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Birmingham’s striking bin workers and supporters bring waste sites to a standstill
THE European Parliament could torpedo David Cameron’s plans to cut benefits for migrant workers, its president Martin Schulz said yesterday.
Tory PM Mr Cameron met German MEP Mr Schulz in Brussels in a bid to win support for his EU membership renegotiation proposals ahead of the make-or-break summit with member states’ leaders on Thursday.
Downing Street has claimed that any deal struck would constitute a “legally binding document under international law.” Mr Cameron is poised to call an emergency cabinet and name the date for the referendum on Friday if he secures a deal.
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
The German Chancellor seeks EU sanctions on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to prevent future governments from resuming Russian gas deliveries, delivering a devastating blow to German industry — and German workers, writes RAINER RUPP
