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TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady (front centre) during a rally in central London in May this year
JOHN MCDONNELL vowed today to implement “union rights from day one” of a Labour government, to counteract creeping neoliberalism even within unions themselves.
Speaking to Unite delegates at the union’s biennial policy conference in Brighton, the shadow chancellor said that the current neoliberal system is failing and that major change is needed.
He said: “We need to understand the significance of the moment we’re in. Neoliberalism has dominated economic thinking in this country for nearly more than 30 years.
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street