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The Port of Leith on the Firth of Forth, Edinburgh. Forth Port's bid to be a new green freeport to be centred in Leith has been approved after the UK and Scottish Governments announced that two new green freeport's will be established in Scotland. Picture date: Friday January 13, 2023
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UNITE’S policy conference voted to challenge moves towards freeports that are “shrouded in secrecy” today.
Delegate Phil Clarke said freeports looked set to be a “Trojan horse for watered-down employment protections” and asked whether they would really entail job creation or simply displace existing jobs.
Conference passed a motion arguing “freeports have been set up to help government with their programme of slashing regulation in its post-Brexit dogma,” and calling on all Unite reps in areas affected to get involved in campaigns to ensure workers’ rights are not diluted, environmental impact assessments are carried out and the objectives of freeports’ boards and employers on them are disclosed.
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
