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THE Scottish Trades Union Congress takes place next week in Dundee under the slogan “Scotland’s Workers Demanding Better,” and indeed they have been, over the past year, through widespread industrial unrest.
Looking through the agenda, it gets off to a good start with a fiery introduction by our general secretary Roz Foyer.
As she says, the “trade union movement have been at the forefront of fighting for pay and economic justice.” It certainly hasn’t been the Scottish government (even before its recent troubles) or Labour, be it at Scottish or British level.
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