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GLASGOW MP Chris Stephens is rallying support for a union representative sacked by Ikea for sharing the furniture giant’s plans to slash workers’ sick pay.
The SNP’s Mr Stephens tabled an early day motion (EDM) in Parliament today in support of shop steward and union branch official Richie Venton, who was forced out of his job at Ikea’s Braehead store.
Mr Venton, who led the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers’ (Usdaw) branch at the store, was sacked after he warned workers of the plan to slash their terms and conditions.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street