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#workers

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Today's the day that women, having earned less than men over their working life (effectively) stop receiving their pension (in aggregated terms) compared to men's full year of pension, due to a persistant gender wage gap.

Its extraordinary that in 2025 we're still having to make the case for equal pay, still see all sorts of excuse for why women are paid less, and actions to address the issue are regarded by many economists as economically 'illiterate'.

#workers #women
theguardian.com/world/2025/aug

The Guardian · Gender pension gap equates to £7,600 a year, say union leadersVon Phillip Inman
Emeritus Prof Christopher May

As EU inflation & UK inflation continue to diverge, now reaching a 2% point difference (making EU inflation half that of the UK), economists are (again) blaming wage inflation, even as transport & import costs are directly cited by the ONS as the *actual* causes.

The direct wage-inflation link is yet one more Zombie idea from economics that reigns in commentary from financial services (home I might add of the likely largest group fo over paid parasites in the UK).

#workers #inflation
h/t FT

Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Last month inflation ticked upwards to 3.8% while private rental inflation dropped a little but remained 5.9%.

So, no wonder people are holding out for higher wages - doing nothing means each month (for renters) your real disposable income will be declining, as you wait for a likely rent hike whenever your rental review is.

But, the BoE still will be playing the 'greedy worker' record at some point when Andrew Bailey talks about continuing inflationary pressures!

#inflation #workers
h/t FT

Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Many workers are at the sharp end of the impact of climate change, based both on location & occupation.... they are, as Denise Brennan suggest, 'climate canaries'; warning us what climate change will do to the workplace (as part of its overall impact on our lives).

But as so often the plight of workers is hidden (obscured) by the mythical notion that they have choice over where & how they work - for the most vulnerable this is just not the case!

#workers #climate
opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Fr many women the workplace remains a (sometimes) hostile environment. As the Women's Budget Group points out:

'Too many women suffer in silence. Whether they’re dealing with poor mental health, painful periods, or trying to balance their career with motherhood, workplace support is essential... [and] the most effective first step is to ask female employees what changes would help them most'!

Women's health should not be just ignored.

#health #workers #gender

wbg.org.uk/article/the-solutio

Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Although as we've discussed here before, pay ratios limiting CEO pay might be easily gamed, but most interestingly both the Green Party England & wales and the Scottish Greens have come out supporting pay ratios as a way of making pay fairer.

This looks like a really clear move by both main Green Parties to continue to develop their explicit appeal to disaffected Labour supporters (which is not to say this is the first of their Left policies).

#politics#GreenParty#workers
Emeritus Prof Christopher May

The gender pay gap has often been linked to the impact of a motherhood penalty (pay limited by career gaps to have/bring up children).

Given that five years after graduation male median salary is already 14% above female pay (a gap currently of around £4k), the gap emerges before a motherhood penalty is likely to kick-in.

This may be partly due female graduates more likely to work in low(er) pay sectors, but equally male graduates' jobs look more threatened by AI!

#gender #workers #AI
h/t FT

Emeritus Prof Christopher May

I agree with Scottish Green MSP Ross Greer (and not just for Scotland)' teaching young people about both the history & practices of trade unions, to encourage young workers to familiarise themselves with unions, while also countering the negative publicity offered on unions by many media outlets is a good idea!

(this needs to be introduced with sensitivity to the pressure schools are under from external curriculum demands, but its a worthwhile proposal)

#education#unions#workers
Adam Beer

The Air Canada strike situation is an unmitigated disgrace.

First of all, getting no pay for mandatory work while the plane is on the ground is fucking insane, and it apparently being industry standard practice (which I had no idea of before today) makes it so much worse. Unions explicitly agreeing to it in the past doesn't make that any less true; I dearly hope those unions had damn good reasons at the time, because any union worth its salt would know that this is textbook wage theft, and sends the message that this type of labour is not valuable. A message that is, of course, a lie, because if it wasn't valuable it wouldn't be mandatory!

The other prong of this hellscape is that forcing people back to work should never be allowed, in any industry, in any context. Causing economic damage is precisely the purpose of strikes; that's what motivates the company to give the workers what they want. If the company is so big and central to the economy that a strike will significantly damage the entire economy, then that's not a reason to force people back to work; it's a reason to break up the company!

#airCanada#airCanadaStrike#airlines
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Air Canada suspends restart plans after union defies return to work order

from #NPR
August 17, 2025. 2:38 PM ET
By The #AssociatedPress #AP

The Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered airline staff back to work by 2 p.m. Sunday after the government intervened and Air Canada said it planned to resume flights Sunday evening.

#Canada's largest #airline now says it will resume flights Monday evening. #AirCanada said in a statement that the union "illegally directed its flight attendant members to defy a direction from the Canadian Industrial Relations Board."

"Our members are not going back to work," #CanadianUnionOfPublicEmployees national president Mark Hancock said outside Toronto's Pearson International Airport. "We are saying no."

npr.org/2025/08/17/nx-s1-55054

#WorkersFightBack
#SolidarityWithFlightAttendants
#news #press #workers #union #labor #strike #politics

Japan

Foreign workers in Japan more than quadruple in labor-starved areas

Japan immigration Farming, fishing and construction increasingly rely on immigrant employment The number of immigrant workers in Japan’s health care and welfare services has grown eightfold over a decade. (Photo by Akitoshi Sugiur…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #areas #Foreign #JapanTopics #labor-starved #more #news #quadruple #workers
alojapan.com/1347715/foreign-w

Alo Japan

alojapan.com/1347715/foreign-w Foreign workers in Japan more than quadruple in labor-starved areas #areas #Foreign #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #LaborStarved #more #news #quadruple #workers Japan immigration Farming, fishing and construction increasingly rely on immigrant employment The number of immigrant workers in Japan’s health care and welfare services has grown eightfold over a decade. (Photo by Akitoshi Sugiura) HATSUKI SATO August 15, 2025 01:17 JST TOKYO — The n

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