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 Euro banking stitch-up
Europe’s banking union is being hailed as the big fix for the too big to fail banks. It is anything but, warns TOM GILL
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
A FEW weeks ago MEPs finally signed off the European banking union. This, we are told, is the big fix to the out-of-control banking system that caused the 2008 economic meltdown that has rocked Europe ever since.
We are also told that whereas in the US regulators and the central bank took swift action to stem banking problems, the patchwork of national interests across Europe prevented countries from forging a united front to do the same. But this is all to change with a “union” and the clean-up of banks’ books.
A new European authority will have the power to wind up or restructure failing banks — the so-called single resolution mechanism (SRM). And a common fund, financed by bank levies, will be established so that emergency cash can be injected into failing banks.
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