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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What the future of work might look like
With global corporations like Amazon and Uber driving AI advances and the increase in surveillance during the Covid crisis, now is the time to get clued up on how technological advance can be made to work for the workers, says ANDY BAIN
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
AS PART of its series of centenary events, the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) is hosting a Future of Work conference with a great line-up of speakers.
Developments in robotics and AI have recently been sped up by some big businesses to capitalise on the pandemic crisis, as capital usually does.
Unless controlled, these new technologies will add to the unemployment and underemployment numbers, which were growing pre-Covid and will massively escalate due to the British government’s managing of the crisis.
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