoff. The defence contractor said it was cutting 378 jobs – nearly...
View ArticleRemploy Jobs Axe Deal To Be Investigated By Spending Watchdog – Daily Record
THE public spending watchdog are to investigate a secret deal to sell a Remploy factory and throw 50 disabled staff on the scrapheap. The National Audit Office have been handed...
View ArticleWorkers Hail Glasgow Equal Pay Ruling
This article, written by Malcolm Burns, was first published in the Morning Star on 1st February 2013 Unison Scotland welcomed a landmark Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling today that could improve...
View ArticleBarclays To Axe Over 3,700 Jobs In Wake Of Tumbling Profits
This article, written by Tony Patey, was first published in the Morning Star on 12th February 2013 (Images added by Welfare News Service). Scandalous bank Barclays announced today that it...
View ArticleFour People ‘Chasing Each Job’
This article written by Peter Lazenby was first published in the Morning Star on 10th March 2013. (Images added by Welfare News Service.) Britain is facing a “deeply worrying” jobs crisis...
View ArticleWelfare News Service Newsletter, 14/03/2013
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View ArticleNHS Marchers Rally To Save Hospital Jobs
NHS campaigners resisting plans to axe wards and gut hundreds of jobs at Londons Whittington Hospital
View ArticleUnite Exposes Tory Ploy To Weaken Workers Rights
The government is planning to cut the consultation period for mass redundancies from 90 to 45 days, according to Unite.
View ArticleClear Indication Of Further Welfare Cuts To Come, Say Citizens Advice Bureau
Citizens Advice criticises Budget that ‘gives with one hand and takes away with the other’.
View ArticleInternships In London Out Of Reach Of Most UK Youngsters, Say TUC
Many young people desperate for a job see unpaid internships as their best chance of getting experience of work.
View ArticleWelfare News Service Newsletter, 09/03/2013
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Part-Time Workers Are Often Carers – Don’t Underestimate Their Value
This article titled “Part-time workers are often carers – don’t underestimate their value” was written by Anna Coote, for guardian.co.uk on Wednesday 23rd January 2013 13.53 UTC There are three...
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Rolls-Royce Announces Plans To Slash 400 Engineers – Morning Star
Nearly 400 engineering jobs in the Midlands were on the chopping block today after Rolls-Royce announced a mass layoff. The defence contractor said it was cutting 378 jobs – nearly half the total – at...
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Mother Issues Timely Warning That Coalition Cuts Risks Lives
This article written by Paddy McGuffin was first published in the Morning Star on 17th April 2013. The mother of a teenage apprentice killed while at work has questioned the disparity between the...
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Disabled To Lose £3,000 In Benefits
This article written by Rory MacKinnon was first published by the Morning Star on 7 May 2013. Just one in 10 households are set to gain anything from the Con-Dem universal credit scheme, with half...
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62,500 Axed In Scots Jobs Massacre
This article written by Rory MacKinnon was first published in the Morning Star on 9 May 2013. photo credit: Highways Agency via photopin cc Scottish construction workers pledged today to defend rates...
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Is There An Alternative To Osborne’s Austerity? You’re Damn Right There Is!
photo credit: Aspex Design: Photos by Dean Thorpe via photopin cc By Steven Preece Walking down my local high street I see yet another boarded up business and I think to myself, “there goes another...
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Work Programme Staff Struggle To Help Unemployed When ‘Jobs Aren’t There’
This article titled “Work Programme staff struggle to help unemployed when ‘jobs aren’t there’” was written by Amelia Gentleman, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 20th May 2013 16.27 UTC An unemployed...
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Welfare News Service Newsletter, 20/05/2013
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Research: UK Jobs Market Strengthens, But Number Of People Fighting For Each...
Embargoed Until Midnight 21 May 2013 Research seen by the Welfare News Service, shows the number of available job vacancies has risen, but also shows that the number of people chasing each of those...
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