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From Bakers Oven worker to trade union leader
New bakers’ union leader SARAH WOOLLEY talks to the Star about her route into the movement, the need to get better at working together across unions – and getting more union-based storylines in soaps
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
When gas company bosses gorged on assets, the GMB union fought back with the help of a 20-stone saddleback sow. MAT COWARD tells the story
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
“THE trade union movement needs to move away from a model where we look to other forces to help us, and towards one where we’re focused on winning on our own strength.”
Bakers’ union BFAWU general secretary-elect Sarah Woolley is frank about the fact that unions need to up their game in the face of Labour’s defeat last year.
“We need to concentrate on building our unions and serving our members,” she says. “We’ll always support the Labour Party. But they are not going to be in power for five years.
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