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Women striking back
As the National Assembly of Women gathers for a seminar this weekend, VICKY KNIGHT outlines some of the major tasks facing women today
ANSELM ELDERGILL recalls the misjudgments, mishaps and moments of farce that shaped his years in legal practice
MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
Amid the festive lights, Scotland faces a stark holiday truth: only real investment in public services and the workers who sustain them can lift communities out of poverty, argues LILIAN MACER
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
“STRIKING Women — Combatting the Stereotype” is the theme of the fourth seminar of the National Assembly of Women (NAW) 2024. The event is being held this weekend at the NASUWT education centre at Rednal, Birmingham, and will host an esteemed panel of speakers from across the movement, including Unison, Unite, RCM, PCS, TUC and the National Pensioners Convention.
The seminar will recognise and debate the role of women in leading, taking and supporting strike action, building industrial responses to improvements in pay, terms and conditions of workers, too many of whom are low-paid workers, often women workers in precarious employment sectors.
Unison speaker Jo Moorcroft will share with delegates an example of her union campaigning for NHS workers in the north-west region, where in 2022 alone, the union organised around healthcare assistants in Greater Manchester and won over £30 million in back pay for members.
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