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CWU leader Dave Ward said every union must present an action plan on defying the anti-strike law
UNIONS missed their last opportunity to “change the balance of forces in the world of work” and must not do so again, Communication Workers Union leader Dave Ward warned the TUC special congress on Saturday.
Unions had a chance to turn things around after the Covid pandemic: “it was laid bare to everyone that without working-class people, society didn’t function.”
But change “never happened. Not because of the Tories. Not because of the Labour Party.
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
