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UNITE has hailed a groundbreaking recognition agreement for its members working at anti-poverty charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The union said the deal — the first-ever recognition agreement struck between the 119-year-old charity and a union — will initially apply to about 150 workers at offices in London, Glasgow and York.
Employees producing anti-poverty reports as well as administration and grounds maintenance staff will now benefit from collective bargaining rights over pay and employment conditions, Unite said today.
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR