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FRANCES O’GRADY positioned the TUC to back a second Brexit referendum yesterday, which rail union RMT warned could lead to “civil unrest on our streets.”
The TUC general secretary warned that Britain was at “crisis point,” with the government failing to protect jobs, workers’ rights and peace in Northern Ireland.
She said the TUC “respected” Britain’s decision to quit the European Union, but Theresa May should “take her deal on the terms of Brexit and put it back to the people.”
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
Our members face daily abuse, being spat at, sometimes even deadly assaults, and employers fail to take the issue seriously despite the increasing danger, writes RMT general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY