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Covid prevented last year's AGM, but your paper is working to hold one this autumn
People's Press Printing Society chair BOB ORAM explains our plans
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
With 121,000 vacancies and 44.8% of staff feeling unwell from work stress, the NHS 10-year plan will not succeed unless the government takes immediate action to retain existing staff, writes ANNETTE MANSELL-GREEN
With 90 courses from health and safety to neurodiversity, AI and political economy, we are helping workers understand the political context of their struggles, writes general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE
IF, ON March 11 2020 when the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic you had told me we would have to not just cancel that year’s annual general meeting of the People’s Press Printing Society, but seriously delay the next year’s, I would not have believed you.
Trying to second guess the behaviour of a government that has played Covid like a game in a casino was not something the management committee was prepared to do and safety has always been foremost in our mind.
The pandemic is an experience none of us has ever had before and I believe your management committee’s decision to not go ahead with the usual cross-country AGM tour in 2020 was the right one.
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