YP Comment: How not to run a train service. Shame of ‘Southern Fail’ chaos
FED-UP COMMUTERS losing their jobs because of late trains; travel plans for day-trippers ruined; cancer patients missing hospital appointments. This is the human price of an unnecessary strike at...
View ArticleJobless rate at ten year low as unemployment falls to 1.62 million
The UK’s unemployment rate has fallen to a 10-year low of 4.8% following another drop in the numbers out of work.
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MORE Than 250 visitors to a jobs fair at the White Rose shopping centre in Leeds went on to secure employment.
View ArticleJohn O’Connell: Local tax powers key to fixing social care
A SIX per cent council tax rise will put unimaginable pressure on already struggling families without providing any real solution to the the social care crisis.
View ArticleYP Letters: We all have a part to play in tackling scourge of loneliness
From: Mike Adamson, chief executive, British Red Cross.
View ArticleYP Letters: Unions will target our trains to keep their jobs following...
From: Andrew Suter, Station Road, Ampleforth, York.
View ArticleYP Letters: Curb waste and look after the elderly
From: Barry Foster, High Stakesby, Whitby.
View ArticleChris Moncrieff: Ministers can’t stand idly by over strikes
IS there a dastardly conspiracy emerging designed to rob thousands of people of joy at Christmas and replace it with misery and frustration?
View ArticleBernard Ingham: Time to end unions’ cynical power game
THE British trade union movement has come full circle. It was established to improve the condition of working people and to prevent them from exploitation. Now it just exploits them, even threatening...
View ArticleLeeds staff out in the cold as American Apparel pulls down shutters
Nearly 150 staff at American Apparel, including seven at its store in Leeds, are facing a nightmare before Christmas after the US fashion chain’s administrators pulled down the shutters on 12 UK branches.
View ArticleYP Letters: Fighting those who want power without responsibility
From: Tom Howley, Wetherby.
View ArticleVIDEO: Croupier training for new jobs at £3m revamped Grosvenor Casino Leeds...
Play your cards right and you could soon have a licence to thrill with croupier training underway to fill new jobs after a £3m revamp at Grosvenor Casino Leeds Westgate.
View ArticleYP Comment: Care of elderly: Who foots bill? PM must accept consensus offer
JUST AS night follows day, local authorities – Bradford being the latest – will take advantage of the Government’s relaxed rules on council tax increases in order to sustain, where possible, the...
View ArticleBad taste as Jamie Oliver closes six restaurants - 120 staff hit
Jamie Oliver is to close six Jamie’s Italian restaurants as the celebrity chef is hit by a combination of rising Brexit cost pressures and tough trading.
View ArticleTube worker strike causes commute chaos
Commuters in the capital face chaos today as London Underground workers stage 24 hour strike action - causing travel chaos for millions of passengers.
View ArticleHuge rise in job vacancies in Hull
It's already the Capital of Culture - and now Hull has been named as a mecca for jobseekers too.
View ArticleJobs to go as five more Yorkshire Post Offices put on hit list
The Post Office and the Government have been accused of “stunning arrogance” after news that a further 37 flagship Crown offices are to close, with the loss of 300 staff.
View ArticleUk strikes and why we aren’t seeing a repeat of the ‘Winter of discontent’
The recent spate of strikes has raised fears that we are seeing a return to the bad old days of widespread industrial unrest. But is this really the case? Chris Bond reports.
View ArticleBill Carmichael: Labour’s sinking feeling under Jeremy Corbyn
FACED with disastrously bad polling figures, Jeremy Corbyn’s advisers let it be known there would be a major “relaunch” of the Labour leader this week – and the details trailed in advance were...
View ArticleWomen still face lazy gender stereotyping at work, warns Fawcett Society
FEMALE entrepreneurs are still facing lazy gender stereotyping and other cultural barriers, according to Sam Smethers, the chief executive of the Fawcett Society, the charity which campaigns for gender...
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