BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further
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When the nightmares of domestic and sexual abuse come to work
Sexual abuse is not often thought of as a workplace issue. LOUISE RAW spotlights some of the harrowing ordeals women face – and how the Bakers Union is teaming up with women’s rights activists to raise awareness of the problem
Rachel Williams, who had her knee shot by her abusive husband
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
“OF THOSE who had experienced domestic violence, over 40 per cent said it had affected their ability to work” (TUC Survey).
Talented, friendly and good with customers, Rachel Williams was everything an employer could ask for, yet the salon owner in Newport, South Wales, where she worked as a junior hairstylist until 2002 found that employing her “came with problems.”
This was something of an understatement. Rachel was in a relationship with a controlling and dangerous man and, as her colleagues would discover, domestic abusers rarely confine control over victims’ lives to the domestic sphere.
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