TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about

THE week before Christmas, Amazon workers at facilities across the US, organised by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), took on the world’s most profitable third-party logistics corporation by walking off the job by the hundreds.
Although this pre-holiday strike represented a minority of the Amazon workforce, it represented the largest strike against Amazon in US history.
Amazon’s profits keep breaking records, even within the context of a logistics industry that as a whole is experiencing a difficult freight market due to an oversupply of truck capacity.

In the conclusion of his two-part article, PETER MERTENS reveals that while global military spending hits $2.7 trillion with European arms company profits soaring 1,000%, €1 invested in hospitals creates 2.5 times more jobs than weapons

