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Private equity operators like AA have moved into home care and their aim is to make money with the inevitable consequences that profits comes before people

This mushrooming of part-time jobs is at the expense of full-time employment and is characterised by low pay, insecurity and bad conditions GMB Equality Conference in Coventry told today

GMB is asking the government’s enforcement body EASI to conduct an investigation into the alleged strike breaking as breaches of the regulations result in fines of £5,000 per worker per day supplied to do the work of the strikers

As driving costs increase cuts in allowances to staff who use their own cars to maintain a service that is essential to the residents of Cheshire West and Chester is unfair says GMB

Freezing pay for young workers, many of whom work in the profitable retails sector, is a further kick in the teeth from the government that increased tuition fees to £9,000 says GMB

The budget next week is an opportunity for Mr Osborne to stop digging and it must not be missed say GMB

It is likely that the current dry period will be followed by the sort of heavy rainfall which devastated the Thames flood plains in 2003 and 2007 and if this plan is implemented response times to 'out of hours incidents' will go from the current 10-15 minutes to 2 hours leading to serious flooding of homes