The Bristol Cable - Issue 01

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Nov – Dec 2014

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Dodgy Landlords

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Pauper’s Grave

Kurdish Bristolians

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BRISTOL’S CATERING SECTOR

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Welcome to the first edition of The Bristol Cable

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Bristol Cable Investigates: Bristol’s catering sector

“It’s taken for granted, long shifts, hot conditions, anti social hours, but u know all this before u start, it’s not really gonna change.”

“Unpaid overtime, stress, abuse the normal stuff in the industry.”

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“Not having the time to have a break, sometimes for 11 hours. Also then being made to feel guilty by having a break and feeling under pressure.”

1. Do you have an employment contract?

No 21.6%

Yes 50%

Zero hour Contract 28.4%

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Do you work over your contracted hours?

No 30.2% Yes 69.8%

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Why do you work over contracted hours? (multiple answers given) Want/need the money 49.3% Gain experience or promotion 13.4% It just gets put on the rota 31.3%

“I have always been in favour of a Living Wage...”

Mayor George Ferguson (2013) £6.65 = Starting wage at The Tobacco Factory, owned by Mayor George Ferguson (Sep. 2014)

Feel slightly pressured to 19.4% Feel ver y pressured to 19.4% I was required to sign to it on my contract 7.5%

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How many of these extra hours are you paid for?

(40% aren’t being fully paid)

None 25.3%

Some 7.5% Most 7.5%

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Why are you not paid for all the time worked? (multiple answers given) I don’t know 14.8% It’s not logged as paid time 22.2% Ever yone just accepts it 48.2%

I fear I would lose my job if I said anything 18.5% I’m expected to work unpaid 44.4%

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Do you think your working conditions are fair?

(80% say no)

Yes 19.6%

No 26.5%

Mostly 30.4%

Some what 21.5% Don’t Know 2%

Your legal rights at work

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All 59.7%

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Dodgy landlords and a community union in Bristol

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A change in life expectancy is just a stop away

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Life expectancy figures reflect the averages in their surrounding wards.

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: In Bristol

In Qatar:

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Free Economy in Bristol: A viable alternative or a plaster?

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Back to the kitchen

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*Average nurses wage is £31,000 p/a

HOW?

If the average hospital employs 500 nurses, 387 hospitals could be fully staffed with nurses for a year with these savings

*Institute for Fiscal Studies, Living Wage Analysis, 2010.

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£6,000,000,000

The IFS estimates that £6 billion could be saved by the public if every private sector employer paid a universal living wage*

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Breaking a glass ceiling: young Somali women reflect on their political activism

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ROTHERMERE CONTINUATION ltd

BARON ILIFFE III & FAMILY

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£266m

£760m

21.3%

38.7%

YATTENDON GROUP

DAILY MAIL & GENERAL TRUST

undisclosed % ODEY ASSET MANAGEMENT

undisclosed % ARTEFACT GROUP

20%

£455m

TRINITY MIRROR

£856m

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people history RGB 38 46 100

Participation infographics RGB 242 230 36

Flow of funds

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Online, In Print And On The Street

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Still Human, Still in Bristol

“One day the Home Office may give me the chance to live like a normal person”

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All names have been changed to protect the innocent, interviewees from Iraq, Iran and Sri Lanka www.scribd.com/doc/177096544/A-decadeof-destitution-time-to-make-a-change www.network23.org/antiraids/ www.cityofsanctuary.org/bristol

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The Cost of cutting youth ser vices

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These homes need people

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“We are not allowed a state on the ground, so we create one online”

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Blacklisting in Bristol: “Keep your mouth shut and keep your head down”

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“I feel that the League as it is presently constituted is a danger to the democratic way of life in this country”

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“If you cannot do it, we can”

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Strangers on trains

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I wish you knew how to say...

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Mass grave of Victorian paupers discovered in Eastville

Upwards of 3,500 paupers from the workhouse were buried in unmarked graves on the site between 1855 and 1895

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The Glorious Dead

Alfred appeared on the roll of honour, but Arthur not

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Between Nov 1918 and Feb 1919 over 250,000 British and Commonwealth troops were involved in strikes or mutinies

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Going out in style

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Strength in Numbers Down the drain

2012

8.6%

2013

6.3%

2014

5%

£17,100,000

“The main drivers of future profitability are expected to be: Increases in charges to customers...”

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Just a £1m insurance premium?

One Million Pounds

Bristol Arena £123,211

(Not quite)

Straight from the horse’s mouth

7 TEN MILLION POUNDS

£70,840

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