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UNISON has urged trade unionists to “turn the tide” on Thatcherism and fight for the return of sectoral collective bargaining.
Delegates at the union’s annual conference in Liverpool said that building up collective bargaining was a necessity to improve workers’ livelihoods and conditions.
Unison national executive committee member Kate Ramsden said: “The striking change in the economy is the decline in national income that is shared to people in wage packets.
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
Four decades on, the Wapping dispute stands as both a heroic act of resistance and a decisive moment in the long campaign to break trade union power. Lord JOHN HENDY KC looks back on the events of 1986
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
