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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar
POLITICAL leaders were quizzed by trade unionists about their plans for Scotland’s next parliament during a hustings on Monday night, with calls for employment law to be devolved to Holyrood.
At an event organised by the STUC, representatives from Unite, Unison, GMB, the FBU and the EIS spoke out about issues facing workers across Scotland.
The debate saw First Minister Nicola Sturgeon face off with Labour leader Anas Sarwar, Green co-leader Patrick Harvie, Stephen Kerr of the Tories and Alistair Carmichael of the Lib Dems.
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
Delegates call for government intervention to save jobs at Grangemouth
COLL McCAIL rejects the Scottish Establishment’s attempt at an ‘elite lockout’ of Reform UK and says the unions should be wary of co-option by their class enemies in Holyrood just to keep one set of austerity-mongers in power instead of Reform UK
