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Fact Service August 2022
Issue 34: Top CEOs’ 39% pay rise ‘big part’ of cost of living crisis; P&O Ferries escape criminal charges; TUC sets £15 minimum wage target; Consumer confidence plunges as bills rise; Organisations commit to anti-bullying and inappropriate behaviour statement. Issue 33: Inflation hits new 40 year high; Real wages fall at fastest rate for 20 years; Unions vow to resist redundancy cut plans; Educational inequalities blighting life chances for millions. Issue 32: 16 million cut back on essentials as annual energy bills head towards £4,266; Unions reject unofficial action charge; NHS strike action inches closer; TUC: nearly 1 million key worker households have children in poverty; As heatwave nears, union warns that fire service is understaffed. Issue 31: Unions blast Truss foray on pay; Third of ambulance workers ‘witnessed death due to delay’; Parliamentary committee demands workplace menopause support; NIESR: UK on road to recession; BP accused of profiteering; Union claims ‘biggest ever’ decasualisation win; Call for ‘living pensions’.
Issue 34
Top CEOs’ 39% pay rise ‘big part’ of cost of living crisis (424 words)
Median FTSE 100 CEO pay rose from £2.46 million in 2020 to £3.41 million in 2021, a 39% increase, according to the High Pay Centre and TUC. Their ...
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P&O Ferries escape criminal charges (341 words)
The Insolvency Service has announced that it is not going to pursue criminal proceedings over P&O Ferries’ sacking of 800 workers in March – ... Subscribers only
TUC sets £15 minimum wage target (561 words)
The UK minimum wage should rise to £15 an hour for all workers of all ages as part of a high wage economy that “puts an end to low-pay Britain”, ... Subscribers only
Consumer confidence plunges as bills rise (472 words)
Research by the Consumer Association’s latest Which? consumer insight tracker shows what the organisation calls the “devastating impact the cost ... Subscribers only
Organisations commit to anti-bullying and inappropriate behaviour statement (367 words)
Performing arts practitioners’ union Equity has announced a Statement of Commitment Against Bullying, Harassment and Inappropriate Behaviour in TV ... Subscribers only
Issue 33
Inflation hits new 40 year high (378 words)
Inflation rose even higher than expected in July, setting a new 40 year high of 10.1% CPI/12.3% RPI, up from 9.4% CPI/11.8 RPI the month before. It ... Subscribers only
Real wages fall at fastest rate for 20 years (743 words)
Real wages fell by 3% in April to June, as soaring inflation turned growth in average weekly pay excluding bonuses of 4.7% into the biggest drop in ... Subscribers only
Unions vow to resist redundancy cut plans (346 words)
Civil service unions have responded angrily to plans to slash redundancy payments at a time when government is contemplating huge job cuts.
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Educational inequalities blighting life chances for millions (532 words)
Research by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has found that lack of progress on closing educational inequalities is disadvantaging millions of ... Subscribers only
October price cap rise ‘to leave 13 million in the red’ (234 words)
Analysis by Citizens Advice has found that one in four (24%) people in the UK won’t be able to afford to pay their energy bills in October, based ...
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Issue 32
16 million cut back on essentials as annual energy bills head towards £4,266 (742 words)
Authoritative evidence of how the worsening cost of living crisis is affecting the country has come from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), at ... Subscribers only
Unions reject unofficial action charge (181 words)
Rail unions have written to transport secretary, Grant Shapps, accusing train operator Avanti West Coast of falsely blaming alleged unofficial strike ... Open access
NHS strike action inches closer (481 words)
Hundreds of thousands of RCN nursing union members on Agenda for Change contracts in England and Wales will have the opportunity to vote on whether ... Subscribers only
TUC: nearly 1 million key worker households have children in poverty (410 words)
Nearly one in five (19%) key worker households have children living in poverty, the TUC has found.
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As heatwave nears, union warns that fire service is understaffed (318 words)
As the next heatwave approaches, the Fire Brigades Union has warned that the fire service is understaffed and in need of urgent investment.
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Issue 31
Unions blast Truss foray on pay (414 words)
Unions have been left shaking their heads in disbelief as Liz Truss – currently the favourite to take over from Boris Johnson as prime minister – ... Subscribers only
Third of ambulance workers ‘witnessed death due to delay’ (280 words)
Over one in three (35%) ambulance workers has witnessed a case where a patient’s death was linked to delay, according to a survey by the GMB ... Subscribers only
Parliamentary committee demands workplace menopause support (432 words)
The UK parliament’s cross-party Women and Equalities Committee has issued a call to arms which strongly recommends the government should amend the ... Subscribers only
NIESR: UK on road to recession (531 words)
The UK is likely to enter recession in the third quarter of 2022 and remain there until the first quarter of 2023, according to the National ... Subscribers only
BP accused of profiteering (169 words)
The Unite general union has accused BP of “unfettered profiteering” after the energy giant announced quarterly profits of £6.9 billion, the ... Open access
Union claims ‘biggest ever’ decasualisation win (159 words)
Lecturers’ union the UCU has won what it describes as the largest decasualisation gain in the history of UK higher education
... Open access
Call for ‘living pensions’ (125 words)
Four in five workers are not saving enough money to fund a reasonable retirement, campaign group the Living Wage Foundation has said. It estimates 16 ... Open access