O Discontent News Today

hello there. we start with the cost of living crisis — because the uk is facing a summer of discontent over pay, according to the head of the biggest private sector union. sharon graham, who runs the unite union, has told the bbc its not "militant" to ask for pay rises in line with inflation, currently running at over 9%. she says tens of thousands of her members, from bus drivers to refuse collectors to factory workers, are involved in pay disputes around the country. this warning c...

Defended the pandemic, because it was key workers and ordinary people that did that, now it is over, we want you to pay for it. now that is actually abhorent to me. the idea that we set out you go, you defend what is going on out there and by the way, now you are back and everyone knows it is ok to come back again, were going to slash your pay. in the main the companies we are talking about are taking us to the wire and making profits and those bodies need to make sure workers get a piece of the...