Ruth Hannan

Contact your council: Ban the bailiffs! With local elections happening in hundreds of councils across the country this spring it’s time we told our local councillors that we want to see action on council tax debt and an end to bailiff use.

We've got a new campaign out today ahead of the local elections: act.debtjustice.org.uk/contact-your...

Denmark are bringing back their #WealthTax - Do you think the UK should follow suit??
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File on 4 Investigates - Bogus self-employment - who pays the price? - BBC Sounds Why is the rise in bogus self-employment a problem for all of us?

🤑 Bogus self-employment costs the UK about £8.5bn every year, I told the BBC.

✍️ This includes Uber, Deliveroo, Oxbridge colleges, construction firms + hair salons writing sham self-employment contracts for their staff.

⬇️ Listen to this excellent BBC Radio 4 show.

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This is a great write up of an underreported story.

(a) it's crazy that a minister responded "that's life" to a council in financial straits;

(b) it's crazier still that £3m of extra funding will apparently fund so little care because the system is entirely run in private interests.

Steve Reed, HCLG Minister allegedly said, “That’s life” in response to a discussion about Hartlepool’s request for additional funding to cover their children’s social care costs.
Read our latest blog by @ruthhannan.bsky.social on the big problem in care carefulleconomy.co.uk/2026/03/04/t...

This is a great idea, because until now Ai uptake has been limited only to the most discerning and well-informed.

Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds problem is ‘deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years’

Those below the poverty line are, increasingly, well below it

New @statspeter.bsky.social @katieschmuecker.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social study

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Let’s shut this whole fucking country down. Stop the ICE murders. Boycott USA is you are abroad. We don’t need a World Cup or a rock band’s tour, we need justice and serious fucking help.

Dude, it's January! We don't need anything else to make us depressed 😂

I know I bang this drum a lot, but the Covid Public Inquiry largely passed by with barely a ripple. We seem to be memory-holing the whole thing and it's warping diagnosis and debates.

Tinkering around the edges isn't going to fix the injustices at the heart of our tax system.

Our Director, Faiza Shaheen, giving the Government a reality check on BBC Politics Live this week.

Disabled people could face benefit cuts – even if they cannot work

Long-term claimants of employment and support allowance could be moved over to a new, time-limited disability benefit – equating to cuts.

Looks like Sheffield Uni have picked the absolutely perfect Chancellor if this is the way they treat staff.

3K billionaires control $18.3 trillion, and this concentration of wealth is reshaping democracy itself. Billionaire money changes who gets heard, who decides, and who gets left behind.
Read the evidence: www.oxfam.org/en/resisting... #RuleOfTheRich #FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich

Perspectives After pushing care to the margins for too long, we think it deserves a transformative relaunch. That’s why we’ve started Care Full, a space to think more expansively about care in a new…

To relaunch our blog we're sharing our thoughts on the New Zealand court ruling on family carers employment status and rights.
carefulleconomy.co.uk/perspectives/

This is a bad headline.
But I guess, ‘add 0.1% to total employment costs’ is less exciting.

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Thanks to @highpaycentre.bsky.social for showing how deep inequality runs. Is a CEO worth 1500 of the rest of us?

We've (naturally) run the numbers for unpaid carers too; Melrose's CEO package is over 13,600x what carers live on. Our priorities are upside down. Let’s change them.

Hopefully this will soon become #ReclaimTheEconomyMONTH and then Year and then #ReclaimTheEconomyFOREVER - how about it @earth4all.life?

I keep thinking about all the legitimate orga & people still posting on X whilst it produces CSA images. Why not commit fully and start popping your statements on PornHub.

HPC data shows the FTSE 100 CEO just over two days to earn the median UK worker’s full time annual salary. Average CEO pay is £4.4m — 113× the median worker’s salary of £39,039.

With long-term wage stagnation, how can this possibly be justified?

highpaycentre.org/fat-cat-day-...

📣 New York setting the tone for 2026, on day one. #TaxTheRich.

Bernie Sanders electrified the crowds at Zohran Mamdani's inauguration with a clear message: invest in our communities by making the super rich and corporations pay their fair share.

We're in.

A wonderful piece on grassroots, local focused women-led solidarity action in Liverpool. Very inspiring. Worth a read @hannahwebster.bsky.social especially the march with the bin workers.

The David & Goliath award is all about the little guys. It celebrates individuals or small campaign groups that take on much bigger organisations and challenge vested power. Nominate your favourite 2025 underdog campaign at https://smk.org.uk/what-we-do/connect/awards/

FOUR-DAY WEEK EDUCATION PILOT

FOUR-DAY WEEK COUNCILS PILOT PROGRAMME

We’re preparing for not one, but TWO major 4-day week trials this year.

If you work for a:

- School 📚
or
- Council 🏫

And you’re interested in taking part, fill out a form via the link below to get the conversation started.

Much of the Act's significance will now depend on secondary legislation, enforcement, and political will.

Without strong institutions and resources, legal rights risk remaining paper protections.

However, the Act also falls short of the full “New Deal for Working People” originally promised by Labour.

Proposals like a single ‘worker’ status and a statutory right to switch off were dropped 👇

After an uncertain 2025, the Employment Rights Bill has become law.

@liammullally.bsky.social takes a closer look at what’s actually in the legislation, and what it means for workers, unions and employers 👇

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Some good work news against the backdrop of a grim start to 2026: new article in Sociological Research Online by myself and Liam Foster on independent union organising of paid care workers @centreforcare.bsky.social @sagepub.com @socresonline.bsky.social

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For me, this interview sums up what's wrong with the modern Labour Party. Too quick to link extremist far right rhetoric with popular left wing positions. Too quick to say what they're against & not what they're for.
To dismiss wealth tax cos it won't solve ALL the problems is foolish.