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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The women who stood up to the fishing barons of Hull
PETER FROST is delighted that after half a century, praise and recognition are given to a group of remarkable working-class heroines
HIGH TIME: (Below) The mural painted by Belfast artist Mark Ervine and Kev Largey in early 2016 depicts Lillian ‘Big Lil’ Bilocca and is situated in a prominent position on Anlaby Road one of the main east-west arterial routes
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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
HALF a century ago in the opening months of 1968 some of the worst ever winter storms hit the Icelandic fishing grounds.
Three Hull trawlers were lost and a total of 58 crew members died.
British life was very different 50 years ago. Fish and chips was the most popular, indeed the only take-away food available. The Hull trawler fleet was the biggest fishing fleet in the world and deep sea fishing in Arctic waters was the most dangerous work anywhere on the face of the globe.
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