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STRIKING bus workers in Manchester will raise a new trade union banner tomorrow as they lead the city’s May Day march.
Four hundred bus workers employed by Go North West, part of public transport giant Go Ahead, have been on strike for eight weeks, resisting pay cuts and worsened conditions planned by the employer using the scandalous fire-and-rehire tactic.
Their union Unite is waging a nationwide campaign in support of the strikers and against fire and rehire, which the TUC says is being used by employers to attack the pay and conditions of 2.3 million workers.
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One hundred years after 1.7m workers shut the country down in defence of the miners, the struggles that sparked the 1926 General Strike are still with us – and will be honoured on London’s May Day march this year, writes MARY ADOSSIDES
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says