The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
THE Labour Party is the party of work and the party of the trade unions and, as our economy stagnates and lies unprepared for the challenges of Brexit ahead, this link has never been so vital.
We were born out of the trade union movement. We are its political wing and down the years people have forgotten that at their peril.
That’s why I was pleased to receive great support from trade unions and trade unionists in my recent election to lead the Scottish Labour Party.
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK tells Ben Chacko that Labour can win back disillusioned voters by delivering workplace reforms, rebuilding trust and challenging the far right’s growing influence
ROZ FOYER explains the significance and tradition of today’s St Andrew’s Day March and Rally
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER


