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By Derek Kotz
Industrial reporter
BANKERS, big business and landlords in Scotland are making a killing from the Covid-19 crisis, according to research by the STUC published today.
Online retail giants, some manufacturers, fund managers, property owners and the already well-off are revealed to be the big winners from the pandemic by the report, titled Who’s Winning From Covid?
Banks, landlords and utility companies have bagged a “significant proportion” of the financial support provided by the Scottish government, while structural shifts in Scotland’s economy have hit employment and the low-paid hardest, it says.
Trade unions call for windfall tax hike to fund social energy tariff to public’s energy bills
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
ROZ FOYER explains the significance and tradition of today’s St Andrew’s Day March and Rally
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER