London Living Wage - Hackney Citizen

Bakery workers pave the way for hospitality organising with 'landmark' union recognition

E5 Bakehouse founder Ben Mackinnon has welcomed the agreement as a 'really positive move'

Author: Claudia Lee

In union: bakers at E5 Bakehouse. Photograph: Hackney Citizen

School cleaners call off Hackney strike

Union lifts threat following compromise over pay and contracts

Author: Hackney Citizen

Leader – Sweep Stakes

School cleaners are preparing to strike, but early signs of compromise could bode well for 2018

Author: Hackney Citizen

School cleaner strike: Union leaves door open for talks

More than 40 school cleaners to drop their mops in pay row, as union says ‘someone has to do the dirty work’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Mayor ‘proud’ as London Living Wage hike announced

Rate up 45p to £10.20 an hour as borough celebrates start of Living Wage Week 2017

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Mayor ‘proud’ as London Living Wage hike announced

Picturehouse investigates allegations of ‘cyber attacks’ by union members

Screen giant claims an email sent from a union address ‘instructed employees to encourage attacks’ on its website in support of long-running strike action

Author: Hackney Citizen

Picturehouse investigates allegations of ‘cyber attacks’ by union members

Union boss slams Picturehouse following employee’s suspension

Gerry Morrissey accuses film chain of ‘intimidating’ staff, some of whom have been striking over its refusal to pay a voluntary living wage

Author: Hackney Citizen

Union boss slams Picturehouse following employee’s suspension

Council under fire over use of ‘low pay employers’ in new recycling rewards scheme

‘Bitter irony’ that the scheme’s launch coincided with Mayor Glanville’s pledge to tackle poverty pay

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Picturehouse staff to don Harry Potter costumes in latest strike over London Living Wage

Cinema workers to ramp up pressure on Picturehouse to pay staff a minimum of £9.75 an hour with third walk out in a month

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Picturehouse staff to don Harry Potter costumes in latest strike over London Living Wage

Pay all staff at least London Living Wage, urges Mayor of Hackney

Philip Glanville has called on all businesses in the borough to follow his council’s lead

Author: Hackney Citizen

Do as they do: Philip Glanville with Councillor Carole Williams highlighting the wage issue

Action! Hackney Picturehouse staff to strike over cinema’s refusal to pay London Living Wage

Cinema workers are calling on Hackney Picturehouse to pay its staff a minimum of £9.40 an hour – a figure calculated as the basic cost of living in London

Author: Hackney Citizen

Rio Cinema workers to strike over living wage and redundancies

Staff at the Dalston cinema are demanding to be paid the London Living Wage

Author: Hackney Citizen