wealthiest 20 families in Scotland are as rich as the bottom 30% of the population combined, a shock trade union report has found.
The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) has today published its "People’s Recovery" paper, which aims to pressure on Holyrood ministers to focus the economic recovery from coronavirus on the needs of ordinary people.The findings have been backed by Scottish Labour and the Scottish Greens, as well as the SNP’s employment spokesman at Westminster.
The report’s wealth calculations were based on the Sunday Times Rich List and survey data. It recommends a number of policies including a pay rise for key workers, an increase in the national minimum wage, publicly-owned energy and construction companies and the.
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