SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
GIVEN the immense suffering caused by the coronavirus pandemic, it is absolutely appalling that some companies see the crisis as an opportunity to be exploited for financial gain.
Across the country, unscrupulous bosses from Heathrow airport to Go North West in Manchester, and the Jacobs Douwe Egberts site in Banbury and British Gas nationwide, have used the pandemic as a smokescreen to implement disgraceful “fire-and-rehire” tactics in which salaries and terms and conditions are torn to shreds.
In Leicester, we experienced this with SPS Technologies, an aircraft parts manufacturer, in my constituency of Leicester East.
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Almost half of universities face deficits, merger mania is taking hold, and massive fee hikes that will lock out working-class students are on the horizon, write RUBEN BRETT, PAUL WHITEHOUSE and DAN GRACE



