Artificial Intelligence and the threat to workers’ rights TONY BURKE looks at the issues that have led to the TUC’s special taskforce on AI and the concerns of organised workers in the sectors that are already being affected by this powerful new technology
Features | Thursday 18th Apr 2024 STUC Congress 2024 How can unions maximise wins from Britain's next government?
Friday 05th Apr 2024 Baltimore bridge collapse: how exploitation caved in on itself and led to worker deaths As the coast guard ends its search for six missing construction workers, the US laments the preventable deaths, writes NATALIA MARQUES
Friday 05th Apr 2024 Corporations bring ‘slow violence’ to millions The ruthless pursuit of profit lies behind the tragedy of Palestine as much as the global warming crisis. We should resist it resolutely, writes climate activist MAIR BAIN
Friday 05th Apr 2024 NEU Conference 2024 Take the fight to the government As the NEU meets for its annual conference, teacher and union rep ROBERT POOLE reflects on the most intense period of industrial action in his teaching career
Thursday 04th Apr 2024 NEU Conference 2024 How can children learn when they are wracked by poverty? NEU general secretary DANIEL KEBEDE warns that after 14 years of Conservative rule, fatigue, hunger and poor health are commonplace in Britain’s schools
Thursday 04th Apr 2024 An urgent need to end the brutal and bloody war of attrition in Ukraine NEU United Left explains why conference should call for a ceasefire and negotiations
Thursday 04th Apr 2024 ‘Arming of Israel must stop’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls Gaza situation a ‘genocide’ that can end if the US flow of weapons to Israel stops, while Republican Tim Walberg calls for Israel to nuke Gaza and ‘get it over quick,’ writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Thursday 04th Apr 2024 Recognising the humanity of Ethiopia An encounter with a cabbie has ROGER McKENZIE reflecting on the remarkable history of a great African nation and the importance of migrants and their skills for our beloved NHS
Thursday 04th Apr 2024 A threat to civil rights: stop the spying at borders At the Channel and on the border with Italy, the French state is authorising the use of drones across ever-wider areas, warn migrant rights charities in an open statement
Wednesday 03rd Apr 2024 Labour’s employment law reforms: a warning from history Where Keir Starmer’s pledges to the unions clash with business interests, we can look to the archives of the Blair era to see what he is likely to do, writes KEITH FLETT
Wednesday 03rd Apr 2024 Irremediable defeat: on Israel’s other unwinnable war Just as the IDF faces an impossible task in Gaza, unable to commit to an indefinite war like the local resistance fighters are, Netanyahu faces the downfall of his coalition — however the war develops, explains RAMZY BAROUD