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TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes urged conference to support his plans to take the union forward in an independent capacity after the plans to merge with Unite fell through.
Cortes highlighted how one of the sticking points in negotiations with Unite had been its insistence that there would only be 10 organisers from TSSA.
He outlined how this would not work in a fragmented industry like rail, geographically widespread with 20-odd employers.
Megapicket to shut down Birmingham’s refuse sites
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
‘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
