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GLOBAL transport unions launched a new campaign against the shadowy Trade in Services Agreement (Tisa) yesterday.
The International Transport Federation (ITF) launched its campaign against the free-trade pact, which unions and other campaigners say will undermine democracy, workers’ rights and public ownership.
The federation presented a report it commissioned from the German social-democratic Friedrich Ebert Foundation on the agreement’s effect on transport workers.
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
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