Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
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Life on the ‘living wage’
Work simply does not pay for too many millions of workers on insecure and low-paid contracts, says MARTIN SMITH
Young workers do want to get involved in Unison, and where that is enabled we see growth in workplace power, argue Unison North West Young Members co-chairs ZAIHERA CHAUDHRY and IAN CAULFIELD
British military spending is among the highest in the world, diverts scarce resources from far better causes and fuels international conflict. It’s time we made different choices, argues LIZ PAYNE
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Animal metaphors are testament to delight in the non-human world and what we hope and wish for human freedom, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT"
Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
THIS November sees the latest in a series of “living wage” weeks where the charities, academics and financial institutions behind the Living Wage Foundation reveal to a waiting world their opinion on what we can live on in 2015.
In June the new Chancellor gave us his opinion of the wage he thinks we should live on when he cut tax credits by up to £24 per week from next April for the working poor to be paid for by the new “national living wage.” This idea has been passed into law this week.
GMB launched a Life on the Living Wage survey of its members earlier this year. We wanted to know more about the stories behind the competing “living wage” rates.
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