JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
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Using 'brains and brawn,' Unite is wresting pay rises from bad bosses
Unite general secretary SHARON GRAHAM speaks to Ben Chacko at the Durham Miners' Gala
Sharon Graham has called for a ‘forensic’ approach to fighting the bosses
SOPHIE BOLT makes an urgent case for comprehensive nuclear disarmament
Today Coventry’s Hiroshima Day Remembrance marks 80 years since the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Statement from Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee of Peace and Reconciliation
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionised in a historic victory for labour, says RIO YAMAT
Letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper – to be delivered by a delegation of Jews to Downing Street today
Laughter has always been how workers cope and fight back, but university-educated union reps now scold members for calling bosses ‘money-grabbing bastards’ and label everyday humour ‘problematic’ — this needs to be stopped, writes MARK JONES
SIXTY-THREE thousand Unite members are currently out on strike, and the union’s leader Sharon Graham was praised for having won over £50 million in pay awards for workers in under a year as general secretary.
This month the union secured a vastly improved pay offer from British Airways — which had been seeking to deny baggage handlers restoration of the 10 per cent pay cut imposed on them during the pandemic — following an overwhelming vote to strike, though action had not begun.
It’s not a story confined to Unite, with workers in multiple unions showing a new readiness to take action and win big on pay. How’s it being done?
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