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WORKERS should be appointed to company boards as part of a “genuinely different way” to run the economy, Labour’s Ed Miliband has urged.
The shadow business secretary pointed out that many of Britain’s neighbours, including France and Germany, have laws that require workers to be represented on the boards of all larger companies.
In his new book, Go Big: How To Fix Our World, the former Labour leader warned that the low levels of worker ownership in Britain are symptomatic of a wider problem with the way the economy is run and the limited role of staff in decision-making.
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people
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