Nearly 500 Manchester bus drivers employed by Go North West are facing the threat of being fired and rehired, with a 10% reduction in the number of drivers employed, an increase in unpaid working hours and drivers’ conditions slashed. Go Ahead is a transport multinational with rail and bus interests in UK, Germany, Norway and […]
Read more Continuity candidate Christina McAnea has been elected General Secretary of public-sector trade union UNISON following a decade of austerity. The retirement of outgoing General Secretary Dave Prentis presented an opportunity to push back against decades of conservative conciliation by the union’s leadership. In 2015, the last General Secretary election ended under a cloud. Amid allegations […]
Read more If we are to ensure that the working class does not continue to pay for the crisis of Covid and economic recession, 2021 will need to be a year of struggle like no other in recent memory. Over 100,000 lives have already been stolen from us via the government’s disastrous approach to the pandemic, and […]
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