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📢 Preston City Council has launched a grant scheme to help local SMEs cover the fee for Living Wage Foundation accreditation. If you're a Preston-based SME, check your eligibility and apply here:
🔗 www.preston.gov.uk/article/1110...
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💼Job opportunity at Cardiff Business School

Research Associate - Nuffield Foundation Research Project

📅Deadline for applications: Wednesday 10 September

More information on the project👇
nuffieldfoundation.org/project/musc...

Apply here👇
jobs.ac.uk/job/DOH575/r...
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edpenarth.bsky.social
Just published as an open access paper by IRJ. An overview of political devolution in the UK and its effects on industrial relations
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Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Aug 18
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Devolution and Industrial Relations: An Overview
This article presents an overview of how industrial relations have been shaped by constitutional devolution across the United Kingdom. It shows that the devolved national governments in Scotland, Wal...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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by Edmund Heery

edpenarth.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Devolution and Industrial Relations: An Overview
This article presents an overview of how industrial relations have been shaped by constitutional devolution across the United Kingdom. It shows that the devolved national governments in Scotland, Wal...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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livingwagescotland.bsky.social
Work with us!
We're on the lookout for a Living Wage Projects Officer who brings experience in employer or business engagement, excels in communication and persuasion, and thrives in collaborative environments.
Find out more here: shorturl.at/oZUE6
#LivingWage #Scotland #Glasgow
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Reposted by Edmund Heery, Julian Dobson, Paul Sheehan

torstenbell.bsky.social
Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵
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wcmforrest.bsky.social
Once again, we’re having to fight to stop music being the first thing an organisation cuts when it has money problems. Please sign this petition - many people have benefitted from the work of Cardiff University’s School of Music, and not just those who have taught and studied there (incl. me).
Sign the Petition
SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC
www.change.org
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tonydundon.bsky.social
Very sad. Great loss to labour and sociology www.ktvu.com/news/uc-berk...
UC Berkeley professor emeritus killed in Oakland hit-and-run crash
A UC Berkeley professor emeritus was killed in a deadly hit-and-run crash in Oakland on Monday.
www.ktvu.com
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Welcome new followers. My book, Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain, is out February next year. Here are the book's epigraphs, one by the great Liverpool historian Tony Lane, another by the wonderful contemporary poet @joriegraham.bsky.social. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
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www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Major UK investors join push for retail giants to pay workers ‘real living wage’
Axa and Scottish Widows back ShareAction campaign for chains such as Next to pay at least £12.60 an hour
www.theguardian.com

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samfr.bsky.social
In all the tariff excitement I forgot my paperback is out today.

It's an Economist and FT Book of the year!

Buy it before a global depression means we all have to use books to fuel rudimentary fires!

www.amazon.co.uk/Failed-State...
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I have a new article out in Ecological Economics (open access):
“Keynes as a post-growth economist” - on Keynes's long-run vision of the economy, its lessons for modern economics debates and the limits of "Green Keynesianism"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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by Edmund Heery

edpenarth.bsky.social
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Sign the Petition
Halt the Installation of the Aqua Park at Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, Penarth
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In Britain, the fast-rising minimum wage is catching up with the bottom rungs of white-collar work. In fact, it appears that a rising number of people who earn annual salaries & don't work in low-paid sectors are now being paid below the legal minimum... www.ft.com/content/5f69...
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Cardiff University strikes called off as job cuts paused
Cardiff University strikes called off as job cuts paused
The union warned of a "summer of chaos" if the university did not back down on its proposed cuts.
www.bbc.com
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by Edmund Heery

edpenarth.bsky.social
Latest contribution to Welsh economic history by my brilliant colleague, Leon Gooberman. Published by University of Wales Press
www.uwp.co.uk/book/waging-...
Waging War and Building Peace | UWP
www.uwp.co.uk
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nation.cymru
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Barry today in support of Welsh independence
Thousand join latest march for independence in Barry
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Barry on Saturday in support of Welsh independence. South Wales Police estimated that over six thousand people followed the circular route from the t...
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UK universities should be advising students and staff travelling to the US on social media use, what border staff are entitled to seize or search, what to do if detained, and how to keep US colleagues safe, says @petraboynton.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
A safety manual for academics visiting America - Research Professional News
Petra Boynton looks at what advice UK universities should give US-bound researchers and students
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
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Just 850 more signatures will bring us to 100,000 and trigger a debate in parliament. Plz share widely - I’m holding my breath! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
petition.parliament.uk
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livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social
“ITUC welcomes new ILO living wage programme

In a step towards ending the global scandal of poverty pay, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a new programme that puts the principle of a living wage at the heart of its support to countries.”

#LivingWage
ITUC welcomes new ILO living wage programme
In a step towards ending the global scandal of poverty pay, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a new programme that puts the principle of a living wage at the heart of its suppor...
www.ituc-csi.org
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timeshighered.bsky.social
Union members at Cardiff University have announced plans for a marking and assessment boycott on top of strike action in response to hundreds of academic jobs being axed. @julietterowsell.bsky.social reports
#AcademicSky
Cardiff union goes ‘nuclear’ with marking boycott plus strikes
University and College Union disputes institution’s claim to have significant cut job cuts figure
www.timeshighereducation.com
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Miguel Martinez Lucio (@workequalities.bsky.social) and I have a new edited text out this month on how workplace representation in the UK has changed in recent years. Please order for your libraries bookstore.emerald.com/focusing-or-...
The book cover image of Focusing or Fragmenting Representation at Work? Specialist Trade Union Representation in the United Kingdom. The book is edited by Andy Hodder and Miguel Martínez Lucio, published by Emerald and out this month.
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New paper in HRMJ: Unions help make remote work more fair - based on research in the US, Canada, and Germany: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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markingall.bsky.social
'Elbows Up, Britain': US products to boycott: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald’s, Burger King, Nike, Converse, Levi’s; and tech giants like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Netflix – some of which are harder to avoid than others.

bylinetimes.com/2025/04/02/e...
'Elbows Up, Britain': Canada's Boycott of American Goods Spreads to the UK
How British voters could hold the cards when it comes to resisting President Trump's global trade war
bylinetimes.com
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by Edmund Heery

edpenarth.bsky.social
This is really good if anyone fancies reading it
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Apr 3
In all the tariff excitement I forgot my paperback is out today.

It's an Economist and FT Book of the year!

Buy it before a global depression means we all have to use books to fuel rudimentary fires!

www.amazon.co.uk/Failed-State...
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For anyone wanting to know more about ShareAction, there is an account of its campaign to spread the #LivingWage in our book, The Real Living Wage: Civil Regulation and the Employment Relationship (Oxford University Press).
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Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Mar 27
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Major UK investors join push for retail giants to pay workers ‘real living wage’
Axa and Scottish Widows back ShareAction campaign for chains such as Next to pay at least £12.60 an hour
www.theguardian.com
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by Edmund Heery

edpenarth.bsky.social
Duncan - here it is. Not sure what I did wrong first time
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Don’t visit the US – it just isn’t worth the risks right now | Arwa Mahdawi
Minor visa infractions have seen tourists detained, shackled and deported by overzealous US border staff. There are many more welcoming places to go on holiday, writes Arwa Mahdawi
www.theguardian.com
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by Edmund Heery

edpenarth.bsky.social
Duncan - it was meant to be a repost of an article in The Guardian summarising recent cases of visitors being detained. I’ve no plans to go while Trump is in power though I’ve been a frequent academic visitor in the past
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