hello there. as you have heard, last minute talks to avoid strike action on the uk s rail network have failed. now, millions of people will face travel misery as the biggest rail strike in 30 years brings services to a standstill in england, scotland and wales. the first strike started this morning and more are planned on most major lines on thursday and saturday. the rmt union says its members oppose stagnating pay and want justice. but industry bodies have warned against a strike action, saying it would shatter hopes of recovery for many businesses . joining me now is dr roger barker, director of policy at the institute of directors. thank you forjoining me today. is it fair to say that businesses will go under this week as a result of the strike? that may well be the case. this is gonna have a big impact on business. that impact will be quite uneven. some of us will be able to go back to working, taking off where we left off during covid. other sectors won t be able to do
That was being shipped . Oh, yeah. And thats because ijust inspect certain areas. So in totality, with all the inspectors, if you total them out, yeah, youd be over the hundreds. Now, you were picking up on these faults, you were highlighting them, you were flagging them up to be repaired. What kind of response did you get from your managers . Did they support you . My managers werent always there. The Production Managers always made a fuss about why i was finding it, why i was looking at it, and they made a big fuss about everything that i ever found. And it was because of the stage of where the plane was. If im looking at a plane thats supposed to be getting shaped and im the last person to see it, i shouldnt be finding missing fasteners, missing parts and things like that. So why were they not thanking you for picking up on these things . They just wanted the product out. They werent focused on the consequences of shipping bad fuselages. They were just focused on meeting the quotas,
director of policy at the institute of directors. what changes will come into force tomorrow? national insurance, it is only and employers and the self employed will showcase a cut tomorrow. they will get a second tax cut tomorrow after one injanuary. this has taken the ratchet national insurance pay my employees down from 12% last year to 8% effective tomorrow. how much you save in terms of your tax bill will depend on your income, but for the average employee earns about 35,000 average employee earns about 35,000 a year in the uk, taking the chewed macro tax cuts together, you are going to be about £900 a year better off, so it is a meaningful tax cuts, but it is occurring in the context of a big tax increase that has occurred over the last few years. we talked about what the balance of benefits is for employees. what is the impression the position for employers? the the impression the position for employers? employers? the situation there is unchanged- employers?
and late yesterday, the chancellor announced the minimum wage is to go up by more than a pound, to £11.44 per hour, from april next year. and jeremy hunt decided the rate would also apply to 21 and 22 year olds for the first time. here s our econmics corrrespondent, andy verity. ona cold, on a cold, damp day at the south london market, ask what they want the government to do something about and you will hear two big concerns that haven t gone away. energy and food. , ., , ., , food. used to get six or seven oran . es food. used to get six or seven oranges for food. used to get six or seven oranges for a food. used to get six or seven oranges for a pound, - food. used to get six or seven oranges for a pound, now - food. used to get six or seven oranges for a pound, now it i food. used to get six or seven i oranges for a pound, now it has five. lemons, ten for a pound, now 87 for a pound. it is hard for the customer, it is hard for the customer, it is hard for us as well.
A deal making club again all those saw the Little Things about you know gay rights equal pay oh thats just a lot of nonsense and its for the media to write about when they dont want to write about the hard facts of how the so few own so much of how so many own so little what exactly mentioned in her report the three day Government Shutdown in the us has finally come to an end after president signed a bill congress now has two weeks to find an agreement on the immigration thats the main Sticking Point between the republicans and democrats at the moment however the Mainstream Media is still focusing on the failures of donald trump even though the shutdown was actually two weeks shorter than the one suffered under the Previous Administration from shutdown that should have been a day of celebration for president from one year in office the one Year Anniversary of his presidency but the party he planned at mar a lago is. No more at the moment because youre waking up to a government that is