HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Trade unions, the working class and our fight against neoliberalism
Nothing has ever been handed on a plate to workers — we have always fought industrially to gain these rights, says DENISE CHRISTIE
FBU Scotland regional secretary Denise Christie
Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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AS WE commence the debates at the 122nd annual STUC Congress, the highest body of the trade union movement in Scotland, it is an appropriate juncture to discuss the great things trade unions have done for the working class and also recognise our responsibilities in the fight against neoliberalism.
Historically, trade unions are a big reason that the working class won many of the protections and rights we now rightfully have.
Health and safety, an end to child labour, equal pay for women (although the fights still continue), shorter working hours, a “living wage,” campaigns to end bullying and harassment, maternity rights, holiday pay etc, have all been won by ordinary working people withdrawing their labour.
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