Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Workers’ representation in Mexico
TONY BURKE explains how unions are progressing in the North American country
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
MEXICAN and US unions are making great strides in winning union recognition by using the rapid response clauses in the new United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) for workers — winning representation by independent trade unions for workers who want to kick out yellow unions which back employers and hold down pay and working conditions.
Shamefully, US and European companies have hidden behind the discredited Mexican labour laws to keep independent unions out of their companies in order to maintain compliant workforces undermining US workers’ wages and making it easy for US and Canadian companies to move jobs into low-tax, low-pay areas of Mexico.
Yellow unions such as the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) have a history of collusion in dismissing independent union reps and ignoring the wishes of the workforce.
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