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Tax the wealthy to give care workers a pay rise, don’t raid ordinary workers’ pockets | Frances O’Grady

04-09-2021 21:30

A minimum wage of £10 an hour should be funded by increasing capital gains tax, not national insuranceIn a week’s time, the TUC will hold its 153rd congress in London. Shortly before I get up to give my annual address, a short film will be played of some care workers I met in Middleton, Greater Manchester, this summer.What they told me about working through the pandemic will always stay with me. Coping without personal protective equipment. The trauma of seeing the people they were c

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Pressure grows on Starmer to back tax on rich to pay for social care

04-09-2021 21:30

Party and union figures urge new policy as Manchester mayor Andy Burnham tells Labour leader: taxing wealth is the fairest way The row over how to fund social care threatens to engulf Labour this weekend as Keir Starmer faces pressure from across the party to commit to taxing the wealthy as a way to provide a system fit for the 21st century.Before the conference season, and as the government prepares to announce within days a hugely controversial increase in national insurance (NI) to fund bette

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Pigs might fly: the Tories’ social care plan – cartoon

04-09-2021 19:00

Brexit, levelling up, ‘global Britain’… what could possibly go wrong with the latest offering? Continue reading...

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Care workers in England leaving for Amazon and other better-paid jobs

04-09-2021 08:00

Retailer is luring staff with 30% higher wages, while some workers object to the care sector’s ‘no jab, no job’ policyCare workers are quitting to become Amazon warehouse pickers and for other better-paid jobs in a growing staffing crisis which operators now warn could leave 170,000 vacancies by the end of the year.In a further blow to the care sector, NHS figures published this week revealed slowing rates of double Covid vaccination among care home staff, with 87,000 in Englan

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