Delegates attending this year's BFAWU conference in Staffordshire
[BFAWU/Lukasz Bemka]
THE labour movement must address a “worrying fall” in union membership nationwide, TUC assistant general secretary Kate Bell said today.
The ex-adviser to former Labour leader Ed Miliband told food workers in Staffordshire that “if we want to keep winning for workers, we have to be stronger.”
Despite last year seeing the biggest strike wave to sweep Britain in decades, total union membership — which stood at 13.2 million in 1979 — is estimated to have fallen by 200,000 to 6.7m last year.
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
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’