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Nurses changing their PPE on Ward 5, a Covid Red Ward, at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley
ON APRIL 28 last year, the Prime Minister led the nation in a minute’s silence for key workers who had died from coronavirus.
Both the government and the BBC were careful to avoid using the term Workers’ Memorial Day or mentioning the fact that trade unionists honour those who die or are injured through work on this date every year.
Ready enough to make a show of remembering the dead, the Tories would not risk drawing any attention to the other half of the labour movement’s April 28 message: that we must fight for the living.
The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
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
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
BFAWU general secretary SARAH WOOLLEY highlights a catalogue of health and safety failings at the Mowi fish processing plant in Fife