#labour
Labour's vision for the NHS is getting grim
As #Labour tries to please both #private and public interests, its policies for the #NHS are in danger of costing a lot and achieving little
Labour’s seeming preoccupation with ensuring the private sector benefits in some way from any investment in the NHS, is incongruent with both the #healthcare crisis and any sense of #economic prudence.
https://bylines.scot/health/labours-vision-for-the-nhs-is-getting-grim/
700 mine workers at Tabas mine resigned in protest against unsafe working conditions and heavy fines.
On September 31, in a big disaster, at least 53 mine workers died due to methane gas explosion in Tabas mine.
This disaster broke the record in terms of the number of people killed and was named the deadliest mining accident. Only in the six months leading to Mehr of this year, 20 mining accidents have occurred in Iran with at least 60 deaths.
During the explosion of the Tabas mine, the wagons that were supposed to extract the coal, this time, took out the lifeless bodies of the workers from the dark corridors of the mine.
Although the Tabas mine was sealed after the explosion, it has been a few days since this mine was reopened without any changes.
Now, 700 workers out of a total of 2,000 workers of this mine have resigned en masse in protest of the lack of work safety.
700 mine workers at Tabas mine resigned in protest against unsafe working conditions and heavy fines.
On September 31, in a big disaster, at least 53 mine workers died due to methane gas explosion in Tabas mine.
This disaster broke the record in terms of the number of people killed and was named the deadliest mining accident. Only in the six months leading to Mehr of this year, 20 mining accidents have occurred in Iran with at least 60 deaths.
During the explosion of the Tabas mine, the wagons that were supposed to extract the coal, this time, took out the lifeless bodies of the workers from the dark corridors of the mine.
Although the Tabas mine was sealed after the explosion, it has been a few days since this mine was reopened without any changes.
Now, 700 workers out of a total of 2,000 workers of this mine have resigned en masse in protest of the lack of work safety.
#Labour's pro-growth agenda put in context, and how economies must change to face current and future challenges.
A good 15 minute listen.
#BenJennings on #DonaldTrump’s claim of #Labour interference in the #US #election – #cartoon | Ben Jennings | The Guardian
https://kolektiva.social/@RustyBertrand/113317885058108992 RustyBertrand@kolektiva.social - When Frances Perkins was a little girl, she asked her parents why nice people could be poor. Her father told her not to worry about those things, and that poor people were poor because they were lazy and drank.
Eventually, she went to Mount Holyoke College, and majored in physics. In her final semester, she took a class in American economic history and toured the mills along the Connecticut River to see working conditions. She was horrified.
Eventually, instead of teaching until she married, she earned a masters degree in social work from Columbia University. In 1910, Perkins became Executive Secretary of the New York City Consumers League.
She campaigned for sanitary regulations for bakeries, fire protection for factories, and legislation to limit the working hours for women and children in factories to 54 hours per week. She worked mainly in New York State’s capital, Albany. Here, she made friends with politicians, and learned how to lobby.
On March 25th, 1911, Frances was having tea with friends when they heard fire engines. They ran to see what was happening, and witnessed one of the worst workplace disasters in US history. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was devastating, killing 146 people, mostly young women and girls.
Frances watched as fire escapes collapsed and fireman ladders couldn’t reach the women trapped by the flames. She watched 47 workers leap to their deaths from the 8th and 9th floors.
Poignantly, just a year before these same women and girls had fought for and won the 54 hour work week and other benefits that Frances had championed.
These women weren’t just tragic victims, they were heroes of the labor force. Frances at that moment resolved to make sure their deaths meant something.
A committee to study reforms in safety in factories was formed, and Perkins became the secretary. The group took on not only fire safety, but all other health issues they could think of. Perkins, by that time a respected expert witness, helped draft the most comprehensive set of laws regarding workplace health and safety in the country. Other states started copying New York’s new laws to protect workers.
Perkins continued to work in New York for decades, until she was asked by President Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him only if he agreed with her goals: 40-hour work week, minimum wage, unemployment and worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, federal aid to the states for unemployment, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. He agreed. Similar to what she had worked for in New York, her successes became the New Deal, and changed the country and its workers forever.
So while you may not know her name, you certainly know her legacy.
The two sides have agreed to a 62% 😳
Source: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/03/nx-s1-5139450/dockworkers-port-strike-deal
How blatantly must you have exploited your workers to make such wage increases possible?
#exploitation #wages #wage #job #work #labour #Problem #politics #economy #humanrights #fail #usa #news
Teure Geschenke an Labour-Spitzen: Miese Stimmung bei Starmer
Die britische Regierungspartei sackt in den Umfragen ab. Sie verheddert sich in Skandalen um Geschenke von Spendern an den Premier und seine Minister.#KeirStarmer #LabourParty #Labour #Großbritannien #Europa #Politik
Teure Geschenke an Labour-Spitzen: Miese Stimmung bei Starmer
“It was LABOUR who SIGNED OFF on Palestine Action co-founder terror charges”
“Palestine Action has revealed that the Labour government’s attorney general, Richard Hermer, personally signed off on the terrorism charges the state is bringing against the group’s co-founder Richard Barnard.”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/09/18/palestine-action-terror-charges
#Press #Labour #Starmer #Hermer #PalAction #TerrorismAct #ElbitSystems #Israel #Genocide #Palestine
Sozialkürzungen in Großbritannien
Stress mit den eigenen Leuten
Von Daniel Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski
Die britische Labour-Partei setzt sich bei der Kürzung von Heizkostenzuschüssen für Rentner durch. Doch es gibt Widerstand gegen die Sparpolitik.
#taz #tageszeitung #Großbritannien #Labour #Party #Keir #Starmer #Sozialhilfe #Jeremy #Corbyn #Altersarmut
Labour’s plan to cut winter fuel payments to pensioners – cartoon
#Labour #OAP #pensioners #pension #retirement #heating #WinterFuelAllowance #electricity #CutsKill #Starmer #austerity
Rechte Krawalle in Großbritannien
„England braucht Einwanderung“
Von Daniel Bax
Warum richteten sich die Ausschreitungen in England gegen Flüchtlinge und Muslime? Die Soziologin Aleksandra Lewicki macht die Politik verantwortlich.
Schwerpunkt: Rassismus
Schwerpunkt: Flucht
#taz #tageszeitung #Großbritannien #Rechtsextremismus #Flüchtlingspolitik #Muslime #Keir #Starmer #Tories #Labour #Party #Nigel #Farage #Elon #Musk #Brexit
US #chip #factory #workers say it’s a ‘struggle to survive’ on their #wages as #industry booms
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/05/chip-factory-workers-wages
Workers are pushing for a $27 #minimum #wage at the #semiconductor plant, which they say is the minimum required to live in the #Beaverton area. They are currently paid around $21 an hour.
#usa #economy #news #work #job #business #life #money #finance #business #justice #labour #fail #capitalism #system
Rechter Mob in Großbritannien: Stichwortgeber für die Schande
Rechte Gewalttäter attackieren Flüchtlingsunterkünfte in ehemaligen Hotels. Die Ressentiments, die dazu führten, schürt die Politik selbst.#Flüchtlingspolitik #Großbritannien #Labour #Rechtspopulismus #Rechtsextremismus #KeirStarmer #Debatte #Gesellschaft
Rechter Mob in Großbritannien: Stichwortgeber für die Schande
Rechter Mob in Groß-Britannien: Stichwortgeber für die Schande
Rechte Gewalttäter attackieren Flüchtlingsunterkünfte in ehemaligen Hotels. Die Ressentiments, die dazu führten, schürt die Politik selbst.#Flüchtlingspolitik #Großbritannien #Labour #Rechtspopulismus #Rechtsextremismus #KeirStarmer #Debatte #Gesellschaft
Rechter Mob in Groß-Britannien: Stichwortgeber für die Schande