Bakers’ union leads fight for £10/hr minimum wage
SSP national workplace organiser Richie Venton spoke to the Regional Officer of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union, Alan Milne Richie asked Alan about the ...
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Capitalist corruption in breadline Britain
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser There’s a stink of corruption arising from the body of capitalism. The world’s second-biggest bank, HSBC, has hit the ...
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 ...
Tory class war on workers’ rights
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Anyone who doubts we are in the midst of a class war hasn’t been awake recently! The Tory party election manifesto for ...
£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 ...
Tax office spends public money on union-busting
by a PCS representative The revelations on 13 November of a union-busting plot at the heart of HMRC should come as no surprise to all socialists and students of trade union ...
Diverse movement is Yes’s greatest strength
by Ken Ferguson Truly we live in brutal times both nationally and internationally, with leading accountants KPMG producing a report showing 5.2 million UK citizens being paid ...
Unions must break from Labour Tories: stop funding arsonists to torch your home!
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser On 1 July 2014 I wrote an article for the Voice—“Ructions after the Referendum”—which included the statement: ...
Why the SSP backs a ‘Citizen’s Income’
by Gerry McCartney and Wendy Macdonald At its annual conference in Edinburgh last month the SSP decided to campaign for the introduction of a Citizen’s Income (CI) and to ...
TTIP: a threat to democracy
by Bill Newman The innocent-sounding US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is currently being prepared behind closed doors by overpaid corporate lawyers ...
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