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Calls for PCS to take a neutral position on abortion were overwhelmingly rejected at the union’s conference yesterday.
Delegates dismissed demands for the union to cancel its affiliation to the Abortion Rights campaign after a decade of support.
PCS is among nine trade unions that back the pro-choice group, along with the TUC and the National Union of Students.
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
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
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns