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Great challenges ahead for our movement
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
junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association (BMA) outside the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, as they take to picket lines for six days during their continuing dispute over pay. More than 113,000 hospital appointments and procedures in England were affected by the latest strike by junior doctors, figures show. Issue date: Wednesday January 10, 2024
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Linking the General Strike 1926 to the struggles of workers today. General Strike 100 national co-ordinator HENRY FOWLER reflects on his recent visit to the Bristol Radical History Festival
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THE trade union movement covering the Northern TUC region congregates today to win back workers’ rights across the region — employment rights which have been systematically eroded under this shambolic Tory government.
As delegates from every corner of the region assemble in Newcastle this weekend, it is against a political backdrop that will shape our region for years to come — a government that is still wasting its (hopefully) limited days attacking the right to strike for working people instead of attempting to resolve the mess it has made of our NHS and broader public services.
Privatisation of public services was a bad idea 40 years ago, and still is today. A change of boundaries in the north-east of the region means that as of the mayoral elections in May, the region will be bound in a groundbreaking devolution deal with a new mayor implementing its ambition.
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