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Last month's TUC march for a new deal for workers
AS SOME of the trade union movement’s most effective organisers and activists argue in today’s Morning Star, marking the TUC 150th anniversary this year cannot just consist of celebrating our achievements over that century and a half.
Those achievements have been enormous, of course.
Given a hostile mass media and education system that means too many people grow up without any idea of the role unions have played in winning rights we now take for granted, unions have good reason to point out that weekends off, holiday and sick pay and health and safety regulations that keep us safe at work were all forced from the bosses by unions.
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people