Amid all the political drama over the weekend, with the fallout from the elections and then calls on the Prime Minister to resign, there was also a significant development in the campaign for proportional representation. On Sunday, members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) voted decisively to reject Westminster’s failing First Past the Post (FPTP) electoral system and back a move to …
Continue readingEvery day, an estimated 8,000 people die due to unsafe and unhealthy working conditions according to a report from the International Labour Organization (ILO) published in October 2025. About 1,000 workers die from accidents and 7,000 from work-related diseases, accounting for 5–7% of all deaths globally. They die because an employer decided profit mattered more, because a warning was ignored, …
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