Honour your living wage promise, unions tell Boris Johnson
Workers are holding the PM’s feet to the fire, after Johnson told MPs that all departments should pay the London Living Wage.
Workers are holding the PM’s feet to the fire, after Johnson told MPs that all departments should pay the London Living Wage.
Luis, one workers on strike at the MoJ, said they call it the “Ministry of Injustice”
And employment tribunal has found Picturehouse Cinemas – the owner of the infamous Ritzy cinema in south London – guilty of unfairly dismissing its staff.
Workers at a recycling plant kicked off a wildcat strike after management refuses to replace breathing masks’ filters.
Over 600,000 London families in receipt of child and working-tax credits are at risk of being plunged into poverty
A slightly higher minimum wage will not be enough to offset cuts to tax credits
The capital’s vulnerable communities can’t take much more Tory ideology
Despite Boris’ pronouncements, almost one in five Londoners do not earn enough to afford a decent quality of life
As the graph from Green Party London Assembly member Jenny Jones shows, the National Minimum Wage has failed to keep up with London’s rising cost of living.
The London Living Wage has raised the issue of poverty pay up the political agenda; it is now time to move to a statutory living wage.