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Left-wing think tank the Jimmy Reid Foundation has called for a new Scottish industrial democracy with workers' places on boards of companies.
In a report published today, Working Together, the authors argue: "We cannot allow the national failures in industrial relations that we have recently seen in Grangemouth repeated."
The Common Weal model proposes that "all workplaces would have collective bargaining recognition of all trade unions no matter the level of trade union density."
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
BFAWU general secretary SARAH WOOLLEY highlights a catalogue of health and safety failings at the Mowi fish processing plant in Fife
As bus builder Alexander Dennis threatens Falkirk closure and Grangemouth faces ruthless shutdown by tax exile Jim Ratcliffe, RICHARD LEONARD MSP warns that global corporations must be resisted by a bold industrial strategy based on public ownership