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SHADOW health secretary Andy Burnham admitted yesterday that the last Labour government was too close to big business.
He praised Ed Miliband for being the “first political leader to stand up to Rupert Murdoch” at shopworkers’ union Usdaw national conference.
“He is prepared to intervene where markets do not work like freezing energy prices,” he said.
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
LOUISA BULL traces how derecognition, outsourcing and digitalisation reshaped the industry, weakened collective bargaining and created today’s precarious media workforce
Four decades on, the Wapping dispute stands as both a heroic act of resistance and a decisive moment in the long campaign to break trade union power. Lord JOHN HENDY KC looks back on the events of 1986