Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
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The rotten stench of the City sewer
STEVEN WALKER looks at how the actions of Britain’s leading banks have earned the City of London its reputation as the money-laundering capital of the world
Young workers do want to get involved in Unison, and where that is enabled we see growth in workplace power, argue Unison North West Young Members co-chairs ZAIHERA CHAUDHRY and IAN CAULFIELD
British military spending is among the highest in the world, diverts scarce resources from far better causes and fuels international conflict. It’s time we made different choices, argues LIZ PAYNE
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Animal metaphors are testament to delight in the non-human world and what we hope and wish for human freedom, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT"
Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
THE Financial Conduct Authority has launched criminal proceedings against tax-payer owned Natwest Bank for failing to comply with anti-money laundering rules, in the first attempted prosecution against a British bank under the 2007 law.
Natwest faces a potentially unlimited fine after the FCA alleged it had failed to properly monitor the actions of a gold dealer. The customer was Fowler Oldfield, a Bradford-based jewellery wholesaler that was shut down after a police investigation in 2016.
The FCA said the company paid £365m into its Natwest account in a series of increasingly large cash deposits between 2011 and 2016. A judge in a court case heard in 2019 said the 122-year-old gold dealer was involved in “an extremely sophisticated” money laundering operation, with up to £2m in cash being delivered to the business each day.
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