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...money she could start a new life.” (Letitia McGowan, UNISON steward, 2021) Post-strike job evaluation (JE) Trade unions and the employer endorsed an appropriate JE scheme, and a joint JE team, consisting of GCC staff, trade union representatives from Unison, Unite and GMB, was established in June 2019. Extensive training was undertaken by the team and the aim was to...

...money, knowledge and information, it can be helpful to think about how contemporary cities are permeated by all kinds of different relationships and connections with places elsewhere. And yet, the remaking of cities in the name of economic growth is far from politically uncontested. One area where this has become acutely contentious is housing. Transformed over recent...

...business and the military/industrial complex. The demographic sands are shifting fast. By the middle of this century Spanish will be the first language of a majority of Americans. If only 36.4% vote, is the US still a democracy? It all too often escapes attention that, in the 2014 congressional elections, only 36.4% of Americans entitled to vote actually did so. 63% of...

...money he owes and to whom; or that he pays no federal income tax at all. Whatever the reason, she suggested, “It must be something really important, even terrible he’s trying to hide.” Trump was stumped. At one point, he even interjected to apparently acknowledge that indeed he didn’t pay federal taxes and that that made him “smart”. He tried to pivot to the...