Trade unions

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All together now by Heather Wakefield (January 2010)

With public sector spending cuts the new orthodoxy, the trade union movement needs to mobilise a stronger counter-attack, argues Heather Wakefield of public sector union Unison

Unions see green light on climate by Chris Baugh (January 2010)

Chris Baugh explains how the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union and other UK trade unions are beginning to respond to the urgency of climate change with an agenda of ‘just transition’

A fight worth having by Kate Ferguson (October 2009)

Kate Ferguson interviews Ian Terry, a 23-year-old wind turbine worker involved in the occupation of the Vestas factory on the Isle of Wight

Public service reform ... but not as we know it! by Hilary Wainwright (April 2009)

How do you save money, improve services, involve the unions and strengthen democratic control at the same time? In Newcastle, they have come up with an alternative to privatisation that achieves all these objectives, as Hilary Wainwright reports

We are woman, we are strong ... by Hilary Wainwright (March 2009)

Hilary Wainwright on the vital role women played in the miners’ struggle

Look back in anger by Granville Williams (March 2009)

In the introductory chapter to Shafted: The Media, the Miners’ Strike and the Aftermath, Granville Williams revisits the way the media covered the strike

Dole not coal by Huw Beynon (March 2009)

Twenty-five years after the start of the year-long miners’ strike against pit closures, fewer than half of the jobs lost in mining areas have been replaced. Huw Beynon reports on the common experience of Durham and south Wales, two of the coalfields that were worst hit by the closure programme

Unionising your workplace by Patrick Smith (December 2008)

A ten-step guide to workplace organisation from scratch. By Patrick Smith

The fight for the NUS by Hind Hassan (October 2008)

In trying to push through a reform package that the Guardian has called a ‘Blairite revolution’, the National Union of Students’ Labour leadership is putting the NUS on a path to self-destruction, says executive member Hind Hassan

After the party by Matt Wrack (September 2008)

In 2004 the Fire Brigades Union disaffiliated from the Labour Party. FBU general secretary Matt Wrack explains what it has meant for the union politically

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