Work and Unions
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The NHS is heading for crisis this Christmas
Underfunded hospitals are buckling under the strain – and we can’t let the Tories off the hook, writes Kane Shaw
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‘Faster, faster, faster’: The diary of a hotel cleaner
In the opening post of a new blog project, the anonymous ‘Maid in London’ describes her first day cleaning a luxury London hotel
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The myth of the 1970s
In the 1970s, they say, the dead lay unburied, greedy unions held the country to ransom and a divided country was impossible to govern, John Medhurst asks: was it really so bad?
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How Japanese workers are fighting against karoshi
Scott North looks at the history of the anti-karoshi movement in Japan and its struggle against death and injury from overworking
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Young people the latest target in Labour’s lurch to the right
Labour’s austerity-inspired welfare proposals will penalise young adults for circumstances beyond their control, writes Andrew Dolan
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How to know if you’ve been blacklisted and what you can do
Solicitor David Sorensen explains what the blacklisting scandal could mean to you.
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Thatcher didn’t save the economy, she wrecked it
Alex Nunns argues that the right’s celebrations of Margaret Thatcher’s economic record are an attempt to rewrite history