Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
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Jumping more than my own height
PETER FROST, like most of the nation, has been watching the Tokyo Olympics
Charlotte Worthington shows off her skills at a display at Salford Quays
Young workers do want to get involved in Unison, and where that is enabled we see growth in workplace power, argue Unison North West Young Members co-chairs ZAIHERA CHAUDHRY and IAN CAULFIELD
British military spending is among the highest in the world, diverts scarce resources from far better causes and fuels international conflict. It’s time we made different choices, argues LIZ PAYNE
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Animal metaphors are testament to delight in the non-human world and what we hope and wish for human freedom, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT"
Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
MORE than six decades ago this humble scribe had his own ambitions to win a medal in the Olympics.
I was about 12 when I won the Middlesex schools high jump championship. I was about five feet six-and-a-half inches (you can do your own metric conversion if you must) and I cleared the pole at five feet seven.
It was an impressive figure, and far higher than any other boy at the stadium that day.
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