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offsite link Trump Unveils Plan to Take Over Gaza, Move the Palestinians and Turn it into the ?Riviera of the Mid... Wed Feb 05, 2025 11:11 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump has outlined an extraordinary new plan for Gaza in which the US will take over the strip and turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East" while the Palestinian population is moved elsewhere.
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offsite link Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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Why cleaners are more valuable to society than bankers

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | opinion/analysis author Monday June 27, 2011 16:43author by SIPTUPR Report this post to the editors

Renowned UK based Academic Eilis Lawlor explains why Cleaners are more valuable to society than Bankers!

Eilis Lawlor is a UK based Academic, Director of Just Economics LLP and author of "A Bit Rich". She is former head of the Valuing What Matters programme at the New Economics Foundation. She was invited to give a Seminar on the theme of "Why cleaners are more valuable to society than bankers" to mark the launch of SIPTU's Responsible Contractor Initiative. She also took the opportunity to warn of the dangers to low paid workers from Irish Government proposals to dismantle Employment Regulation Orders.

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