#capitalismfails — Public Fediverse posts
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End #zero-hours contracts: protect #workers from #exploitation
Insecure #work rampant. Millions are unsure how much they’ll earn from week to week
They struggle to plan their lives, look after their children, or budget for future
Govt's manifesto committed to banning zero-hours contracts by providing #WorkersRights to guaranteed hours, other protections
- #Employers are seeking to undermine the pledge
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Blackpool – Kicking the Poorest People into the Gutter
Improving the lives of people "entrenched in poverty" would be praiseworthy if this project did that but gentrification removes poverty from an area by forceable displacement of the current poverty stricken residents. The council fails to clarify how the lives of the evicted are being improved. Hundreds of families in one of England’s poorest neighbourhoods will be evicted under a £90m plan described by critics as a “mass dispersion” of vulnerable people. 400 homes in Blackpool will […]https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/blackpool-kicking-the-poorest-people-into-the-gutter/