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BRITISH and US bus workers have joined forces to tackle rights abuses perpetrated by one of the countries’ largest transport companies.
National Express will have to face both members of British union Unite and the US Teamsters union at its shareholders’ annual meeting in Birmingham today.
“An attack against the Teamsters in America is an attack against Unite,” Unite general secretary Len McCluskey told a press briefing yesterday.
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says