GLOBAL unions united in protest today as they developed plans to take on multinational companies Tenaris and Ternium as their billionaire boss was charged with bribery.
Paolo Rocca is being investigated for his involvement over allegations of payments made to an Argentinian government official through the company in 2008.
Tenaris, a leading supplier of tubes to the energy industry, gave "its full support for its chairman and CEO” soon after the news broke.
Enduring myths blame print unions for their own destruction – but TONY BURKE argues that the Wapping dispute was a calculated assault by Murdoch on organised labour, which reshaped Britain’s media landscape and casts a long shadow over trade union rights today
On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR



