Shelly Asquith’s TU-esday round-up: Outsourcing fights and strikes over pay
It’s been a little while since I wrote an update on the industrial news from Labour’s affiliate unions.…
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‘We will fight them at the ballot box’: Unite launches anti-far right Euro campaign
Unite the Union has launched an advertising campaign against the far right ahead of the European elections taking…
“Please pull the plug on Brexit talks,” TSSA’s Cortes urges Corbyn
Manuel Cortes has called on the Labour leadership to end the cross-party Brexit talks, which he describes as…
‘Intergenerational unfairness’? Don’t overlook the class divide
“In the context of a 100-year life, continuous training and retaining will become more important. Older people need…
Solidarity has no borders. Our movement must stand up for Palestine
With the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people under unprecedented attack, we as workers must make our collective…
No EU customs arrangement? That’d be industrial vandalism
It took the Irish famine to finally force Conservative Prime Minister Robert Peel to repeal the Corn Laws…
To future-proof workers’ rights, learn from the minimum wage
This week marked the 20th anniversary of the National Minimum Wage Act, perhaps the most groundbreaking piece of…
Shelly Asquith’s TU-esday round-up: Brexit risks, fake minimum wage, transport strikes
Six million was the number of signatures the Chartists declared had signed their petition. As ‘Revoke Article 50’…
Shelly Asquith’s TU-esday round-up: Anti-Racism Day and #SaveHondaSwindon
While Labour’s affiliated unions may disagree on some of the finer details of Brexit, all are agreed that…
Unions unconvinced by May’s “reheated leftover” offer on worker rights
Theresa May’s efforts to woo Labour MPs into voting for her Brexit deal next week are not going…