(left-right) Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner, at the launch event for Labour's campaign bus at Uxbridge College, while on the General Election campaign trail, June 1, 2024
UNIONS will press Labour this weekend to put “flesh on the bones” of its promised New Deal for Workers in the party’s upcoming Budget.
The TUC and General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) are calling for an end to decades of underinvestment and deindustrialisation.
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
The electorate see no evidence of the government’s promises of change, and the good jobs and decent pay that people are crying out for. Bold action is needed right now, warns SHARON GRAHAM
RMT’s former president ALEX GORDON explains why his union supports defence diversification and a just transition for workers in regions dependent on military contracts, and calls on readers to join CND’s demo against nuclear-armed submarines on June 7
