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A VICTORY over SNP plans to cut facility time shows that workers will “always win” when they stand together, shop stewards said.
At the Scottish TUC Congress today, the federation’s general secretary Grahame Smith announced that West Dunbartonshire Council had abandoned a proposal to slash paid time for union conveners.
He was speaking shortly before Nicola Sturgeon addressed the congress. It was expected that union reps from West Dunbartonshire would challenge the SNP First Minister over the plans.
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds