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US President Donald Trump on his golf course at the Trump Turnberry resort in South Ayrshire in July 2018
THE RMT stepped up its campaign to rescue jobs at Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf resort today before a consultation on the “brutal” cuts closes this week.
The union is encouraging people to back an online petition against an “all-out assault on jobs and conditions” at the US president’s Scottish flagship resort under cover of the Covid-19 crisis.
The package of measures opposed by the RMT involves the axing of up to 80 jobs alongside cuts to sick pay, working hours, pay enhancements, staff benefits and working conditions.
Spain has joined South Africa’s ICJ genocide case against Israel while imposing weapons bans and port restrictions, moves partly driven by trade unions — proving just how effectively civil society can reshape government policy, writes RAMZY BAROUD
