Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
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Greenports – you take the high road and we take the low road but it’s still an employer ‘free-for-all’
New special port zones planned by the Scottish government must not be used as a way to attack workers’ rights, warns DEREK THOMSON
The Port of Leith on the Firth of Forth, Edinburgh, January 13, 2023
Young workers do want to get involved in Unison, and where that is enabled we see growth in workplace power, argue Unison North West Young Members co-chairs ZAIHERA CHAUDHRY and IAN CAULFIELD
British military spending is among the highest in the world, diverts scarce resources from far better causes and fuels international conflict. It’s time we made different choices, argues LIZ PAYNE
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Animal metaphors are testament to delight in the non-human world and what we hope and wish for human freedom, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT"
Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
FIRST of all, I would like to wish all Morning Star readers a happy and peaceful new year. With so much unrest and war raging throughout many parts of the world, not least in Palestine and Ukraine, we must always keep in mind how fortunate we are compared to people enduring unbearable pain on a daily basis.
This does not mean here at home however that we are immune from significant challenges. After 14 years of Tory rule, much poverty, hardship and destruction has been unleashed on communities across Scotland and the wider UK.
So, when it comes to policy announcements stemming from the Tories, which at face value appear to be good news, you don’t have to go that deep beneath the surface until you find the major snags. Freeports — or as they are to be named in Scotland, greenports — are perhaps the primary example of more bad news for workers underneath the veneer of job creation.
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