FRANCES O’GRADY positioned the TUC to back a second Brexit referendum yesterday, which rail union RMT warned could lead to “civil unrest on our streets.”
The TUC general secretary warned that Britain was at “crisis point,” with the government failing to protect jobs, workers’ rights and peace in Northern Ireland.
She said the TUC “respected” Britain’s decision to quit the European Union, but Theresa May should “take her deal on the terms of Brexit and put it back to the people.”
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart