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Scottish Nationalism’s Trade Union Problem

‘Conspiracy’ and ‘sabotage’ at the hand of ‘London bosses’. These are just a selection of the charges that online supporters of the SNP have laid at the feet of ASLEF, the train drivers’ union, as they embarked on industrial action which has contributed to widespread late cancellations and a much-r…

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23 May 2022
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Scottish Nationalism’s Trade Union Problem

‘Conspiracy’ and ‘sabotage’ at the hand of ‘London bosses’. These are just a selection of the charges that online supporters of the SNP have laid at the feet of ASLEF, the train drivers’ union, as they embarked on industrial action which has contributed to widespread late cancellations and a much-r…

Author: Ewan Gibbs Source: bellacaledonia.org.uk
Ewan Gibbs United Kingdom Auto industry Mining Industry
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24 Sep 2026
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No Rights, No Roasts: Workers’ organisation at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel

Editor’s Note : The interview has been edited for clarity. Since late June, workers at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel and the Refuge (the hotel’s bar and restaurant) in Manchester City Centre have been taking industrial action for a set of basic demands as members of Unite North West Service Industr…

Author: Lewis Nicholson Source: prometheus-mag.com
Lewis Nicholson United Kingdom Hospitality and tourism Unite
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12 Sep 2026
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Union leaders call on government to take action to support imprisoned Ukrainian workers

More than 20 trade union leaders have called on the government to take urgent action to support Ukrainian workers imprisoned at a nuclear plant occupied by Russian forces. An estimated 1,000 workers have been subjected to abuse and torture at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, with only 3,000 o…

Author: Daniel Green Source: labourlist.org
Daniel Green United Kingdom Ukraine War and antiwar movements
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07 Aug 2026
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New thinking about the working class and the road to socialism

Mike Phipps reviews Radicals: The Working Classes and the Making of Modern Britain , by Geoff Andrews, published by Yale University Press. One of the salient features of May’s elections – perhaps most sharply expressed in the votes for the Welsh Senedd – was the splintering of Labour’s traditional…

Author: HubMP2012 Source: labourhub.org.uk
United Kingdom TUC Geoff Andrews Strikes
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