Covid demonstrated that it’s our class — the cleaners, carers, nurses, supermarket workers, delivery drivers, transport workers, teachers and postal workers — that really matters, not the financiers and their Tory allies, writes PAT RAFFERTY

Profit-driven private contractors must play absolutely no role in the new national care service, writes Unite Scotland regional secretary PAT RAFFERTY

A new survey reveals that Scotland’s ambulance and health services are in crisis and our members and the public can’t wait for help any longer, writes PAT RAFFERTY, Scottish Secretary of Unite

They have kept everything from our schools to our roads open — so why is their current pay offer more like a slap rather than a clap, asks PAT RAFFERTY

Ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections PAT RAFFERTY introduces the five demands of Unite’s manifesto for those that look after society’s most vulnerable

We must hold Holyrood to account over its shaky commitment to regulating the practice, writes PAT RAFFERTY

The Scottish Labour Party announced at its conference in March its plan to introduce free bus travel across Scotland. PAT RAFFERTY assesses the feasibility of the idea

People should be under no illusions that our employment and human rights are now being targeted by the Conservative government, under the cloak of Brexit, says PAT RAFFERTY

The broken model of outsourcing and privatisation must be challenged, writes PAT RAFFERTY