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PAYING migrants just £1 an hour to work in detention centres is an “institutionalised forced labour regime,” a leading trade unionist has warned.
TUC race equalities officer Wilf Sullivan made the comments in an interview with the Morning Star before the Black Workers’ Conference at Congress House today.
“We take the view that everyone in employment should be paid at least the minimum wage,” Mr Sullivan said.
As Palestine Action prisoners go weeks without food, alleging dangerous neglect and detention without trial, campaigners warn that a near-total media blackout is hiding a crisis that could turn fatal – and fuel a growing wave of public anger. ELIZABETH SHORT reports
Listening to our own communities and organising within them holds the key to stopping the advance of Reform UK and other far-right initiatives, posits TONY CONWAY
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
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