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FLIGHT cancellations continued at LOT Polish Airlines today as workers refused to back down despite 67 of their colleagues being sacked.
Trade unions at the country’s flagship airline have been striking since last Thursday following the dismissal of Monika Zelazik, the cabin crew union’s lead organiser.
The company claims Ms Zelazik had encouraged fellow trade unionists to bring “weapons and explosives” onto company premises, but her colleagues say she was sacked for trade union activity. Unions are engaged in collective action over the airline’s bid to impose new contracts that would define staff as self-employed.
JOHN LANG recalls how Murdoch used scabbing electricians and even devised a fake newspaper to force a confrontation with printers – then sacked them all
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
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR