BRITAIN’S trade unions have vowed to fight for a new deal for workers to combat in-work poverty, job insecurity and automation.
At the Trades Union Congress in Brighton today, delegates voted to create a “New Deal for Workers” campaign to improve pay and working conditions.
The composite motion agreed that a summit should be held in the first half of 2020 to agree how to recruit unorganised workers and to end workplace recruitment competition between unions.
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
Women are a vital part of the labour movement and have much to contribute, but there’s far more to be done to make sure that our sisters’ voices are truly heard, says PHILIPA HARVEY
KEVAN NELSON reveals how, through its Organising to Win strategy, which has launched targeted campaigns like Pay Fair for Patient Care, Britain’s largest union bucked the trend of national decline by growing by 70,000 members in two years
