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The Glasgow women’s strike for equal pay shows what can be won when we stand together
At Unison, we’re working to not only increase pay, but to increase the value and respect for those jobs traditionally done by women, says CHRISTINA McANEA
RICHARD BURGON MP reports that Cuba’s world-renowned medical programmes that support not only its citizens but countries worldwide are under strain from the US blockade, but the British labour movement can and must help
It’s hard to understand how minor divisions can come to dominate the process of building a challenge to the rule of the rich when the desperate need for a vehicle to fight poverty and despair is so abundantly clear, writes MATT KERR
Two-hundred years ago, on September 27 1825, the world’s first passenger railway line was opened between Stockton and Darlington. MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, reflects on the history – and the future – of Britain’s railway industry
In Washington, the willingness to accept an open war with Russia is growing — at Europe’s expense. While Nato states are being drawn into confrontation, Europe risks becoming the battlefield of a potential world war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
GEOFF BOTTOMS charts the history of the Stockton & Darlington Railway 200 years ago, which served as a blueprint for the modern network and opened up a new era of working-class travel
ALMOST 35 years after the principle of equal pay for work of equal value became law, more than 8,000 workers — mostly low-paid women — had to go the lengths of taking strike action against Glasgow City Council to actually make it a reality.
The workers were predominantly care employees, learning-support workers in schools, nursery staff, cleaners and catering workers.
The strike in October was the biggest equal pay strike in the UK. This was a dispute that had been running for more than a decade and there had been many attempts — both through legal and industrial action — to resolve it. But that final push, with thousands taking strike action, was the key to securing a settlement.
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