For action against poverty and insecurity
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The British TUC meets in Manchester for its annual congress, 150 years after its founding meeting in the Mechanics Institute of the same city. ...
poverty pay
Unions must take action for £10NOW
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The season of major trade union conferences is kicking off, amidst the cacophony of barefaced lies about the Tories’ £7.20 for over-25s ...
‘We can’t give up on Zero Hours Contracts just because the Tories have a majority’
Richie Venton spoke to Alan Milne, Scottish Organiser of the Bakers, Food & Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) on current events and campaigns What’s been happening lately on the campaign amongst ...
Homeless caseworkers’ strike
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Seventy caseworkers in Glasgow city council’s Homeless Service have been staging an indefinite strike since 31 March. These workers, members of ...
Billionaires and buttons for wages
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser The crime of poverty pay is becoming even more criminal. In a cheap stunt to absorb some of the growing fury of working class people at appalling ...
Fat Cat Tuesday: who says £10-an-hour is unrealistic?
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Next time somebody says that the SSP’s campaign for a £10 an hour national minimum wage is unrealistic, or would damage the economy, spare a ...
Show zero-hours contracts the red card
by Calum Martin, Edinburgh South and Midlothian SSP The start of the New Year: a time of consideration of resolutions for the year ahead. Amidst the crisp weather of the New Year, Scottish Socialist ...
£10 NOW! For a Scottish minimum wage to outlaw poverty pay
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Poverty scars the face of Scotland. Poverty pay is at the heart of it. And the only thing more ugly than the national scandal of a million Scots ...
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