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.”
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
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
But unions warn renationalisation must not be fudged
