General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Getting set for the struggles ahead
Wide-ranging plans to resist Tory government attacks on unions will be laid at the annual conference of Yorkshire and the Humber region of the Trade Union Congress this weekend, writes TUC regional secretary LIZ BLACKSHAW
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THE breadth of motions at our annual conference of Yorkshire and the Humber TUC illustrates the severity of Tory attacks on the trade union movement in the Yorkshire and Humber region and nationwide and the way the movement will respond.
Workers and their unions face the forced labour laws contained in the government’s minimum services level legislation, where workers will be forced to break their own strikes or face the sack.
Our NHS is in crisis due to government underfunding and the creeping infection of privatisation. There are more than 40,000 nurse vacancies nationwide, including many hundreds in Yorkshire and the Humber, as staff are driven out by years of below-inflation pay rises — or no rises at all — which amount to real-terms pay cuts as inflation eats away at the value of wages, year after year.
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Trade union delegates will debate coming battles when they gather in Newcastle for the annual meeting of Northern region of the TUC, writes TUC regional secretary LIZ BLACKSHAW
Opposing anti-strike laws, rebuilding public transport and fighting for better wages are on the agenda at the annual conference of Northern region TUC in Newcastle, writes TUC regional secretary LIZ BLACKSHAW
TUC Northern regional secretary LIZ BLACKSHAW introduces this weekend’s conference which will address the growing crisis of rising costs and stagnant pay with plans for action
