Edmund Heery
edpenarth.bsky.social
Edmund Heery
@edpenarth.bsky.social
Retired academic - industrial relations. Interested in all things related to work and employment. Researching the Living Wage.
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A reminder of the importance of universities to a local economy. Lancaster's university is fundamental to the area, with the centre already looking rather run down.
'The prospect of hundreds of job cuts at Lancaster University could damage the city's economy, students have warned.'

'Could'? Surely 'will'.
Fears Lancaster University job cuts would hit city's businesses
Lancaster University is seeking to cut 400 full-time posts as part of efforts to save £30m.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Economic growth continued to slow in the third quarter of the year – down from 0.7 per cent in Q1, to 0.3 per cent in Q2 and to just 0.1 per cent in Q3.
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Wagemap is a new organization seeking to establish a global standard for the recording and presentation of living wage data to allow international comparison and support social justice campaigning:
wagemap.org
WageMap - Supporting the achievement of living wages for workers through standardizing living wage data
Website of the WageMap Initiative
wagemap.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Launch of Living Wage Week this morning at the Norwegian Church in Cardiff Bay. David Nash doing the honours
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Taking place in Cardiff this afternoon as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - Running a Local Campaign on Fair, Local and Good Quality Jobs
November 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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📢 Preston City Council has launched a grant scheme to help local SMEs cover the fee for Living Wage Foundation accreditation. If you're a Preston-based SME, check your eligibility and apply here:
🔗 www.preston.gov.uk/article/1110...
September 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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💼Job opportunity at Cardiff Business School

Research Associate - Nuffield Foundation Research Project

📅Deadline for applications: Wednesday 10 September

More information on the project👇
nuffieldfoundation.org/project/musc...

Apply here👇
jobs.ac.uk/job/DOH575/r...
August 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Just published as an open access paper by IRJ. An overview of political devolution in the UK and its effects on industrial relations
August 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Work with us!
We're on the lookout for a Living Wage Projects Officer who brings experience in employer or business engagement, excels in communication and persuasion, and thrives in collaborative environments.
Find out more here: shorturl.at/oZUE6
#LivingWage #Scotland #Glasgow
August 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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I have a new article out in Ecological Economics (open access):
“Keynes as a post-growth economist” - on Keynes's long-run vision of the economy, its lessons for modern economics debates and the limits of "Green Keynesianism"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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In Britain, the fast-rising minimum wage is catching up with the bottom rungs of white-collar work. In fact, it appears that a rising number of people who earn annual salaries & don't work in low-paid sectors are now being paid below the legal minimum... www.ft.com/content/5f69...
May 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Cardiff University strikes called off as job cuts paused
Cardiff University strikes called off as job cuts paused
The union warned of a "summer of chaos" if the university did not back down on its proposed cuts.
www.bbc.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Latest contribution to Welsh economic history by my brilliant colleague, Leon Gooberman. Published by University of Wales Press
www.uwp.co.uk/book/waging-...
Waging War and Building Peace | UWP
www.uwp.co.uk
April 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Thousands of people marched through the streets of Barry today in support of Welsh independence
Thousand join latest march for independence in Barry
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Barry on Saturday in support of Welsh independence. South Wales Police estimated that over six thousand people followed the circular route from the t...
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April 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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UK universities should be advising students and staff travelling to the US on social media use, what border staff are entitled to seize or search, what to do if detained, and how to keep US colleagues safe, says @petraboynton.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
A safety manual for academics visiting America - Research Professional News
Petra Boynton looks at what advice UK universities should give US-bound researchers and students
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Please be one of the remaining 850 signatures if you haven't yet signed. A HUGE THANK YOU!
April 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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“ITUC welcomes new ILO living wage programme

In a step towards ending the global scandal of poverty pay, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a new programme that puts the principle of a living wage at the heart of its support to countries.”

#LivingWage
ITUC welcomes new ILO living wage programme
In a step towards ending the global scandal of poverty pay, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a new programme that puts the principle of a living wage at the heart of its suppor...
www.ituc-csi.org
April 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Miguel Martinez Lucio (@workequalities.bsky.social) and I have a new edited text out this month on how workplace representation in the UK has changed in recent years. Please order for your libraries bookstore.emerald.com/focusing-or-...
April 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Union members at Cardiff University have announced plans for a marking and assessment boycott on top of strike action in response to hundreds of academic jobs being axed. @julietterowsell.bsky.social reports
#AcademicSky
Cardiff union goes ‘nuclear’ with marking boycott plus strikes
University and College Union disputes institution’s claim to have significant cut job cuts figure
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM