Sandhya

reposting for anyone who is thinking about supply chains and can make it to Parliament on 8 July 3pm House of Lords Committee Room 1.

Budhpura 20 years on: Report Launch This is the launch of a report into working conditions down supply chains of Rajasthani pink sandstone.

Thrilled to be chairing this report launch and panel event at Parliament on 8 July 3-5pm on deaths from silicosis at the start of Rajasthani stone chains. What can be done to prevent this? Panel: Report author, the CEO of stone importer, and Indian NGO. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/budhpura-2...

Yes and the Vegan lunches were superb

when you say pilgrimage - stoke newington, right?

We were very happy to have given our paper its first outing in Liverpool at the wonderful SLSA conference. Lots of great reflections and questions, thank you for organising!

Reintroduction of questionnaires in equality cases. Significant. Practical and effective.

Stellar panel discussing The Minimum Wage: Tool of Emancipation or Tool of Coercion? This Thursday, 6 March. Come to City in Clerkenwell this Thursday at 4pm for Panel presentations, discussion after and evening drinks. All are welcome. Map on event page. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Safe in Leicester Town?1 Law’s Reach to Those Working for Less Than the National Minimum Wage Abstract. This article examines the origins of paragraph 2.42 of the guidance issued under the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which concerns identification. It t

Happy this is out. Thank you to all who patiently listened and generously suggested improvements. All are remembered. academic.oup.com/ilj/advance-...

How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Britons need better work ethic, says senior Tory MP Chris Philp The shadow home secretary says the UK is in a global race and everyone needs to make a contribution.

The old 'Brits are the idlers of the world' trope resurfaces, last used by Liz Truss in her 'book'. A sure vote-winner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Indian workers to stage mass protest on 5 February Ahead of the upcoming budget session, a joint platform of central trade unions, independent sectoral federations, and associations in India has called for nationwide protest actions starting on 5 Febr...

📢 Mass Protest in India on 5 February! 🇮🇳✊

Indian workers are taking to the streets to demand fair wages, secure jobs, and labour rights. Unions across the country are mobilizing against exploitative policies and corporate greed.

👇👇🏽

www.industriall-union.org/indian-worke...

HalloBonjour- GoodbyeAdieu

In other news, first labour law lecture of the year tomorrow with some actual labour law coming down the line! And (one I have had my eye on) a lovely circular lecture theatre in which to talk to my 190 students about why that is such a good thing.

economic strong arming

on.ft.com/4hucRpm Good article on the appeal of free trade though tends to lump together in one mass all people in Asia and Africa outside Davos. Armchair may be an appropriate visual...

Nine Hour Movement The Nine Hour Movement was an international phenomenon, taking place in Canada between January and June 1872. The movement’s goal was to standardize shorter w...

27-01-1872 CANADA: A public meeting at the Mechanics' Institute in Hamilton adopts resolutions to reduce the normal working week from 60 to 54 hours. When the Nine Hour League is announced, support grows in a dozen centres, from Sarnia to Montréal. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/n...

Lets listen to them while they are here. scroll.in/article/1078...

Ripetetele ai vostri figli.
O vi si sfaccia la casa,
la malattia vi impedisca,
i vostri nati torcano il viso da voi.
(Repeat them to your children. Or may your house crumble, illness best you, your descendents turn their faces from you).

Meditate che questo è stato:
vi comando queste parole.
Scolpitele nel vostro cuore
stando in casa andando per via,
coricandovi, alzandovi.
(Stop to think that this has happened; I commend these words to you, carve them into your heart, at home, on the street, at home, on your way, sleeping, waking)

Considerate se questa è una donna,
senza capelli e senza nome
senza più forza di ricordare
vuoti gli occhi e freddo il grembo
come una rana d'inverno.
(Consider whether this is a woman, without hair or name, without strength left to remember, with empty eyes and cold womb, like a frog in winter)

Considerate se questo è un uomo
che lavora nel fango
che non conosce pace
che lotta per mezzo pane
che muore per un si o per un no.
(Consider whether this is a man, who works in mud, who knows no peace, who fights for half a piece of bread, who dies by a yes or a no)

As we approach 80 years since the red army arrived at Auschwitz, this, from one of its survivors:
Voi che vivete sicuri
nelle vostre tiepide case,
voi che trovate tornando a sera
il cibo caldo e visi amici:
(You, who live safe in your heated houses, who come home to warm food and friendly faces)

Influence of super rich on Donald Trump threatens democracy, say Patriotic Millionaires Pro-tax group tell world leaders that ‘wealth extremism’ is damaging trust in media and influencing legal systems

So the new classification is:

Billionaires - the bourgeoisie
Millionaires - the proletariat
Everyone else - lumpen

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is scary stuff. What is the idea? Give up on the planet and book your ticket to space?

20-01-1934 GERMANY: The Nazis abolish collective bargaining and union elections. According to the law "the head of the company decides for the employees and workers in any matter concerning the company [...] The workers owe their loyalty to him".

40 years on, still calling it out. My friend and strong-spirited advocate, Indira Jaising SC.

Barbara Castle

some are cost neutral too and some in the business long term interest.

Impressive statistics on 30km/h city speed limit. (18 mph)

These thoughts from Felogene Anumo all still hit home.