Christmas came early for a thousand BMW agency workers yesterday after the Unite union wrapped up a deal for permanent contracts with bosses.
Seven hundred agency workers will be given the good news in the next week and handed the contracts in the new year.
Three hundred more will be recruited into the company by 2016.
SHARON GRAHAM reflects on the lessons of Murdoch’s confrontation with print workers – and argues that, in an age of AI, automation and net zero, only early organisation, collective power and planning can stop history repeating itself
As fossil fuels have had their day, JOSIE MIZEN makes it clear that it is now the government’s responsibility to initiate the transition to alternative employment in a manner that is organised, efficient and effective
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down


