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A group of Birmingham women have stepped in to provide NHS workers with essential scrubs, as the government continues to fall short of delivering vital PPE to frontline staff. Despite being hit financially and socially by the coronavirus crisis, a team of women from across the city have joined forces to help coordinate the production and distribution of scrubs.
As the government responds to short term financial fears of millions of UK workers due to the coronavirus crisis, self-employed freelancers react with shock as they feel ignored by the government’s suggestion to ‘sign on’. While worried about paying the bills, or keeping a roof over their heads, the government has responded with a minimum living wage…
Members of Unison and UCU unions at the University of Birmingham join student workers to take strike action against what they claim are unfair wages, a lack of pay rise in ten years and poor working conditions; in comparison to reportedly extravagant salaries being paid to senior management staff and The university’s Vice Chancellor David…