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
Category: Trade Union
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
By Ian Isaac, former South Wales NUM Lodge Secretary. On Thursday, Boris Johnson claimed that we started to transition away from coal in his lifetime,
Letter from Andy Ford Unite and Unison are the largest unions in the UK, but number three (with about 600,000 members) is the GMB. GMB
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
In Mexico City, a strike by lecturers in the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is underway. We have been sent this interview by a
By Andy Fenwick, Worcester South Labour member Each year we celebrate International Worker’s Day and, in the past, this has meant a trip to my
Left Horizons extends May Day greetings to all its readers, its supporters and the whole of the labour movement. Today there will be demonstrations, rallies
