The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
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Biden Fires Union Busters In Key Labour Relations Body
TONY BURKE says the new US president is already making a positive difference in labour relations
STANDING FIRM: Jesse Sharkey president of Chicago Teachers Union with Randi Weingarten president AFT Chicago Teachers Union Rally at a demo in October 2019
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In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
IN WHAT is another victory for trade unions in the United States, President Joe Biden has fired all ten of Donald Trump’s appointees to the Federal Service Impasses Panel — a powerful labour relations body set up to arbitrate and resolve dispute between federal unions and management.
Biden took out its Trump appointees in one swoop when he demanded the resignation of union busters from the panel. Eight resigned and two who refused were fired.
Trump’s appointees, all anti-union activists, had blocked the right of unions to organise and to undertake collective bargaining.
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