Whilst media attention focuses on the impact the EU referendum seems to be having on relations between members of the Conservative Party, there are more serious concerns about the impact the result could have on rights for working people. The reality is that many positive changes for workers in the UK have happened directly as…
When public servants protested over low pay on 10 July the reaction of some was to seek to divide public and private sector workers – suggesting that the public sector has endured less of a wage squeeze than the private sector.
Richard Exell was right to highlight the problem of growing inequalities between regions of the UK. This, like in many areas of economic policy, has been made much worse under the policies of the Coalition government. In his article Richard emphasises the issue of ‘brain drain’ and the dynamic wage spirals, going ever up in…