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Combining efforts: 200 years of trade union history - exhibition until 31/01/26 | The Freelance
Online only A SMALL exhibition on trade union history at the London School of Economics (LSE) library is worth a visit. Certainly, if you're in Holborn anyway then it's worth having a gander. The main good thing for me is the actual manuscript of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell's socialist critique of working-class life in a small town in England.
Illness related job loss: Effective action at last?
A government commissioned review could herald important and positive changes to the way in which workers with health-related work limitations are supported by employers. As a result they could help reduce the unacceptable scale of job loss experienced by ill and disabled workers. At the same time, these outcomes are far from assured and are unlikely to occur without the active lobbying on the part of the union movement.
Deadly oversight: the corporate manslaughter law failed by design
In our campaign for strengthening the laws around deaths at work we demanded bosses found guilty of negligence in the case of a worker death should automatically face a prison sentence. The TUC and union-backed initiative, driven by the Hazards Campaign and the now defunct Centre for Corporate Accountability, had argued that a law should see negligent bosses jailed. They were getting away with murder, when they should be imprisoned.
That was the COP that was | The Freelance
Online only COP26: the 26th "Conference of the Parties" - of the states that have signed the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Image © Open Government Licence THE COP26 climate conference concluded around 8pm yesterday - Saturday 13 November, over 24 hours over time - with a last-minute compromise. The event in Glasgow, Scotland was billed as a last chance for the United Nations climate process to have a useful effect on global heating.
pandemic | mental wellbeing
A forgotten disciple of Voltaire once said that reason and emotion are not antagonists. Luc de Clapiers, a French marquis, who published anonymously and died young, said: “Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.” I think the same can be said for business, especially in times of internal crisis or societal disturbance.
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