Alex Ferry Foundation
@AlexFerry_UK
Independent, endowed foundation. We are rooted in the union movement and remain accountable to an organised base. We focus on work and communities.
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We took ourcampaign to win justice for workers who have contracted cancer from welding fumes to the House of Commons. MPs signed up to a backbench business debate by ๐Rachael Maskell MP calling for action to recognise the condition. #breathesafe #HSE Ian Waddell Matthew Roberts
Tireless campaigner John Brown outlining the potentially fatal impact of weld fume at this afternoonโs Breathe Safe event in Parliament
'It's been kind of remarkable how successful these trials have been for both employees and employers,' said Schor.
She said the biggest takeaway is that ๐๐% ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ ๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ ๐จ ๐๐๐๐ค ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐-๐๐๐ฒโฆ
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AI could enable at least 9 ๐ข๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ค๐ฃ workers in Great Britain to move to a four-day week.
A report by independent think tank Autonomy sets out the possibility of AI being utilised to shorten the working week in Great Britain, whilst maintaining pay andโฆ
A thriving green steel industry is critical for a just transition in manufacturing. But the investment in Tata announced today ignores union concerns & puts 3000 jobs at risk.
Read our interactive, featuring testimony from steel workers in Port Talbot ๐
common-wealth.org/interactive/a-โฆ
Assessing Fair Work in Scotland โ The Jimmy Reid Foundation supported and funded by โฆAlex Ferry Foundationโฉ reidfoundation.scot/2023/08/assessโฆ
One year from our Alex Ferry Foundation funded report โUsing data to build strong unionsโ, exec director Becky Wright will be taking part in a DAMA UK discussion, looking at:
- Whatโs new?
- What have we learned?
- What we still have to learn?
Sign up here:
zurl.co/GzxJ
Wow! A huge #ThankYou on #thankyouThursday to the incredible Alex Ferry Foundation for their generous donation which will allow us to place community defibrillators, teach CPR & offer Heart Screening sessions through our #mobileheartscreeningmission
#CSR #Kindness #SocailResponsibility
Questions over transparency around the #Teeswork site have raised questions about #freeports . Our new paper by Sean Benstead examines the debate, & offers a six-point plan developed from our exploration of how freeports can be done differently. More here: bit.ly/43pBLz1
