Around 50 workers employed by Edinburgh Airport Services Ltd (EASL) have won an above-inflation pay agreement through Unite. The two-year settlement improves basic wages and shift payments for workers whose roles include customer services, driving and baggage handling. They’ve used…
Consultants in England are preparing to strike for two days from 6.59am on 25 November, with only emergency cover provided. More than three-quarters of those who took part in the British Medical Association’s ballot voted for action. The government wants…
Andy Burnham plans to remove the automatic annual link between the state pension and earnings. The change would allow less generous increases, while workers are advised to make up for inadequate retirement provision by saving more. The employers who’ve profited…
L’Oreal has found a new market in the faces of people who’ve lost weight. The beauty giant is selling products aimed at the loose skin that can follow rapid weight loss, including among users of GLP-1 drugs. Having lived under…
Barclays has announced a reduction of around 5,000 jobs and a profit of £2.3bn for the three months to September. The profit is higher than it was a year ago. Nevertheless, it falls a little short of the forecasts, and…
Melanie Sloan, lead author of a study of more than 6,600 people with autoimmune conditions, asks doctors to say “I believe you” to patients whose symptoms they cannot see. We are still having to demand that medicine take a woman’s…
Nigel Farage has announced that a Reform UK government would immediately deport 90,000 asylum seekers and reject all new asylum claims for five years. The Guardian introduces these proposals with the warning that “Children and mothers would not be exempt”….
Many English councils have discovered a splendid economy: remove the parking machines, save the cost of maintaining them, and make the motorist pay a private company to collect the money. Where the app is compulsory, the company is spared even…
Thousands marched through central London on Saturday against three years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and Britain’s part in sustaining it. Organisers put the turnout at 250,000. The demonstrators demanded an end to British arms supplies to Israel. For the…
Wes Streeting’s remark that mental health conditions were being “overdiagnosed” came during a discussion of disability benefit cuts. What a convenient explanation for cutting benefits! If the growth of distress can be attributed to an excess of diagnoses, the government…
