SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
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It’ll take more than rhetoric to reverse the Tories’ pay cap
Scotlands workers cant rely on the SNP to bring about a real change in pay policy, writes LYNN HENDERSON
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
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by Dr David Lowry, Institute for Resource and Security Studies
This strike is about pay and conditions, says CAMERON HARRISON – but it also shows workers have the power to disrupt the mightiest war machine on Earth
ALMOST ten years since the crisis of economic greed, ordinary public-sector workers continue to pay the price of bailing out the bankers through wages slashed, cut, frozen and capped.
What a terrible way to treat the people who keep this country running. People that look after our courts, jobcentres, tax offices, schools, hospitals, driving centres, museums, galleries, passport offices, coastguard centres, fire and police stations and borders have seen their standards of living slip.
The services they deliver are run down. Only commitment to the public good drives these workers on.
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