Concrete proposals are needed to bring about full integration of the rail system, with real protections for workers and an end to private operators, argues EDDIE DEMPSEY
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A recent Union Street blaze showed firefighters at their best, but years of underfunding and job losses are stretching the service to its limits, writes JOHN McKENZIE
As the STUC gathers in an election year, the message to politicians is clear – continuing managed decline is unacceptable to Scotland’s workers, says ROZ FOYER
Inspired by Ireland’s success, Equity urges all parties to support a basic income for artists that could unlock talent and boost the economy, says MARLENE CURRAN
A major new report highlights the the dire state of our prison system – and demands urgent action from government, explains PHIL FAIRLIE
Dangerous conditions and political inaction still define the salmon industry, where BFAWU is pressing hard for change, says SARAH WOOLLEY
WHEN first standing for London mayor in 2000, Ken Livingstone was asked by a journalist: “Can you tell us a joke?”
“Salman Rushdie was on a train and it pulled into a station,” he began. “He saw Yasser Arafat and his entourage of bodyguards and was so overcome with the emotion of seeing his great hero, he raced to embrace him. But the bodyguards weren’t very well versed in modern literature and had no idea who he was.
“So they shot him dead, thus proving the value of that old adage: never go for a Shi’ite while the train is in the station.”
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