Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Benefits workers won’t be forced into danger
Compromising safety by extending opening hours during a pandemic is an unacceptable slap in the face for the workers who have been providing welfare when it’s never been more essential, writes LYNN HENDERSON
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
AS WE enter the deepest recession in living memory, many more workers will be thrown on the dole, especially when the furlough scheme ends. Spare a thought for those essential workers, who, throughout the national lockdown, have held up the welfare safety net for the nation to make sure the massive upturn in benefits applications were processed.
Most civil servants in the Department for Work and Pensions were not given a homeworking opportunity these past six months. Because of a lack of investment in IT that could facilitate homeworking, most struggled to balance work/home life, caring, home-schooling and all the other “new normal” pressures of lockdown living, while still having to use public transport to commute to their workplaces and rapidly adapt to new health and safety workplace measures.
And all so that they could process the huge surge in benefit claims as businesses collapsed because the economy too became locked down.
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