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
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The right to strike is in danger at the US Supreme Court
A company claiming cement that hardened in its trucks during a work stoppage means it can now sue the union that represented the strikers for damages is threatening the very foundation of US workers’ rights, reports MARK GRUENBERG
Nurses shout slogans and hold signs during a nursing strike outside Mount Sinai Hospital on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, in New York
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
IN a complex case from Washington state, the right-wing dominated US Supreme Court tackled the right to strike and whether corporate lawsuits can stop it.
“The right to strike is on trial today at the US Supreme Court,” AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler warned in a January 10 tweet about the case, Glacier Northwest, Inc v Teamsters Local 174.
“For nearly a century, federal law has protected workers’ right to strike to improve their wages, hours and working conditions.”
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