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Last month's TUC march for a new deal for workers
AS SOME of the trade union movement’s most effective organisers and activists argue in today’s Morning Star, marking the TUC 150th anniversary this year cannot just consist of celebrating our achievements over that century and a half.
Those achievements have been enormous, of course.
Given a hostile mass media and education system that means too many people grow up without any idea of the role unions have played in winning rights we now take for granted, unions have good reason to point out that weekends off, holiday and sick pay and health and safety regulations that keep us safe at work were all forced from the bosses by unions.
TIM ROBERTS says unions have always led on the fight for equality as well as for justice at work
Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
Strike Map co-founder HENRY FOWLER discusses the significance of today’s joint union letter to video game giant Rockstar, demanding trade union recognition for its workers. Their conversation highlights how our movement can harness its collective power to rebuild union power across the private sector
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY