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27 May 2009
Wales TUC conference - no good news for New Labour
The Wales TUC annual conference, from 19- 21 May demonstrated, as in previous years, the failure of New Labour in government to win the support of ordinary trade unionists across Wales, writes Andrew Price, delegate, Cardiff trades council.
13 May 2009
Wales TUC: For trade union democracy and for trade union rights!
This year's Wales TUC, meeting in Llandudno from 19-21 May, looks likely to be the last annual gathering of the conference, writes Alec Thraves, Swansea trades council delegate.
28 January 2009
Say 'no' to the Metro privateers
In the north east, Labour MPs are unhappy. They are bleating that they are having to answer difficult questions from constituents over the privatisation of Tyne and Wear Metro. Norman Hall and Elaine Brunskill report.
2 October 2008
Unison goes to arbitration - a strategy or surrender?
Not long ago, Unison was leading the charge at the TUC for a united campaign of the public-sector unions against the government's pay freeze, writes a London Unison local government member.
23 September 2008
New Labour flounders in face of economic crisis
Editorial The Trades Union Congress took place less than a month ago. Its leaders reflected their members' anger at New Labour, demanding that the government introduce a windfall tax on the utility companies...
17 September 2008
2008 Trades Union Congress: Pressure from below begins to show
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber declared at the TUC conference last week that "nationalisation is unpopular" at a time when even the Bush government has been forced to carry out one of the biggest nationalisations in history, writes Bill Mullins.
10 September 2008
Workers' anger surfaces at TUC
ON THE first day of the Trades Union Congress conference, the TUC leaders were extremely anxious to get controversial motions out of the way before Labour ministers arrived with the press, writes Bill Mullins.
2 September 2008
Trades Union Congress: Building a real leadership against the bosses
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PCS is calling for public-sector trade union unity. Birmingham Council workers on strike, April 24, photo S. O Neill |
This year's Trades Union Congress promises to be more interesting than in previous years. The main resolutions reflect issues such as the battle in the public sector over the government's pay restraint...
2 July 2008
Union support for demo to stop BNP 'festival'
Both the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union and the Midlands TUC have given their support to the anti-British National Party (BNP) protest at 9.30pm, 16 August on Denby Lane in Codnor, Derbyshire, writes Naomi Byron and Bob Severn.
14 May 2008
Wales TUC: Right wing attack on democracy
Delegates to the annual conference of the Wales TUC, meeting in Llandudno on 21-23 May, face the prospect of a right-wing offensive to undermine the democratic traditions of the trade union movement, writes Alec Thraves, Swansea trades council delegate..
7 May 2008
TUC attacks Labour on working poverty
A TIMELY report by the TUC, Hard Work, Hidden Lives, shows that New Labour politicians have much to learn about the lives of the working-class people who pushed them into power and could shove them out again...
22 April 2008
TEACHERS ACROSS England and Wales are out on the streets on 24 April, many on strike for the first time in their lives, writes Linda Taaffe, Waltham Forest NUT.
16 April 2008
'We're striking against low pay'
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Birmingham council workers strike on 5 February 2008. PCS and teachers will join them on 24 April. Photo S O'Neill |
On 24 April almost half a million public-sector workers will strike a blow against the government's policy of public-sector pay restraint, writes Jane Aitchison, civil service union PCS, Department for Work and Pensions group president, personal capacity.
1 March 2008
In addition the right-wing trade union bureaucracy is far more removed from the membership than was the case in the 1970s...
6 February 2008
Rich avoid paying £25 billion tax bill
A NEW report, sponsored by the TUC, accuses companies and rich individuals of using accounting tricks, loopholes and plain tax avoidance to get out of paying a cool £25 billion of tax each year... By Roger Shrives
17 January 2008
Feature: Building the shop stewards' movement
One of the themes of the Socialist Party's Socialism2007 weekend last November was the development of the shop stewards' movement... By Alison Hill, industrial editor of the socialist
17 January 2008
Editorial: Fight three year low pay tie-ins
German train drivers have just won an 11% wage increase. German Telecom workers on the other hand have suffered accumulated wage cuts amounting to 25%...
6 December 2007
Socialists and the trade union leaderships
THE LETTER from Tom Lloyd in issue 511 of the socialist raised some important issues about the trade union leaders, the rank and file and the left, in respect of ensuring that unions become fighting bodies...
20 September 2007
TUC conference: Workers defy Brown
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Brown dashed from the TUC to meet the hated Margaret Thatcher |
13 September 2007
TUC conference: Standing up to Brown's attacks
TUC conference: WHEN GORDON Brown spoke at the TUC, he stressed the point that most British workers have jobs, unlike in the past... By Jane James at the TUC conference
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