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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.
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ANN HENDERSON looks at the centenary of the foundation of the STUC women’s committee, and the challenges facing women in the trade unions today
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