THE GMB insisted today that pubs are a “community amenity” and have vowed to help resist their closure.
Delegates meeting in Brighton at the union’s annual conference have agreed to use pubs “wherever possible” for union affairs.
Drinkers’ rights campaigners have estimated that an average of 14 pubs close each week.
US-based labour and social movements authors and organisers Robert Ovetz and James Tracy interview DANIEL GROSS about his new book, Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World
TIM ROBERTS says unions have always led on the fight for equality as well as for justice at work
ROGER McKENZIE draws attention to the much-neglected oral traditions of the global South that define the identity – and therefore the liberation – of its custodians
We are experiencing a wave of organised, often deadly violence targeting migrants from other parts of Africa — but the poorest South Africans reject this hatred, staying true to the spirit of Ubuntu and Pan-African unity, reports NIGEL BRANKEN