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GREEDY Sir Philip and Lady Green have “played a game of corporate monopoly” with workers’ lives, Usdaw leader John Hannett said yesterday as the billionaire former BHS bosses were lined up to parade on a catwalk of the country’s most cash-cushioned couples.
The pair are ranked fifth in an forthcoming index of Britain’s wealthiest couples, with their riches put at £2.787 billion, though this is a fall of £433 million on last year’s estimate.
MPs have called for Monaco-based mogul Mr Green to be de-gonged since the collapse — with the loss of 11,000 jobs — of his former department store business last year.
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street