New industrial strategy vote
SKILLS: STUC conference backed a motion yesterday calling on Holyrood to implement a long-term industrial strategy to prevent unscrupulous employers winning contracts.
Unite Scottish secretary Pat Rafferty said the Scottish government’s A Manufacturing Future for Scotland was “ineffective and weak.” He warned that 120,000 jobs had been lost in manufacturing since 1999 and called on the Scottish government to take action.
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
As bus builder Alexander Dennis threatens Falkirk closure and Grangemouth faces ruthless shutdown by tax exile Jim Ratcliffe, RICHARD LEONARD MSP warns that global corporations must be resisted by a bold industrial strategy based on public ownership


