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Sir Bob: poverty progress is an "utter disgrace"
Sir Bob challenges G8 ministers

Sir Bob Geldof today told world leaders not to come to the G8 summit in July unless they were prepared to deliver pledges on tackling poverty. Speaking at a conference on poverty in the Scottish Parliament, the musician and Commission for Africa member was critical of the West’s failure to tackle poverty in Africa and… Read more »

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Soft-touch on redundancies

Amicus has claimed that British workers are more vulnerable to redundancies than their European counterparts as multinational companies see the UK as a “soft touch”. A survey for the union found that 57 out of 69 cases of company restructuring in the UK involved the loss of more than 100 jobs, the highest rate in… Read more »