Our Sumission to the Treasury for the Autumn Budget. tuc.org.uk/news/labours-f…

💶Government policy must support the purchasing power of consumers to 🟢combat low growth and prevent job losses 🍏enable working people to buy more climate & environment friendly goods TUAC Vice President Therese Guovelin tells OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives #ConsumerPolicy Ministers

The government's employment rights bill is a big deal. From overhauling unfair dismissal protection, to getting zero hours workers onto secure contracts, to enabling unions to recruit in new workplaces, it could shake up employment relations.

Here's quick take on some of its key elements: tuc.org.uk/blogs/massive-…

Last year I was commissioned by the UK ministry of housing to write a report on the demand side-drivers of the housing affordability crisis. After some election-related delays, here it is. (1/13) ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

Apparently at WH Smith station bookshop at Milton Keynes Central ... Fine work, people. Fine work.

.Matthias Schmelzer second book 'the hegemony of growth' is brilliant and important. The cover and the title alone have already sold me on this newly issued translation of his first book.

Solidarity with Argentina 🇦🇷✈️ Strong message of support for Argentinian aviation unions facing government threats to their labour rights from ITF Civil Aviation Section Conference at #ITFCongress2024 APA APLA

In their August report the Bank of England expected 2.1%. Instead CPI is 1.7%: tuc.org.uk/news/interest-…

Andrew Bailey: "For me, the founding father of more developed financial stability theory was Hyman Minsky". bankofengland.co.uk/speech/2024/oc…

Ahead of Chancellor Rachel Reeves presenting #Budget2024 later today (and Steven Swinford presenting it this morn), some thoughts on things to watch out for on #tax (and some things we might be disappointed not to see) 🧵 Centre for the Analysis of Taxation #taxtwitter

Today's budget is a vital first step towards the growth, jobs and living standards working people desperately need. The Chancellor was dealt a terrible hand by the Conservatives – economic chaos, falling living standards and broken public services. But with today’s budget she

The government is raising employer national insurance contributions to boost public services. The Low Pay Commission published evidence that most employers absorb higher costs without impacts on pay growth. Protections like the National Living Wage increase and new worker

🚨#OECD How's Life Report 2024 “with warning signals on material deprivation, well-being & trust flashing red, economies & labour markets are not robust enough to withstand the turn to a competitiveness, austerity and deregulation agenda'' veronica nilsson tuac.org/news/oecd-repo…

Today we show solidarity in the workplace with the horrendous situation in Gaza. Thousands of Palestinians - mainly women and children - have been killed by Israeli military operations and many more are injured. We need an immediate and permanent ceasefire, an end to the

WATCH: Amazon bosses squirm and repeatedly FAIL to answer the question: If Amazon is such a great employer, why have your workers gone on strike so much?

FAO: Bank of England The risks to the economy and employment are greater than those to inflation: tuc.org.uk/blogs/bank-eng…

2 days to go ! Sign up for the PEF conference at SOAS: : progressiveeconomyforum.com/events/progres…… Speakers include Jonathan Portes Danny Dorling News Yanis Varoufakis by video Jo Michell Will Hutton Nadia Whittome MP Zack Polanski geoff tily Ben Tippet John McDonnell

The Office for Budget Responsibility has hardwired austerity into British fiscal policymaking. It is an independent institution with too much power and too little democratic scrutiny. It must go. My new report NEF suggests what should replace it Thread ⬇️