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Swansea Parcelforce workers took action earlier this year over coronavirus fears (Pic: CWU Southwest Wales Ama) Postal workers’ demands for safety were ignored at a major Royal Mail workplace where more than 20 people have caught coronavirus. At least 22 people at the Cardiff delivery office and mail centre have tested …

Swansea Parcelforce workers left their depot in April over safety fears (Pic: CWU Southwest Wales Amal) Royal Mail workers are in revolt over a management decision to bring back shared delivery vans. The CWU union described the move as “reckless”. Speaking to around 20,000 CWU members on a Facebook session, …

Here is the latest update of the rolling seven-day rate of new cases ofCovid-19, showing the top five local authorities. Nottingham now has thehighest rate in England, with 2,294 new cases recorded in the seven days toOctober 5 – the equivalent of 689.1 cases per 100,000 people. Source link

Lecturers won their strike in 2017 (Pic: Duncan Brown) Scottish FE lecturers in the EIS-FELA union are going into dispute over attempts by management to replace teaching with training. This will force lecturers on to instructor and assessor contracts. At Forth Valley College staff were selected at random and told …

People Before Profit NHS campaign Labour MPs, trade unionists, campaigners and socialists have joined forces to call for a “fightback across workplaces and communities to demand ordinary people won’t pay for the crisis”. The People Before Profit group will launch its emergency programme for jobs, services and safety on Tuesday. …

4.18pm BST16:18 Nicola Davis Coronavirus cases in England almost doubled in the space of a week, with infections becoming more widespread across all ages, leading one expert to say a second wave had begun. Almost 60,000 people are thought to have had the virus from 4 to 10 September 2020 …

The number of people claiming unemployment benefits in the South West has hit 189,842 – a 151% increase on the same period last year. The figures, released by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), show that 33,454 of those claimants are aged between 18 and 24, which is up …

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In a video conference call with Conservative MPs last week, Home Secretary Priti Patel was alleged to have said: “France is a racist country. They would rather come to England.” French politicians called the claims “hateful”, according to the Mail on Sunday, but sources close to Ms Patel sought to …

Scotland records 48 new cases Scotland has recorded 48 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, as the number of positive tests nears 19,000. It comes after 60 new cases were confirmed on Saturday, however there was no change in the number of people in intensive care (three) or …