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Tory Business Secretary Greg Clark
JOHN McDONNELL has urged Business Secretary Greg Clark to “personally intervene” to help his department’s agency workers, who have been forced to use foodbanks and take strike action against poverty pay.
The shadow chancellor called on Mr Clark to step in as workers at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) begin four days of strike action tomorrow.
The cleaners and caterers, who are members of the PCS union, are employed by subcontracting giants ISS and Aramark.
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
Our members face daily abuse, being spat at, sometimes even deadly assaults, and employers fail to take the issue seriously despite the increasing danger, writes RMT general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY