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GMB general secretary Tim Roache
TIM ROACHE has labelled the right-wing Taxpayers’ Alliance pressure group the “Tax Dodgers’ Alliance,” as he warned dodgy employers and the Tory government: “We’re coming for you.”
Speaking to delegates at the GMB annual conference in Brighton yesterday, the union’s general secretary said that “bosses may have power when workers are divided but, when we stand together, our might is absolutely unstoppable.”
He congratulated the union’s membership for putting a “flag in the sand” over various industrial disputes over the past year, mentioning the ongoing struggles against subcontracting giant ISS and British Gas management among others.
In the second of a series of interviews with leaders of progressive parties in Wales ahead of the May 7 Senedd election David Nicholson talks to Welsh Green Party leader ANTHONY SLAUGHTER
RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
