A red-button blockbuster
Friday, July 24th, 2020
The author has taken the events of 1913-17 described in his earlier Radical Aristocrats: London Busworkers from the 1880s to the 1980s (Lawrence and Wishart, 19...
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‘Fighting back against tyranny’
Monday, July 20th, 2020
Covid-19 has put food and agriculture workers at the heart of a national and international fight and highlighted all that’s wrong with the food system — dysfunc...
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Here’s why you should fix the apprenticeship levy, Chancellor
Thursday, July 16th, 2020
Vast sums of cash are standing idle in the Treasury, with employers seeing it as a tax, unable to access it to fund recognised apprenticeships for either their ...
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'We must demand better'
Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
The hospitality industry is storing up big problems for the future
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'Instead of a budget we have a slogan'
Wednesday, July 8th, 2020
Unite political department's Joy Johnson's take on chancellor's statement
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‘Was that it’?
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
Our ‘Build Back Better’ club acquired an application from a new aspiring member this week: welcome, Prime Minister. I hope that you will take some time to famil...
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‘PM, do not abandon working people now in their hour of need’
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
There’s rising panic being felt in homes across the country right now. The last 24 hours have seen a jobs bloodbath with over 10,000 lost.
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It’s the media stupid!
Friday, June 26th, 2020
Nationals in particular have swung even harder against Labour and the unions. Thatcher, aided by Murdoch and the others right wing owners changed the climate in...
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It’s the media stupid!
Thursday, June 25th, 2020
The difference between Corbyn and his predecessors was that the general public didn’t know much about him, other than what they were told about him by the media...
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Not just for Covid
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Each year the demand for these meals has grown. We have seen at first hand the effect of poverty, and the difficulty and sadness of parents unable to feed their...
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Johnson unlikely to ‘get it done’ by year’s end
Monday, June 22nd, 2020
Lighthizer said the timelines established in the 2015 Trade Promotion Authority law make it “nearly impossible” for Congress to consider a US-UK trade deal this...
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'Repair, recover and rebuild'
Wednesday, June 17th, 2020
Unite AGS Steve Turner: UK manufacturers are ready to lead the world
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Plaque on a Clock Tower
Friday, June 5th, 2020
I’d gone from Camden into Islington. No idea the area was once called - Copenhagen then a cattle market – the Caledonian.
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Rough sleeping disaster must be averted
Friday, June 5th, 2020
Despite the government claiming that 90 per cent of all rough sleepers had been found a bed that was never the case at all. Some, with no recourse to public fu...
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'Shoulder to shoulder'
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
Unite GS Len McCluskey: Unite stands in solidarity with protests in response to George Floyd's murder
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'A quiet revolution'
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020
CSEU explores shorter working time in post-Covid19 era
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'We cannot be silent'
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020
Workers Uniting statement on the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota
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The very best of us
Monday, June 1st, 2020
Dr Singer, a GP, had been chair of Doctors in Unite (DiU), formerly known as the Medical Practitioners’ Union (MPU). The union formed of mostly GPs celebrated i...
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