Organising Amazon: the battle isn't over
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko reports on an event detailing GMB's campaign to unionise the Coventry warehouse addressed by regional organiser FERDOUSARA UDDIN and Amazon worker LOUVEZA IQBAL
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KEITH BENNETT explains why, despite its present meagre economic outcomes, an honest and fruitful partnership with China is worth pursuing
Nick Wright talks to photographer and author JANINA STRUK
HOW to organise workers in sectors with low union density is the biggest dilemma facing the trade union movement. Most workers — almost 78 per cent of the British workforce — are not in unions.
Not only does this deny most workers a voice at work, it has serious political ramifications.
Politicians of all stripes would have to deal more seriously with union concerns if the labour movement encompassed most of the workforce. Our industrial power to influence policy would be far greater.
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