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Oh Nick Cohen – Whose Side Are You On?

11/03/2018

Nick Cohen’s article is a disappointing and misplaced, attack on unions CONTINUE READING

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Labour’s Gain Shows Unions’ Pain – But Change Is Coming

12/09/2017

We need to be different.  We need to be daring. We need to be brave. Frankly, what’s the alternative? What’s left to lose? CONTINUE READING

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Young Core Workers Set To Save UK Unions?

3/04/2017

New work brings a real prospect of change to break through the disconnect between young workers and unions. CONTINUE READING

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Shock! Gig Economy Is Not The Only Show In Town

20/03/2017

New research shows retail trumping social care in jobs of the near future CONTINUE READING

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Signing Off, Signing In…..

12/12/2016

After 27 years, it’s time to leave the CWU. What will the future hold? CONTINUE READING

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Why Trade Unions Need the Young Pregnants (and how they can get them)

30/09/2016

Unions hold the key for ending discrimination against young pregnant workers – but can they unlock the door? CONTINUE READING

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The moral case for saving steel

7/04/2016

Politicians are seeing shades of grey when the landscape is black-and-white:The moral case for saving steel is overwhelming. CONTINUE READING

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Why #likealadydoc has undone Tory social policy

18/01/2016

Dominic Lawson’s attack on female medics exposes big gaps in Tory thinking CONTINUE READING

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Employment rights and human rights are two sides of the same coin

15/01/2016

Without human rights activists it would be much harder to be trade unionists CONTINUE READING

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Dads and Childcare – A trade union issue

1/12/2015

This isn’t about who changes the dirty nappies. No-one likes doing that. It is a question of what we are going to about this fundamentally unfair and dysfunctional situation. Cost and Access issues make a childcare crisis for Dads which hurts us all CONTINUE READING

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