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MATALAN workers in Merseyside have gone back on strike after the collapse of “pointless” negotiations.
Warehouse workers at the retail giant’s premises in Knowsley went back to the picket lines yesterday morning after negotiations between management and the GMB fell through late on Sunday.
Employees at the site have rejected the 1.5 per cent pay rise offered by the company, saying that it represents a cut in real terms.
JOHN LANG recalls how Murdoch used scabbing electricians and even devised a fake newspaper to force a confrontation with printers – then sacked them all
Forty years on, TONY DUBBINS revisits the Wapping dispute to argue that Murdoch’s real aim was union-busting – enabled by Thatcherite laws, police violence, compliant unions and a complicit media
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down