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ORDINARY workers offered their unique take on the meaning of May Day to the Morning Star yesterday on a thousand-strong march through Glasgow.
Anne Dean, an NHS community team manager from East Renfrewshire, said she was glad of the opportunity to gather across trade-union lines, an action made all the rarer by restrictive laws outlawing solidarity strikes.
The GMB member, who wore a Scottish Labour pin, said she had been a committed party supporter but the coming year represented a “last chance” for leader Ed Miliband to pledge legislation protecting trade-union freedoms to demonstrate and bargain collectively.
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
Campaigns against nuclear weapons on the Clyde, financial backing for arms firms and rising militarism are converging with solidarity for Palestine, as Scotland’s peace movement builds momentum ahead of the 2026 Holyrood election, says ARTHUR WEST
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
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’