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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How our movement can counter exploitation in the modern workplace
ANDY BAIN introduces a day school looking at how we organise to fight low pay and insecurity
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
The May Day McDonald’s strike built on the late 2017 successful action and now the workers’ union is demanding £10 an hour.
Bakers and foodworkers union leader Ronnie Draper told the Morning Star: “Pay is still unacceptably low. We have members at McDonald’s who are literally homeless, a member from Cambridge is sofa-surfing because he can’t afford anywhere to live.
Contrast that with McDonald’s boss Steve Easterbrook on £11million a year.
“His pay packet equates to an astonishing £5,700 an hour,” Draper points out.
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