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Fact Service May 2023
Issue 21 Inflation slows but food prices continue to Soar; Union membership dipped last year; Teachers’ unions react to pay leak; Government votes down strikes bill Amendments; Work-related suicides ‘should be investigated by HSE’; Coalition to stage ‘save our schools’ lobby.
Issue 20 TUC calls emergency protest against strikes bill; Record numbers out of work because of ill Health; Consumer group calls on PM to intervene over soaring food prices; Uni support staff vote to strike; Two out of three young women report harassment at work; Public ownership ‘would end profiteering’.
Issue 19 One in five could lose right to strike; Amazon faces strike ‘chaos’; One in five food workers relying on food banks; Prison officers ‘furious’ over medal snub; Worker shortages leading to increased staff hours; Tanker drivers win 24% rise; Union bids goodbye to sex workers’ section; 700,000 households failed to make housing payment.
issue 18 Unions challenge law change in High Court; NHS Staff Council votes to accept pay offer; School unions to coordinate strike action; Organisations join to warn of return to 1970s casualty rates; Record high food price inflation ‘may have. peaked’
Issue 21
Inflation slows but food prices continue to soar (295 words)
The rocketing rate of inflation slowed in the 12 months to April, falling to 8.7% CPI/11.4 RPI – down from 10.1% and 13.5% respectively the ...
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Union membership dipped last year (347 words)
UK trade union membership dipped last year, with the proportion of employees who were trade union members reducing to 22.3% (6.25 million workers), ... Subscribers only
Teachers’ unions react to pay leak (447 words)
Education unions have been swift to comment after the Sunday Times revealed that the sector’s independent pay review body has recommended that ... Subscribers only
Government votes down strikes bill amendments (213 words)
As trade unionists rallied outside Parliament on Monday in a TUC-organised emergency protest, government MPs voted down several amendments that had ...
Open access
Work-related suicides ‘should be investigated by HSE’ (731 words)
Unions have embraced a call by two academics for work-related suicides to be investigated by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The pair made ... Subscribers only
Coalition to stage ‘save our schools’ lobby (146 words)
Education unions the ASCL, NAHT and NEU, along with public services union UNISON and the National Governance Association (NGA) have announced plans ... Open access
Issue 20
TUC calls emergency protest against strikes bill (220 words)
The TUC is organising an emergency protest to defend the right to strike, taking place in London next week. ... Open access
Record numbers out of work because of ill health (788 words)
The number of people out of work due to long-term sickness has reached a record high according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It also ... Subscribers only
Consumer group calls on PM to intervene over soaring food prices (407 words)
Which? has called on the prime minister – who is holding a “food summit” this week – to protect shoppers from “shockingly high” food ... Subscribers only
Uni support staff vote to strike (339 words)
Support staff at nine universities in England have voted to strike for better pay, the UNISON public services union has announced. ... Subscribers only
Two out of three young women report harassment at work (331 words)
A TUC poll of 1,010 women has found that three in five (58%) report having experienced harassment at work, and this rises to almost two in three ... Subscribers only
Public ownership ‘would end profiteering’ (152 words)
Taking energy back into public ownership would end the “scandal of energy company profiteering”, Unite has said ... Open access
Issue 19
One in five could lose right to strike (246 words)
One in five workers could lose the right to strike if the proposed Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is passed unamended, the TUC has said. ... Open access
Amazon faces strikes ‘chaos’ (321 words)
Amazon could be facing new strikes at more warehouses as the GMB general union launched further strike ballots. Workers at the retail giant’s ... Subscribers only
One in five food workers ‘relying on food banks’ (322 words)
Nearly one in five of the workers who supply the nation’s food are themselves using food banks according to a survey of its members by the Bakers, ... Subscribers only
Prison officers ‘furious’ over medal snub (106 words)
GMB says that thousands of private prison and court officers are furious after being denied a medal. ... Open access
Worker shortages leading to increased staff hours (296 words)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that almost a third (31%) of businesses with 10 or more employees were experiencing worker ... Subscribers only
Tanker drivers win 24% rise (213 words)
Tanker drivers working on a contract for the Morrisons supermarket chain have won a pay increase of 24%, the Unite general union has reported. ... Open access
Union bids goodbye to sex workers’ section (182 words)
The UVW union is saying farewell to its United Sex Workers (USW) section. It explains that the section is disbanding and its members will be joining ... Open access
700,000 households failed to make housing payment (428 words)
Some 700,000 households missed a rent or mortgage payment in the last month, according to the Which? consumer association. ... Subscribers only
Issue 18
Unions challenge law change in High Court (384 words)
A long-awaited legal challenge to the government’s decision to repeal laws that restrict employers from using agency workers during industrial ... Subscribers only
NHS Staff Council votes to accept pay offer (927 words)
The NHS Staff Council, which includes trade unions representing more than a million health workers, has voted to accept the government’s pay offer ... Subscribers only
School unions to coordinate strike action (279 words)
The general secretaries of four education unions have announced that they plan to coordinate their industrial action. ... Subscribers only
Organisations join to warn of return to 1970s casualty rates (538 words)
An impressive alliance of unions, employers, the TUC, and health and safety organisations has joined together to warn that the Retained EU Law Bill ... Subscribers only
Record high food price inflation ‘may have peaked’ (152 words)
Food price inflation has reached a new record high – hitting 15.7% in April, up from 15% in March – but may have peaked, according to the ... Open access