Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
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SOLOMON HUGHES reveals how the Tory MP for Shrewsbury is moonlighting for the Electrum Group – a mining firm owned by a man who is suing an entire country
Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski
Young workers do want to get involved in Unison, and where that is enabled we see growth in workplace power, argue Unison North West Young Members co-chairs ZAIHERA CHAUDHRY and IAN CAULFIELD
British military spending is among the highest in the world, diverts scarce resources from far better causes and fuels international conflict. It’s time we made different choices, argues LIZ PAYNE
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Animal metaphors are testament to delight in the non-human world and what we hope and wish for human freedom, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT"
Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
SHREWSBURY Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski is now moonlighting with a controversial New York-based mining investment firm.
Kawczynski will get £72,000 a year to work for The Electrum Group — almost as much as the £76,000 a year he gets to represent the people of Shrewsbury.
Kawczynski says in the register of MPs’ interests that in February he became a “consultant providing general advice” to Electrum Group, based on Madison Avenue, New York.
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