Unemployment Not Just Hitting Employees

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

2½ million unemployed across the UK is maybe too big for many of us to get our heads round, so let’s zoom in closer. I read this morning about unemployment in Barking, east London.
3.6% in August 2008 to 5.8% in August 2009 might not seem a lot at first glance yet it represents an increase [...]

Redundancy is NOT a stigma!

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

We’ve seen in the past that a whole mine, factory, mill or steel works that closed was an acceptable reason for being suddenly jobless: Employees and all their mates were in the same boat.
If it was only a small part of the workforce that was ‘let go’, redundancy often had such a stigma attached to [...]

A heart warming story of vision and determination

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

These guys and girls didn’t wait for help or opportunity to come knocking: They went out and made it happen…
March 5th 2009: The 12 staff at a packaging and design company are told by letter that their contracts had ended with the firm as of 1700 GMT on Wednesday. And that wages from 1 March, [...]