By Richard Mellor in California Some years back in the early 2000s, my friend and fellow union activist, Roger Martinez, and I walked into our
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By Sjaan Heemskerk, UNISON delegate on TUC Young Workers’ Committee We need to talk about trans rights. Not as an optional extra, not as something
Unite emergency motion on NHS 10-year plan
Letter from Andy Ford, Unite health rep. The article on the NHS 10-Year Plan, reminded me of the emergency motion passed UNANIMOUSLY at the July
Birmingham bin strike: ‘you don’t achieve Equal Pay by driving down the wages of others’
By Birmingham Left Horizons supporters The bin workers in Birmingham are now entering their sixth month of strike action. It is an outrage that all
By Andy Ford, Unite NHS rep The news that the NHS resident doctors (formerly junior doctors) are to strike has predictably sent the Tory press,
Press release from the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign Since setting up in 2012 the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC) have worked relentlessly to
Report from delegate, Andy Ford We published the full statement by the Unite Executive Council, which was passed at the policy conference of the union
Andy Ford reports on Unite policy conference Last week, the Unite policy conference passed an important statement presented by the Executive Council. The full text
By Andy Ford, at the Unite conference Taranjit Shukra, a Unite rep in the Aerospace and Shipbuilding sector, made an excellent speech moving a resolution
The weather for the 139th Durham Gala looks like being a scorcher this year. The Gala ‘big meeting’ is the biggest labour movement event in
