“We deserve to be treated with some goddamn respect”: Amazon workers picket on Black Friday
Trade Unions protested in front of Amazon’s Manchester headquarters on Black Friday as a part of their ‘Make Amazon Pay’
Massive teachers’ strike takes over St Peter’s Square
Workers took to St Peter’s Square today in support of the teachers’ strikes and to oppose the government’s new anti-strike
Osborne’s ‘living wage’ move will leave Labour floundering, claims Trafford Tory chief
Councillor Sean Anstee has heralded the move for reducing low paid workers’ reliance on tax credits while Labour MP for Manchester Central Lucy Powell dismissed the chancellor’s move as a ‘sleight of hand’ that would leave Manchester workers out of pocket.
Northern Powerhouse? North West jobs growth slower than rest of country, warns TUC
The figures shows that between 2010 and 2014 jobs growth in London (11.5%) was more than twice as fast as the UK as a whole (5.1%) and SIX times as fast as the North West (1.8%).
‘Poverty is rising’: TUC to stage Manchester protest during Tory Party Conference
The TUC will stage a national demonstration in Manchester this autumn against the government’s austerity agenda and attacks on trade unions.
George Osborne and David Cameron ‘completely out of touch’ on Budget 2014, says Oldham East MP
Figures released by the Office of National Statistics revealed unemployment has risen by 22,000 in the North West