Letter to the News & Star from TUSC candidate Brent Kennedy: The shocking way the Cumbria County Council is mistreating its loyal employees – “accept our one-sided contract with a massive wage cut or you’re sacked” – would be bad enough from the worst employers even in America. But this is being done by a [...]
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Labour cuts
Posted in economy, Labour Party on April 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Tax dodgers
Posted in economy on April 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A letter to the News & Star from TUSC candidate Brent Kennedy about tax dodgers and the deficit: How more blatant could it be that this government of millionaires rules only in the interests of a rich minority at the expense of the majority? It was bad enough that they allowed Vodaphone to escape paying [...]
The rich are fighting a class war
Posted in economy on April 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A letter to the News & Star from TUSC candidate Brent Kennedy: Those criticising the idea that a class war is being waged have missed the point: That this war was launched against working and middle class people by the wealthiest few, and that we should defend ourselves. For some people this truth is just [...]
All in this together?
Posted in economy on April 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A letter to the News & Star from TUSC candidate Daniel Thorburn: If “we’re all in it together”, how come while workers’ real wages are falling, top bosses have just awarded themselves a whopping 55% extra income? I’ve heard of greed, but this is ridiculous. The average income of the top 100 companies’ chief executives [...]
