A £12bn cut in welfare will put huge pressure on the NHS
I have worked enough hours on the front line of the NHS to see where the next crisis will come from. The people who suffer stoically through humiliating cuts to…
How the economic crisis is being used to attack employment rights across Europe
A new Working Paper by Isabelle Schömann (ETUI) and Stefan Clauwaert (ETUI) “The Crisis and National Labour Law Reforms: A Mapping Exercise” sets out how the economic crisis is being…
What to make of the latest claims on living standards?
The Government are today claiming that ‘take home pay’ has risen for 90% of workers. If true this would be excellent news but I’m afraid there a quite a few…
CLASS Panel Reacts To Summer Statement
Our expert panel reflect on what Rishi Sunak’s Summer Statement means for workers, the environment, inequality and tax. Think again Chancellor Steve Turner – Assistant General Secretary, Unite the Union…
Osborne’s Northern Powerhouse centralises power and devolves blame
Central Control but local delivery The Sheffield City Deal – part of George Osborne’s Northern Powerhouse project – was announced last week to coincide with the Conservative Party conference. The…
Labour Market Realities: Public Sector Workers
Figures out today show that unemployment has dropped to 4.7%, the lowest rate since 1975. But in our new series we scratch below these headline and often misleading statistics. This…
Cameron’s new crusade against criminal wage-workers
There’s a new type of criminal out and about in Britain today, and Cameron gave us fair warning that his government is out to scotch their nefarious activities in his…
Obsession Over Government Debt Is Bad for the Economy
This month the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released their first Fiscal Monitor of the year – a document surveying and analysing the latest public finance developments as part of their…
Attacks on legal aid will mean access to justice is only for the rich
Ahead of UK Uncut action on Saturday 5th September – Prof Marjorie Mayo outlines why legal aid is so important. You might think that there would be broad agreement about…
In an era of public spending restraint, how can economic inequality be addressed?
There is a large volume of evidence about the problem of economic inequality in the UK. Yet as much as we need to know about the misery of its real-life…
Day1: Brexit: Implications for young people
The Brexit Generation Over the next week hundreds of thousands of young people will be receiving their A-Level and GCSE results. To mark the occasion Class has put together a…