Archive for March, 2016
|Hospital cleaners stage one-day strike for London living wage
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
Cleaners and domestic staff are employed by Aramark at four mental health facilities in south London
Nearly 200 London hospital service workers will go out on strike on Monday, in a dispute which its organisers say highlights the increasingly difficult predicament of low-paid people in the capital, and problems particularly faced by women and migrant workers.
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Hospital cleaners’ strike: ‘If doctors can do it, why can’t we?’ – video
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
Outsourced service and cleaning workers at four London hospitals, including the Maudsley mental health hospital, are staging a 24-hour strike in pursuit of a living wage. 90% are women, many are migrant workers, and just about all of them have never been on strike before. In a taster of the new Anywhere but Westminster series about the cutting edge of 2016’s politics, the Guardian’s John Harris follows their fight
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In a new era of official nastiness, it’s suddenly a crime to be homeless | John Harris
Friday, March 11th, 2016
Instead of addressing the causes of homelessness, local authorities are using public space protection orders to displace, fine and punish the vulnerable
A week ago, a case involving a homeless man called Ashley Hackett was thrown out of court in Brighton. He had been arrested by a plain-clothes police officer for asking a passer-by for 10p, an episode that triggered reports about Sussex police arresting 60 people on similar grounds in 2015 alone.
Related: A night on the streets: Britain’s homeless crisis – live
Related: Homelessness crisis: ministers consider ‘prevention duty’ for councils
Related: ‘I am well-spoken and not an addict’: how homelessness can happen to anyone | Sarah Marsh
Fines and arrest back up the rightwing idea of character failure; George Osborne sleeps that bit more easily
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