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A man vaping
PRISON teachers are getting high due to prisoners vaping in jails, TUC congress heard on Monday.
University College Union delegate Maxine Looby says she has been “absolutely horrified” by the conditions in prisons.
She told of prisoners using broken chairs as weapons during lessons in cramped windowless rooms belonging to the “Victorian age.”
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
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
With 121,000 vacancies and 44.8% of staff feeling unwell from work stress, the NHS 10-year plan will not succeed unless the government takes immediate action to retain existing staff, writes ANNETTE MANSELL-GREEN
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN