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2 September 2008 PCS is calling for public-sector trade union unity. Birmingham Council workers on strike, April 24, photo S. O Neill 2 September 2008
A number of left trade union leaders have recognised that the Labour Party in councils and in government is not going to stop trying to push through privatisation, writes John McInally, vice-president of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), in a personal capacity. 8 July 2008
25 June 2008
"Democracy not bureaucracy": Throughout Unison's 2008 conference there were two main talking points. One was the witch hunt taking place against Unison activists, including myself and three other Socialist Party members. The other was motion 63, entitled 'New Labour, what do we get for our money', writes Onay Kasab, Greenwich Unison (personal capacity) 28 May 2008
Feature: The government's proposal to extend the period the police can hold suspects without charge to 42 days, will be presented to parliament in the next few weeks. ANNA LUCAS explains that, far from being a step in the right direction, these new laws, and other 'anti-crime' measures over recent years, amount to a major and unjustified attack on our democratic rights. 21 May 2008
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. 29 April 2008
Editorial: The strike on 24 April by hundreds of thousands of teachers, civil servants and college lecturers shook the government... 23 April 2008
Usdaw conference: HOW DO we recruit migrant workers into the trade unions? Their recruitment is a major challenge facing the unions today. An Usdaw member writes. 16 April 2008
THE NATIONAL Union of Teachers (NUT) was the first public-sector union to decide to take strike action on Thursday 24 April over the government's pay limit policy, and now nearly 400,000 public-sector workers are due to strike... 11 March 2008
New Labour's co-ordinated attack on the public sector has not, to date, been met by co-ordinated action by the public sector unions, despite the best efforts of the left-led PCS civil servants union. PCS national executive committee member JOHN MCINALLY replies in a personal capacity to allegations published by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) that the PCS leadership blocked the possibility of public sector unity in the recent CWU postal workers' dispute. This article was first published in Socialism Today March 2008. 1 - 10 of 56 | Next > | |||||||||||||||
