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

Dangerous conditions and political inaction still define the salmon industry, where BFAWU is pressing hard for change, says SARAH WOOLLEY

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

A major new report highlights the the dire state of our prison system – and demands urgent action from government, explains PHIL FAIRLIE

SYLVIA HIKINS welcomes a survey of successful contemporary worker co-operatives and economy-based co-operative systems

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

Campaigners and TUC welcome government consultation on non-disclosure agreements

A major conference motion calls on educators to challenge far-right narratives and confront misogyny in schools. VONNI HARDMAN explains

Austerity is breaking the education system. We must unite to save our schools and pay our teachers properly, says NEU national president ED HARLOW

Marx’s early lectures on economics, together with Engels’s additions, provide a valuable introduction to Marxist political economy today, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

As the far right gains ground, Fire Brigades Union members are organising in workplaces and on the streets to defend public services and workers’ rights, says STEVE WRIGHT

Green Party leader Polanski slams Chancellor Reeves' ‘unbelievably weak response’ to the ‘enormous bill hikes facing households’

As delegates from the north-east, Yorkshire & Humber meet this weekend in Durham, TUC regional secretary DAVE PIKE speaks to Ben Chacko about the challenges ahead

Changing visa rules are pushing young migrant workers into precarious work and exploitation, report NUPUR PALIWAL and SOMIHA CHATTERJEE of the Student Federation of India

Prison Officers’ Association general secretary and TUC president STEVE GILLAN looks at what’s missing from the Employment Rights Act, and why we need further legislation

MAISE RILEY looks at the roots of sexist ideology and asks how unions can organise to fight it

PHILIP ENGLISH says military spending will not create the jobs young people need — instead, build an economy based around needs, not profit

Campaign group ITF Women C190 call for a full investigation

As women dominate public services yet face pay gaps, unsafe workloads and rising misogyny, this International Women’s Day and TUC Women’s Conference must be a rallying point, says ANDREA EGAN

The TUC’s NIKKI POUND says there are gains in the Employment Rights Act for women — but there’s a hell of a lot more to fight for 

FRAN HEATHCOTE looks at the persisting inequalities women face in the Civil Service workplaces as TUC women’s conference begins