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RAIL union RMT has requested an urgent meeting with a group of SNP MSPs who sought to discredit ongoing industrial action in the run-up to November’s United Nations climate summit in Glasgow.
The five Glasgow politicians should reiterate their support for the legal right to strike, the union said.
RMT members working on Scotland’s railways have staged industrial action every Sunday for the past six months in a dispute with ScotRail over pay and conditions.
Enduring myths blame print unions for their own destruction – but TONY BURKE argues that the Wapping dispute was a calculated assault by Murdoch on organised labour, which reshaped Britain’s media landscape and casts a long shadow over trade union rights today
On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD
