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West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin addresses a GMB conference fringe event,
THE best way for working people to help themselves is by joining a union, Labour metro mayor Tracy Brabin said today.
Organised workforces are better for the “greater good,” the West Yorkshire mayor told delegates at a GMB conference fringe event in Harrogate.
Ms Brabin, who is chairwoman of the influential M10 group of Labour regional leaders, introduced her new Fair Work Charter.
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
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
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street