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Delegates at the opening session of the STUC congress in Dundee yesterday condemned the continuing attack on workers’ rights and trade union freedoms.
It was “a litmus test” for government at all levels — including Holyrood — STUC vice-president June Minnery said.
“Either they seek to support an agenda for collective bargaining or they cease with the platitudes about inequality, low wages and decent work.”
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In part IV of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells how austerity minister Francis Maude’s attempt to destroy the PCS Civil Service union totally backfired
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
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