by Her Excellency Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to the United Kingdom
DELEGATES’ and visitors’ lanyards and all the branding at this week’s TUC Congress call for a new deal for workers, and after nearly a decade of Tory austerity, and decades of neoliberalism, such a new deal couldn’t be more needed.
It is an absolute scandal that we have six million people earning less than the living wage, and four million children growing up in poverty, with more children in working families being reliant on foodbanks than ever before.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
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
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people



