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People take part in the Scotland Demands a Pay Rise march and rally organised by the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Edinburgh, in September 2022
EVERY available trade unionist needs to be outside a hospital with “delegations and banners” when nurses take strike action on December 15 and 20, a nurses’ rep told the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom conference on Saturday.
The From Pentonville to P&O: Union Rights and Tory Wrongs meeting at the National Education Union HQ in London’s Kings Cross saw hundreds of activists meet to discuss existing and threatened attacks on unions and the current strike wave.
Dave Carr, a Unite rep working in the NHS, said health workers had lived with “reorganisation after reorganisation after reorganisation” in recent years, “a calamity of mismanagement and attacks.”
The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
