Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
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Moonlighting MPs bring Parliament into disrepute
SOLOMON HUGHES takes a look at the jobs on the side taken by Labour’s Jess Phillips and the Tories’ David Warburton
Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley Jess Phillips
Young workers do want to get involved in Unison, and where that is enabled we see growth in workplace power, argue Unison North West Young Members co-chairs ZAIHERA CHAUDHRY and IAN CAULFIELD
British military spending is among the highest in the world, diverts scarce resources from far better causes and fuels international conflict. It’s time we made different choices, argues LIZ PAYNE
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Animal metaphors are testament to delight in the non-human world and what we hope and wish for human freedom, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT"
Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
SHOULD MPs moonlight? The case against MPs’ second jobs is twofold. First, they are paid £77,000 to represent the nation, so they shouldn’t be working on the side.
Second, they often get these extra jobs because they are MPs and the moonlighting is filled with conflicts of interest that distort democracy.
Let’s take two recent examples from both the Labour and Tory parties.
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