The politics of being off sick
THE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS of the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the stark inadequacies of the...
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Category: UK
Why Unite members should oppose Heathrow expansion
The environmental argument against a third runway at Heathrow is clear. Emissions from aviation already rose by thirty-two percent between 2013 and 2018. Currently they account for two percent of global carbon emissions and this amount is projected to triple by 2050 if no action is taken
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Our Lives are Worth More than Junk Mail!
While the ballot is on hold, postal workers’ health concerns have come to the fore as offices in Bridgewater and Alloa walk out
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Immigration and the Trade Unions
The recent election of a Conservative government, with one of the most openly racist Prime Ministers and Cabinet in living memory, the victory of an openly xenophobic and anti-immigrant Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum, and the rise of racist and xenophobic movements in Britain and throughout the world, have all raised questions as to how the working class movement should respond to what appears to be growing support within the working class for restrictions on immigration
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Workers Must Take Control of the Lockdown
The spectacular dithering and delay of Boris Johnson’s Tory government in the face of the unfolding Coronavirus pandemic becomes starker by the day. Ten years of Tory cuts to the NHS have resulted in a chronic lack of hospital beds, a severe shortage of testing and protective kits and insufficient respirators. Next came the stunningly stupid decision not to test health workers that self-isolate with the symptoms. Now we are faced with an equally damaging act of allowing non-essential work to continue. This is a recipe for the virus to spread uncontrollably throughout the population.
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Emergency Covid-19 Motion: Lambeth Unison
Lambeth Unison Branch Committee met on 17 March, some online a few in person, to discuss our response to the Coronavirus crisis. The following motion was passed unanimously, though there were many additional points and acute problems of under-preparedness and poor (or no) advice from Government, the Labour Council and Unison and the TUC raised in the discussion.
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The Impending Catastrophe And How To Combat It
In the first weeks of the new decade the world has been shaken by the emergence of a global...
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School closures: skeleton service or community organisation?
The vulnerable will suffer most in any social – and economic – lockdown. We must insist schools apply a broad definition to the terms of which students and families are ‘vulnerable’ based on need, not the dictates of an uncaring, neoliberal government seeking to protect business over workers and the poor.
Read More Postal workers smash reballot – but should the coronavirus crisis block action?
To the surprise of many, when CWU leaders Dave Ward and Terry Pullinger announced the ballot result to members on Facebook,[2] they said they would not set dates for a strike, explaining that “it’s not the right moment for us at this particular point to take industrial action”. Since then Terry has said “we’ve got no choice in the matter”, citing the “unprecedented circumstances” of the coronavirus crisis.
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Royal Fail: postal workers get little coronavirus help from bosses
In the ballot result announcement on Tuesday, Dave Ward and Terry Pullinger reported on growing anger in the workforce against lack of management action to protect staff against coronavirus. Royal Mail have done little to provide gloves, hand sanitiser or sympathy despite the vulnerability of staff who work among the public every day.
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CWU: Vote Yes and prepare to fight
What we do now will determine whether we have jobs and a postal service in the future – vote yes and prepare for the fight of our lives.
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Royal Mail takes posties on a “journey” to downsize our jobs and conditions
Royal Mail’s promises don’t matter if they succeed in busting the union. That’s where 120,000 postal workers come in
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