By Richard Mellor in California Workers at the Mondelez/ Nabisco bakery in Portland, Oregon, went on strike on August 10th and are now entering their fourth
Category: Trade Union Archive
Unite the union, the largest affiliate to the Labour Party and the largest single source of its funds, has a new general secretary. Sharon Graham
Andy Ford spoke to North West RMT organiser Low paid railway station and accommodation cleaners on the Merseyrail contract have been striking for better pay,
By Richard Mellor in California Richard Trumka, head of the US trade union federation, the AFL/CIO, died last week. In answer to the effusive praise
The selection of a new General Secretary for Unite the union in 2021 is a hugely significant event for the whole labour movement. Unite has
In many editorials in Left Horizons, we have argued that the labour and trade union movement is sharply divided between those at the top and
By John McInally One hundred years ago this month, the British working class were given a sharp lesson on the nature and role of the
By John Bryan – Camberwell and Peckham CLP – retired ex-building worker and blacklisted trade unionist. International Workers’ Memorial Day (April 28th) was started in
By David Niven, PCS – Defra NW & Cumbria Branch In response to Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s November announcement of a public sector pay freeze to
GMB press release British Gas doesn’t give a toss for either customers or staff and that being is shown today by the mass sackings of
