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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Westminster under the spotlight
The child sexual abuse inquiry is now focusing on politicians, but will the truth come out, asks STEVEN WALKER
Strike Map co-founder HENRY FOWLER discusses the significance of today’s joint union letter to video game giant Rockstar, demanding trade union recognition for its workers. Their conversation highlights how our movement can harness its collective power to rebuild union power across the private sector
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THE Independent inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has now turned its attention to Westminster politicians and started to examine claims of paedophile MPs’ activity and the cover-ups concealing their crimes against vulnerable children.
This inquiry has been dragging on for nearly five years with three former inquiry heads resigning in that time.
Less than half of MPs in 2014 supported the setting up of the inquiry. The first inquiry head, Dame Butler-Sloss, quit following revelations that her brother Michael Havers, who was attorney-general under Margaret Thatcher, limited the scope of an inquiry into child sexual abuse at the Kincora Children’s Home in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.
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