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2 September 2008

Trades Union Congress: Building a real leadership against the bosses

PCS is calling for public-sector trade union unity. Birmingham Council workers on strike, April 24, photo S. O Neill

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...

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9 July 2008

RMT conference discusses crisis of political representation

Delegates attending the rail union RMT's Annual General Meeting voted unanimously to call a conference on political representation and to encourage the union's regional councils to do the same, writes Dave Reid.

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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.

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25 June 2008

Union news in brief

RMT's Bob Crow attacks the 'three Tory parties': IN THE debate on public ownership at the RMT rail union annual general meeting (AGM), general secretary Bob Crow said: "The reality is that we have three Tory parties in Britain now - the Tory party, the Labour party and the LibDems, writes Dave Reid.

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3 June 2008

Come to the national shop stewards network conference

Time to fight back, time to organise: Millions of public-sector workers have had their pay frozen when real inflation is rocketing, writes Rob Williams, Unite convenor, Swansea Visteon plant, personal capacity.

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28 May 2008

Johnson's Prince of Darkness

LONDON'S NEW Tory mayor Boris Johnson has appointed a ruthless private equity businessman as his "first deputy mayor" in charge of transport, writes Roger Shrives.

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28 May 2008

Industrial news in brief

Tube cleaners ballot for action, Insult to postal workers: Cleaners working for private contractors on London Underground are balloting for strike action over pay and conditions...

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21 May 2008

Reasons to be cheerful about the trade unions

Trade Unions have been reading their own obituaries since workers first combined, writes Chris Baugh, Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) assistant general secretary, personal capacity.

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14 May 2008

What will Boris Johnson mean for London?

After the 1 May elections: BORIS JOHNSON'S election as Mayor of London capped a string of successes for the Conservatives in the 1 May local elections, indicating that a Tory victory in the next general election is a serious possibility, writes Neil Cafferky.

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7 May 2008

May Day marches

STRIKING WORKERS from Shelter led London's May Day march, followed by members of rail union RMT, local trades councils and Turkish and Kurdish groups...

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