46 h. ago TUC leader urges Government to show it is on the side of workers

Paul Nowak said Labour should recognise the public mood for decent jobs, pay and working conditions.

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3 d. ago Why Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous | Daniel Malinsky

From the firing of the labor statistics chief to plans for a new census, the president’s moves serve to entrench authoritarianismIn 1937, Joseph Stalin commissioned a sweeping census of the Soviet Union. The data reflected some uncomfortable facts – in particular, the dampening of population growth in areas devastated by the 1933 famine – and so Stalin’s government suppressed the release of the survey results. Several high-level government statistical workers responsible for the census were subsequently imprisoned and apparently executed. Though the Soviet authorities would proudly trumpet national statistics that glorified the USSR’s achievements, any numbers that did not fit the preferred narrative were buried.A few weeks ago, following the release of “disappointing” jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Donald Trump fired the commissioner of labor statistics, Dr Erika McEntarfer, and claimed the numbers were “rigged”. He also announced his intention to commission a...

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1 week ago Democrats ask Trump to resume a major offshore wind project near Rhode Island

The Democratic governors of Rhode Island and Connecticut, members of Congress and union workers are calling on the Trump administration to allow a major offshore wind project to move forward

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1 week ago Britain facing ‘acute challenges’, Andrew Bailey tells economic summit

Bank of England chief tells Jackson Hole event of concern about weak growth and fall in worker numbersBritain faces an “acute challenge” from its weak underlying economic growth and a drop in the number of workers since the pandemic, according to the Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey.A rise in the number of people defined as long-term sick and a big drop in young people in work – factors that he suggested might be intertwined – added to the squeeze created by an ageing population. Continue reading...

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1 week ago UK faces ‘acute challenge’ from weak growth and shrinking workforce, says Andrew Bailey

Bank of England governor tells Jackson Hole summit that ageing population is adding to the squeezeBritain faces an “acute challenge” from its weak underlying economic growth and a drop in the number of workers since the pandemic, according to the Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey.A rise in the number of people defined as long-term sick and a big drop in young people in work – factors that he suggested might be intertwined – added to the squeeze created by an ageing population. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Government workers are ‘canary in coalmine’ for Trump bid to gut union rights, leaders warn

Administration has stripped hundreds of thousands of their union contracts as White House says it is just getting startedThe Trump administration has unilaterally stripped hundreds of thousands of federal workers of their union contracts after a federal appeals court overruled an injunction which halted the plans. It is just getting started, according to the White House.An executive order issued in March sought to cancel all collective bargaining agreements for most federal employees, citing national security concerns – and remove collective bargaining rights from more than a million workers. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Steel workers face ‘huge uncertainty’ after Government takeover – union

Charlotte Brumpton-Childs, GMB national officer, told the BBC that workers have dealt with a ‘yo-yo’ while the matter went through the courts.

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3 w. ago Government names technical colleges to train 40,000 construction workers

Ten construction technical excellence colleges will help reduce reliance on foreign construction workers, Government says.

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