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PAGE 10 RICHARD LEONARD: LABOUR’S PLAN SCOTLAND FOR PEACE AND SOCIALISM HONDURAS: BRIT FIRMS’ PAGE 11 SPYWARE SALE SHAME £1.50 Saturday/Sunday March 3-4 2018 Proudly owned by our readers | Incorporating the Daily Worker | Est 1930 | morningstaronline.co.uk CARE HOMES’ CONTRACTS DUPING THE ■ EXHIBITION Photos from the marginalised fringe JOHN GREEN is impressed by a new show at London’s Barbican exploring concepts of the outsider as an agent of change. VULNERABLE Turn to page 17 by Sam Tobin Unclear clauses allow evictions at fi rms’ CARE HOME residents are being duped into signing unfair discretion – and even charges after death and unclear contracts which can charge fees for a month after their deaths, a new inves- from £4,000 to more than way” and that most residents Until this situation changes, [the care home] on this.” tigation has found. £15,000. The family were told move into a home “in some Mr Duncan-Jordan said, “we are They added that they did not Consumer rights group that they had signed an agree- form of crisis.” not going to see proper standards remember signing a contract Which? said care homes could ment that this could be done. That means neither residents of care to both those who need it with such a clause in it “as the be breaking the law by failing Another reported their nor their loved ones have time and those who provide it.” time of crisis that had led to us to inform residents and their mother being served an evic- to properly check the home’s Which? also received reports fi nding him a place in a home families about dodgy clauses, tion notice without explanation terms, he said, adding: “Con- of grieving families being he could aff ord was so stressful ■ SPORT such as a right to terminate a and the home manager refus- tracts are written in language charged after-death fees to and we were so desperate.” contract with just 24 hours’ ing to discuss it. The family that particularly frail, older cover income lost while rooms Only four of the 50 care Check out our mini notice for undefi ned “detri- were eventually forced to con- people may fi nd diffi cult to are cleared and cleaned before homes that Which? asked for mental behaviour.” cede that the contract allowed understand.” another resident can move in. a sample contract were willing Cheltenham preview In one case reported to the for residents to be evicted with Above all, he pointed out One respondent, who was to provide one, while the others consumer watchdog, a manager no reason being given. that “over 80 per cent of all told that they would not get any either advised the investigators HORSERACING expert placed a resident with dementia National Pensioners Conven- our care homes are privately of the £3,500 monthly fee back to visit the home or directed FARRINGDON gives his on round-the-clock one-to-one tion national offi cer Neil Dun- run,” meaning that they are after their father died, said that them to websites that did not lowdown of the horses to care at £15 per hour, causing can-Jordan said that “very few “not about care – this is about their grief had meant they were provide the information. look out for. their monthly bills to skyrocket people go into care in a planned business.” “not in a fi t state to challenge Turn to page 5 Turn to page 21 PAGES 5 & 7 TRUMP TARIFF: POPULAR IN US, BUT BRITISH STEEL UNIONS WORRIED Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 2 Saturday/Sunday news morningstaronline March 3-4 2018 @m_star_online ■ IWD ■ WEATHER Cyclists face gruelling hill ‘STOP FORCING STAFF TO climb to mark Women’s Day WORK WHEN IT’S SNOWING’ A WOMEN’S cycling club in Yorkshire are RICHARD LEONARD: Rewrite laws to protect workers’ lives during freezing conditions to dress as suff ragettes and undertake a gruel- EMPLOYMENT laws must be by Conrad Landin “greater access” to workplaces A Glasgow-based charity ling hill-climb tomorrow rewritten to stop bosses forcing Scotland editor “for trade unions, to enforce worker told the Star: “I’ve to mark International workers to risk their lives by Exclusive these rights,” and said he was been seeing a lot of shout-outs Women’s Day. venturing out in the snow and “keen to support initiatives to those who have been ‘brav- The 120-member ice, Richard Leonard has said. such as Better Than Zero.” ing’ the snow to work. Fair play Queensbury Queens of The Scottish Labour leader remain at work. These included Care worker Elaine McNeil and respect to them. the Mountain Cycling was speaking exclusively to branches of Marks and Spencer, was found dead in the snow in “But those who have chosen Club near Bradford was the Star after the Met Offi ce McDonald’s and Morrisons. north Glasgow on Wednesday. not to work to protect their established two years issued an unprecedented red Several of the companies She is believed to have become own health and safety are ago to challenge the alert for Scotland’s central belt later announced that they ill on her way to no less brave or deserving of male stereotype image of this week. would close their outlets early. work and col- respect. cycling as a competitive The Better Than Zero group, Mr Leonard, a former trade lapsed, but “I’m thinking particularly sport. which organises workers on union offi cial, said: “To work, the full cir- of those members of our It was formed after a precarious conditions in Scot- or be asked to work, in [hazard- cumstances staff who have disabilities mum and her six-year- land and campaigns against ous] conditions is an infringe- of the trag- or physical or mental health old daughter watched their exploitation, said it had ment of your rights.” edy are not problems.” a cycling race and the been inundated with calls from He said he would advise known. [email protected] daughter asked: “So only people under pressure to brave anyone in this situation, “if Richard Leonard: P10 boys can race then?” the hazardous conditions. you’re not already a member Elise Fitzgerald, club The red alert meant that of a union, to join one.” communications offi cer, authorities believed the Tackling abusive bosses said: “At Queensbury weather posed a risk to life. It would take a major shake-up, Queens Cycling Club we lasted until Thursday morning, Mr Leonard said, pointing out believe it’s important to but an amber alert — the next that “Labour is committed to challenge these stere- level down — was extended abolishing zero-hours con- otypes and there is a until 10am yesterday. tracts. need to increase parity Roads were closed, trains He argued: “We need to see in professional sport. were cancelled and people a root-and-branch review of “As a club we feel that were advised not to leave their the balance of power in work- cycling is one of the best homes. places. Employment law is basi- ROTTEN TO THE CORE: feelings of empower- Better Than Zero named and cally fashioned on the basis of Campaigners with Lesbians and ment and freedom.” shamed numerous employers a master-servant relationship.” Gays Support the Miners leave The team will tackle and bosses who had reportedly But the Scottish Labour rotten food outside of Serco’s HQ the 1.5 mile climb from asked workers to come in or leader stressed the need for the town of Ilkley to the iconic Cow and Calf FOLLOW US rocks on Ilkley Moor overlooking the Wharfe ON TWITTER ■ MARCH4WOMEN Valley. @M_Star_Online Suff ragette star recites cry for Freedom ACTOR Anne-Marie Duff will 100th anniversary of the fi rst and addressed thousands of suf- recite Emmeline Pankhurst’s women being given the right to fragettes.” renowned Freedom or Death vote and focuses on the inequality London Mayor Sadiq Kahn, rally cry tomorrow at the women and girls face worldwide. along with Ms Pankhurst’s Laugh along March4Women demo for sexual Ms Duff said: “Emmeline great-granddaughter Helen equality. Pankhurst was a formidable Pankhurst — granddaughter with Marx The Suff ragette star, who fi gure, whose name means so of prominent communist and I’ll have the last laugh yet! played laundry worker Violet much to so many people. anti-fascist suff ragette Sylvia — Karl Marx cartoon and caricatures Miller in the fi lm about the “I’m honoured to have been and many other public fi gures An ideal present for the Marx women’s suff rage movement, asked to share them and I can’t will also address the crowd. bicentenary. £11.49 including p&p will read Ms Pankhurst’s 1913 think of a more spectacular The demonstration will speech at the rally in Trafalgar and special location than the start at Millbank at noon and cheques to PPPS, 52 Beachy Road, London E2 2NS, phone (020) 8510-0815 or online at shop.morningstaronline.co.uk Square tomorrow. same spot in Trafalgar Square end with the rally in Trafalgar TRIBUTE: Emmeline Pankhurst The march accords with the where Emmeline herself stood Square. Our Class, Our Culture ■ ANIMAL RIGHTS Lanarkshire Readers & Supporters Group Actors welcome circus wild animal ban THE HISTORY OF THE LANARKSHIRE by Our News Desk for the animals, who must circuses and I’m thrilled that of acts in Britain, with only two STEEL INDUSTRY AND THE NEW endure an utterly unnatural action will fi nally be taken.” performing in England using and miserable life in the cir- She also called for an end to wild animals.