The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
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AFG carers – sleeping-in but losing out
HEATHER WAKEFIELD explains why undervalued and underpaid care workers at the Alternative Futures Group are taking strike action
Today’s interconnected conflicts are enriching the arms industry while pushing the entire world towards permanent militarisation, argues ROGER McKENZIE
by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
ALTERNATIVE Futures Group (AFG) is a 20-year-old charity and one of the largest social care providers in the north-west of England.
With 2,500 employees and 20 public-sector commissioners — 15 of them councils — it is a big player in the provision of care services to 1,200 people with learning and physical disabilities and complex care needs and it’s one which prides itself on providing “person-centred services.”
Delve into the AFG website and you will also see that it tells prospective employees: “In return for your contribution we will support you throughout your career and provide a wide range of employee benefits, career development and lifestyle support services to ensure that you feel supported, fulfilled and valued from day one of your employment with us.”
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