The General Strike exposed the power of the working class — and the limits of its leadership, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
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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
Protesters from the National Education Union (NEU), Trades Union Congress (TUC), Public and Commercial Services (PCS), and University and College Union (UCU), gather at the the National Strike Action Rally in Birmingham city centre to protest against the Government's controversial plans for a new law on minimum service levels during strikes, February 1, 2023
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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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