HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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Strike Map co-founder HENRY FOWLER discusses the significance of today’s joint union letter to video game giant Rockstar, demanding trade union recognition for its workers. Their conversation highlights how our movement can harness its collective power to rebuild union power across the private sector
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Since I last wrote for the Morning Star for International Women’s Day some six months ago, the case for women in science has been given a push forward.
I hosted an event to celebrate the end of the two-year tenure of Professor Lesley Yellowlees, the first woman president of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Not only was she the first woman president in the RSC’s history but also she has undertaken ground-breaking research into electron transfer reactions which are central to many diverse areas of chemistry such as solar energy conversion and catalytic processes.
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