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TRADE unions are making plans to challenge Con-Dem pay cuts with a summer strike that could see millions of workers walk out together.
Members of five unions could take action on July 10 over the Tory-led government’s attacks on public-sector pay, the Star understands.
National Union of Teachers members have already voted for a summer strike and the union may decide to join the walkout at its next executive meeting.
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK