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Labour came in for a roasting at TUC yesterday after it emerged that Ed Miliband would push ahead with his plans to change the union link.
Mr Miliband is set to stick by his measures even after the GMB union cut its funding of the party by £1 million and an internal investigation cleared Unite and would-be Falkirk MP Karie Murphy of vote-rigging.
The reforms would see members of affiliated unions pay party dues individually, rather than collectively.
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
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
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more
