Category: Finance News

Feb 25

SEIU Local 2: Rally Today at Halifax City Hall as all twelve janitors losing jobs at Alderney Gate

Article content Weeks after cleaners sign new collective agreement, HRM Council decision to go with a cheaper non-union contractor will result in deteriorating working conditions Article content HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Feb. 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The janitors who clean and maintain Alderney Gate, and their supporters will be holding a rally at City Hall […]
Feb 25

CBI boss warns Reeves’s farm tax raid could hobble Britain’s economy

Rachel Reeves’s plan to reduce inheritance tax relief for farmers risks hampering growth and destabilising the wider economy, according to Rain Newton-Smith, head of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Addressing the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) on Tuesday, Newton-Smith criticised the Chancellor’s decision to cut Agricultural Property Relief—previously exempting farms from inheritance tax—as a “£500 […]