Labour movement history in Britain shows workers secured reforms through collective pressure and political representation, rather than being gifted from above, writes KEITH FLETT
THIS year I am leading a delegation of Usdaw members to the annual Labour Party conference in Brighton.
Right now, we have a reckless, incompetent Tory government, led by a habitual liar. A government intent on dismantling our welfare state, stripping back our employment rights and cutting our public services back to the bone.
A government so obsessed with delivering Brexit at any cost, that it will ignore the rule of law and drag the country off a cliff to get there. So it is crucial that working people’s voices are heard above all the noise and chaos.
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
SHARON GRAHAM reflects on the lessons of Murdoch’s confrontation with print workers – and argues that, in an age of AI, automation and net zero, only early organisation, collective power and planning can stop history repeating itself
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street


