Over £760,000 Raised in One Afternoon!
This year’s Lunch with an Old Bag charity event on 6 September raised an astounding £760,000 to help change the lives of more than 760 young people supported by The Prince’s Trust Scotland. Continue reading Old Bags show they ‘can-can’ help Scotland’s young people!
Legislation to establish Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme has been brought forward for public comment. Continue reading Deposit Return Scheme takes shape
Cyrenians has partnered with award-winning actor, writer and producer Jamie Robson at Little Wing Film Festival to explore representation and empathy around social issues in film. Continue reading Cyrenians partner with Jamie Robson to raise social issues on the big screen
TUC conference yesterday unanimously passed a motion to support the school student Global Climate Strike on 20th September and has called on TUC affiliate Unions to organise a 30 minute work day campaign action to coincide with the school students strike on 20th September. Continue reading TUC backs Global Climate Strike on 20th September
A group of 23 nurses and their partners have been reunited by the City of Edinburgh Council, 60 years after they met as students at the Western General Hospital.
Continue reading Western General nurses reunited after sixty years
SGN Network Upgrade – Possible Disruption Queensferry Road
SGN: Our work will start on Monday 16 September and last for approximately 13 weeks. 8am-4pm for traffic contra-flows.
Close the following roads to ensure everyone’s safety:
Orchard Road and Orchard Road South junction with Queensferry Road
Belford Avenue junction with Queensferry Terrace
Queensferry Terrace junction with Queensferry Road
Parking suspensions:
Full width of Queensferry Road between Queensferry Terrace and Orchard Road
Signed local diversion routes will be in place for motorists, commuters and access for local residents and businesses will be maintained where possible. We’ll also need to use temporary traffic lights during various stages of the project. These will be manually controlled during peak times to minimise disruption as much as possible.
Phases of this project have been planned to coincide with the autumn school holidays, and when traffic is likely to be quieter, ensuring disruption is kept to a minimum.
We’ll be working Monday to Friday between 8am – 4pm, and at weekends where required. We know that this is a busy area and wish to assure you that work will progress as quickly as possible and we’ll be doing everything we can to limit delays and disruption.
We will post regular updates on our website https://www.sgn.co.uk/our-gas-works/roadworks-your-area and using social media and traffic bulletins to keep everyone informed.
Please feel free to share this information with your stakeholders, colleagues and anyone else who may be impacted by our work. All local residents have been notified.
If you have any specific enquiries about this project, please call us on 0131 469 1728 during office hours (8am to 4.00pm) or 0800 912 1700 and our customer service team will be happy to help.
SGN used to be known as Scotland Gas Networks and Southern Gas Networks, but following a rebrand in 2014 is now just SGN.
Applications open for Scottish Book Trust’s What’s Your Story? programme
Scottish Book Trust, the national charity transforming lives through reading and writing, has announced that applications are now open for their What’s Your Story? programme.
Now in its fifth year, the scheme has so far assisted around 30 young people from across Scotland to develop writing, illustration and performance projects. Continue reading Search begins for young teen writers and illustrators
Four hundred women gathered for Scottish Women Stand, a day to encourage participation in democracy, at the Scottish Parliament on Saturday. Continue reading Scotland’s Women Stand at Holyrood
Sometime between Saturday 31st August and Sunday 1st September 2019, a set production and prop company based in Lochside Road, Limerigg, near Falkirk was broken into and amongst other things, a large selection of replica police clothing and equipment was stolen. Continue reading Theft of Replica Police Clothing
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The TUC has called for new legal measures to tackle class discrimination in the workplace.
The call comes as a new TUC report reveals that graduates from wealthier backgrounds are more than twice as likely to be on a £30,000 starting salary than those from working-class backgrounds.
The TUC wants the government to:
The TUC says that without new anti-discrimination laws people from working-class backgrounds will continue to face unfair barriers at work and in society.
These include direct forms of discrimination, such as employer bias during job applications and interviews. And there are indirect forms of discrimination, such as the use of unpaid internships as a gateway into jobs.
As well as class discrimination, the report looks at other forms of disadvantage experienced by working-class people, such as low pay and the greater impact of austerity on working-class households.
The TUC says that stronger workplace rights are needed to counter the class privilege that remains in Britain today. Every worker must have the freedom to meet with a union at their workplace. And there must be stronger rights for workers to speak up on pay and conditions through trade unions.
TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said: “If you’re from a working-class family, the odds are still stacked against you.
“Everyone knows that getting that dream job is too often a case of who you know, not what you know.
“I want to issue a challenge to politicians. It’s high time we banned discrimination against working class people.
“This country is wasting some of our best skills and the talent. And if we don’t get change fast, it’s not just workers who will lose out – Britain will.
“Let’s have a new duty on employers to stamp out class prejudice once and for all.”
