Published on 23rd October 2018. At this stage, The Clarion can’t report anything much about the Glasgow “women’s strike” by thousands of home care, cleaning and catering workers that you won’t get from the GMB and from the bourgeois press. We do however want to note the strike and express our solidarity. We hope to find opportunities for practical supportContinue reading “Women’s strike shakes Glasgow, male workers take solidarity action”
Category Archives: Trade Unions
Matt Wrack: Labour must vow to scrap all anti-union laws
This article, by FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack, was orginally published on Labour List, in September 2018. Find it here. Our Tory anti-union laws represent one of the foremost constraints preventing working-class people from winning better conditions at work and making gains in wider politics. That’s why at this year’s Labour Party conference I’ll beContinue reading “Matt Wrack: Labour must vow to scrap all anti-union laws”
Labour must get the anti-union laws off workers’ backs!
By Mark Osborn, NEU rep at City of London Academy (Southwark). Published on 23rd October 2018. The National Education Union at CoLA took three days of strike action in March. We took one day of action on the first week, two days the next week and the union told our Head we would be outContinue reading “Labour must get the anti-union laws off workers’ backs!”
Unite conference demands repeal of all anti-union laws
Published on 15th August 2018. Last month’s Unite the Union policy conference voted for a motion committing Unite to campaign for the repeal of all anti-union laws – not just the 2016 Trade Union Act – and their replacement by strong legal rights for workers and unions, including a strong right to strike.
IWGB supports call to repeal anti-union laws, establish strong right to strike
This statement was originally published on the IWGB website. Find it here. The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is backing the call supported by a growing number of trade union branches and organisations for repeal of all anti-trade union laws and their replacement with positive legal rights for workers and unions to organiseContinue reading “IWGB supports call to repeal anti-union laws, establish strong right to strike”
Arguing for the right to strike
By Ali Crabtree, Prospect June 3rd saw over six hundred members of the trade union Prospect descend upon the ICC in Birmingham for our biennial conference, as the elected representatives of 140k members. Prospect advertises itself as a union for professionals, scientists, engineers and managers and represents workers predominantly across Energy, Research, Communications, Defence andContinue reading “Arguing for the right to strike”
“A Corbyn government must free our unions” – motion to Unite policy conference
The following motion has been submitted to Unite the Union’s policy conference (2-6 July 2018, Brighton).
Matt Wrack and Shen Batmaz on why Labour must repeal all anti-union laws
Two leading labour movement activists, FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack and McStrike organiser Shen Batmaz, spoke to Free Our Unions about why the demand to repeal the anti-union laws is so important.
Free Our Unions 