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Customers entering a bank have their temperature checked and their hands sanitized as a precaution against the COVID-19 virus, in Baghdad, Iraq
TRADE unions across the world are leading the battle to protect workers and their families from economic dislocation caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Unions are fighting to ensure workers receive sick pay, avoid catastrophic loss of income if employers are closing businesses and that governments put measures in place to protect their homes.
Australia’s Community & Public Sector Union reported today that it had convinced the Australian Public Service Commission to extend paid leave to casual staff who contract Covid-19 or have to self-isolate due to exposure to infected persons.
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street