GMB leader Tim Roache said yesterday that the union is taking an “angry Remain” position in the referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU.
At his first conference since being elected general secretary last November, Mr Roache will rally members to turn out on June 23 to keep Britain in the EU in order to protect workers’ rights.
But the straight-talker sought to put distance between his union and the official Tory-dominated Remain campaign.

CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart

Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT

Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people