When you tell someone they shouldn’t wear a nice, warm, moderately expensive coat to a picket line, what you’re really saying is that nothing can improve and everyone must suffer. We must resist this stupidity, argues Chal Ravens.
Mick Lynch explains the details of the RMT’s dispute, Malcolm X’s insights into government negotiations and why Keir Starmer needs to tackle the scourge of outsourcing for all our sakes. Reporting by Polly Smythe
Four tragic migrant deaths in the Channel, a Qatar corruption scandal and the London Fire Brigade in ‘special measures’. Plus an exclusive interview with one Mr Mick Lynch of the RMT union. With Moya Lothian-McLean, Aaron Bastani and Polly Smythe
While company management are paid in the millions, and receive bonuses for failure, postal workers at Royal Mail are being treated like mud. Today they are going on strike. Aaron Bastani explains the reasons behind the strike – and how bosses at the top are out of control.
BT recorded £2 billion in profits before tax last year. Its CEO, Philip Jansen, enjoyed a salary of £3.5 million. Yet it’s now offering engineers & call centre workers a real terms pay CUT. Aaron Bastani explains why BT workers have had enough.
As inflation rises the establishment has a solution: we all need to get poorer. The alternative is for profits to fall – but that is unacceptable to the powerful. Aaron Bastani on how only unions can save us.
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