Are trade unions coming back into fashion?

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Why the universities strikes are about more than just a ‘measly’ pay offer

Published on: 5 February 2014

Written by: Des Freedman All articles by Des Freedman

It's not just the money, it's the direction our marketised universities are taking - enormous rewards at the top...

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Violence visited on Cambodian garment workers

Published on: 18 January 2014

Written by: Heather Stilwell All articles by Heather Stilwell

Cambodian garment workers make around $80 a month, taking on long hours of overtime in harsh conditions. Now workers...

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Now I'm a union man

Published on: 13 January 2014

Written by: Grigory Tumanov All articles by Grigory Tumanov

In both Soviet and more recent times, Russia’s trade unions have tended to be an arm of the regime, but Grigory...

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Criminal barristers strike in England and Wales

Published on: 6 January 2014

Written by: Jon Mack All articles by Jon Mack

The British government insists that the cost of Legal Aid is spiralling out of control. The facts suggest otherwise.

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South Korea: rail workers, repression and resistance

Published on: 30 December 2013

Written by: Eric Lee All articles by Eric Lee

An almost unreported strike in South Korea, which has just come to an end, epitomises how a ‘free’ market can be...

Published in: Transformation

A labor of love

Published on: 27 September 2013

Written by: Maureen Purtill All articles by Maureen Purtill

Yesterday, September 26, 2013, a mass movement succeeded in persuading Governor Jerry Brown to sign the California...

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Taking the battle to save the NHS into our communities

Published on: 26 September 2013

Written by: Matt Dykes All articles by Matt Dykes

A new TUC guide for NHS campaigners aims to help people fight to defend the NHS, as the impact of cuts and the speed...

Published in: Home

Trade unions and the construction of a specifically Tunisian protest configuration

Published on: 24 September 2013

Written by: Mohamed-Salah Omri All articles by Mohamed-Salah Omri

To understand Tunisia, one must get to grips with its labour movement. UGTT has enjoyed a continuity in history and...

Published in: Transformation

Organizing as whole people

Published on: 2 August 2013

Written by: Jane McAlevey All articles by Jane McAlevey

There are no shortcuts to building the kind of power it takes to win meaningful change. As an organizer in a county...

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A new dawn for the Unions? Frances O’Grady and economic democracy

Published on: 30 April 2013

Written by: Niki Seth-Smith All articles by Niki Seth-Smith

The TUC’s new General Secretary seems to represent real change in the 'pale, male, stale' world of British unions....

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