Union approaches Amazon for talks after wave of protest action across the country GMB has submitted a formal pay claim to the company, asking for a real terms rise. In the letters submitted on behalf of members across the country, GMB is asking for talks on pay - facilitated by the government arbitration service ACAS.
Unions have planned strikes for various dates. Saturday 13 August Thursday 18 August Saturday 20 August The 13 August strike is organised by Aslef and includes train drivers at nine rail companies.
Royal Mail Staff will strike over a four day period and walkouts will take place. The union said management response with a 2% pay rise, which it claims would lead to a dramatic reduction in worker living standards due to soaring inflation.
For one week from Saturday 13 to Saturday 20 August, DHL workers based in Scotland will go on strike in a move that their union, Unite, says will impact supplies to Sainsbury's stores across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Unite said the strike was to protest the fact that DHL were offering lower wages to workers based in Scotland, unlike in other parts of the UK..
The First Minister has sought an emergency meeting of the Prime Minister and Heads of devolved Government Council to agree steps to help people in need as a result of the cost of living crisis. In a letter to the Prime Minister urging the suggested September meeting be brought forward due to a "fast deteriorating" situation the First Minister made her view clear that “many people across the UK simply cannot afford to wait until September for further action to be taken”.
On Friday 19 and Saturday 20 August more than 1,600 London bus workers in west London will stage strike action in protest of the pay offer they have received. The first day of the strike action will coincide with the strikes planned for the London Underground and Overground, bringing public transport to a grinding halt in the capital that Friday..
Pass rates for National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers have increased to near record levels for any exam year since current qualifications were introduced. The overall percentage of A grades is also higher than 2019, when exams were last held, and the number of skills-based qualifications, awards and certificates has increased to a near record 64,240.
Over 1,900 workers at the UK's largest container port in Felixstowe will stage strike action over pay for eight days from Sunday 21 to Monday 29 August. The strike, which is being organised by Unite, is expected to cause huge disruption to the supply of goods including packaged food, electronics and clothing across the UK..
The Communications Workers Union has is preparing to ballot members across the Capita O2 and Tesco Mobile partnerships due to a "derisory" 4 per cent pay offer. The union is also into apay dispute with Capital TVL over pay for TV licensing workers..
The number of 18-year-olds from the most deprived areas being offered a place at university is at a record high - up 32% since 2019, the last year there were exams. The latest UCAS data also shows 29,630 Scottish domiciled students have been offered a place at a Scottish university on SQA results day - up 6% compared to 2019 and the second highest on record.
New guidance will help make sure takeaway food businesses play their part in cleaning up high streets. New guidance will help make sure takeaway food businesses play their part in cleaning up high streets, the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has set out.
A 10-week public consultation on the proposed merger of UHI North Highland, UHI Outer Hebrides and UHI West Highland has been launched today. This exciting new strategic partnership would create an anchor institution of scale and impact within UHI, and the region, supporting 9000 students and 600 staff in 19 rural and island campus locations across the north of Scotland.
Nominations are being invited from people seeking election to 15 Highland community councils covering areas in Caithness Sutherland, Easter Ross, Wester Ross, Isle of Raasay, the Black Isle, Inverness, Nairnshire, Badenoch and Strathspey and Lochaber. Community Councils are voluntary organisations that express the views and concerns of local people within their area across a wide range of issues from new buildings and roads to local services and facilities.
8 August 2022 by Tejvan Pettinger When I started teaching economics in the early 2000s, I remember quite a few commentators predicting imminent house price falls because house prices were overvalued by historical trends, I used to occasional dip into house price crash forums to see a debate about when prices would fall. Yet, since 2000, even accounting for the financial crash, UK and US house prices have witnessed a remarkable, above-inflation rise.
NHS dental practices unable to offer appointments to new adult patients, in the most extensive survey of patient access ever undertaken. The British Dental Association has pressed government to step up and deliver urgent reform, as new research from the BBC underlines the scale of the access crisis facing NHS patients across the country.
5 August 2022 The percentage of people testing positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) continued to decrease in England, Wales, and Scotland in the latest week (ending 26 July 2022). In Northern Ireland, the trend remained uncertain in the latest week.
With online sales falling to their lowest level since March 2020, Shopify and Amazon have shed staff in a reset to the pre-Covid era. ParcelHero asks if e-commerce is the victim of its own rapid growth?.
James Black has written this item for the Fraserof Allander Institue and it appeared in the Herald on 5th August 2022. James is a Fellow at the Fraser of Allander Institute.
Soaring prices have forced central banks in many developed countries to raise their interest rates in recent weeks. These organisations are in charge of attempts to rein in rising costs that are threatening to wreak havoc on household budgets in coming months.
HI-Scot Credit Union is the first choice for savings and borrowing in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Unlike the High Street banks the focus of HI-Scot Credit Union is on service to members rather than shareholder profit.
