Millions of families around the uk are having to take loans and use
their credit cards to cover basic bills
Category Archives: Cost of living crisis
The Weakening of the Green Agenda
One of the central tenets of establishment ‘Westism’ is the primacy of the climate change agenda in international relations.
Teachers vote to accept pay offer of 6.5%
On 31st of July, Teachers from the NEU voted to accept the pay offer of 6.5%, with an increase in funding from 2.0 to 2.9 billion.
Solidarity with Amazon workers in Coventry!
Amazon’s workers at its Coventry warehouse have successfully enrolled a majority of workers, meeting the threshold for statutory recognition by law.
Budgets and Wars
If working people want to simply maintain their standard of living they will need a 10% increase in wages in 2022 and a further 2.9% increase in 2023.
Solidarity to striking Junior Doctors
This week so-called “Junior” Doctors are again taking industrial action across England for 96 hours to demand better pay and working conditions.
UK stagnant economic growth
It’s a grim economic forecast for the UK, according to the Resolution Foundation, living standards have taken the biggest hit in a 100 years.
Cost of living crisis: Unite says ‘wake up to corporate greed’
A press release was issued by Unite the Union 13 March 2023 exposing unbridled profiteering lies behind the cost-of-living crisis.
Revised pay offer for teachers in Wales
Working conditions for teachers are learning conditions for students. The Workers Party stands in solidarity with all teachers who are fighting for the fair and fully funded pay deal.
Budget Day strikes
The budget has rightly been overshadowed by the strikes and protests of the labour movement, not least because the announcement has elicited comment from the Office of Budget Responsibility that we will see the largest fall in living standards since 1956.