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ORDINARY workers offered their unique take on the meaning of May Day to the Morning Star yesterday on a thousand-strong march through Glasgow.
Anne Dean, an NHS community team manager from East Renfrewshire, said she was glad of the opportunity to gather across trade-union lines, an action made all the rarer by restrictive laws outlawing solidarity strikes.
The GMB member, who wore a Scottish Labour pin, said she had been a committed party supporter but the coming year represented a “last chance” for leader Ed Miliband to pledge legislation protecting trade-union freedoms to demonstrate and bargain collectively.
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