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SENIOR trade unionists are calling for a mass mobilisation of the labour movement to defeat the Trade Union Bill — including potentially putting thousands of people on strike pickets in defiance of the proposed new law.
PCS union general secretary Mark Serwotka fired the opening salvo on Tuesday night, calling for “millions of trade union members” to defeat the Tory Bill at an STUC meeting in Glasgow.
He said “if the government attempts to use agency workers to break strikes, we will mobilise thousands on the picket lines.”
In the final part of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explains how in 2018, after years spent rebuilding the PCS into a leading force against austerity, a damaging rupture emerged from within the union’s own left wing
In part IV of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells how austerity minister Francis Maude’s attempt to destroy the PCS Civil Service union totally backfired
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
