UCS work-in 50th anniversary report
Given that the work-in started fifty years ago in June 1971, we are pleased to showcase the work of Derek
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Building back better: Fairer and greener for people not profit
Roz Foyer outlines the STUC agenda for the coming period and how it is working to gain these goals. Across
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Rebooting and rebuilding unions’ fighting capacity
Pat Rafferty sees much opportunity to strengthen union organisation amid the challenges of COVID. The last year has been one
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Neither clapping nor words of acclaim for public servants pay their bills, rent and mortgages
Cat Boyd eyes opportunities to put class before constitution in the coming period. If there’s anything good to say about
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Firefighting doesn’t require firefighting problems but instead sustained and strategic investment
Denise Christie says our fire and rescue service requires the Scottish Government to make a decision turn. The COVID-19 pandemic
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A year unlike any other: pressure in the prison, correctional and secure psychiatric system
Phil Fairlie says the time for debts to be paid to public service workers has now arrived. Following a year
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Navigating through COVID, Brexit and the Scottish Parliament 2021 elections
Mary Senior surveys the changing landscape to identify the countless challenges in higher education. In unprecedented times, last March the
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Coming out stronger – coming out fighting
Mike Kirby reports that UNISON Scotland is meeting the challenge of organising online. Over the last year, UNISON branches across
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The COVID crisis shows Scotland requires constant connectivity
Craig Anderson shows how the CWU union takes a class position on communication. The COVID pandemic has changed how we
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Making devolution work for workers on injuries and illnesses
Mark Griffin explains the rationale behind his Scottish Employment Injuries Advisory Council Bill. The testimonies I heard from the women
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The People’s Recovery: A different track for Scotland’s economy
Roz Foyer introduces the Scottish Trades Union Congress’s response to the COVID calamity. We face the biggest economic crisis in
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Poems penned during the pandemic
Last issue, we featured two poems from history teacher, David McKinstry, who had been engaged in home schooling and dealing
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Failing the test: the calamity of COVID-19 testing in Scotland
Lilian Macer excoriates the Scottish Government’s approach as inadequate to deal with pandemic we are facing. The World Health Organisation
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Keep your 2m distance during the pandemic
Andrew Watterson, Rory O’Neill, Janet Newsham and Hilda Palmer critique the carelessness and incompetence of government policy and practice The
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Pandemic panic of the streets of Dundee, Dunfermline and Dumbarton from cruel continuing cuts
Kate Ramsden argues we must take political advantage of the pandemic to rebuild our local public services Covid-19 has highlighted
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Don’t throw our members under the bus
Pat Rafferty looks at the case of ADL to argue that only government action can secure green jobs and help
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Building back better in the ‘Dear Green Place’ with free buses and trains
Ellie Harrison makes the case for getting Glasgow to go green and free in its transport system September 2020 sees
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How green is the EU recovery plan?
Molly Scott-Cato assesses the pros and cons of efforts in Europe to make a green just transition The mantra ‘Build
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Uniting and fighting – how unemployed workers can be collectively organised
Dave Sherry recounts previous examples of campaigns to mobilise the unemployed as part of a wider labour movement struggle The
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Poems from Lockdown
Culture and creativity during Covid: teaching and learning at home David McKinstry is a teacher – see his biographical details
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Money begets money: how the Tories helped the rich get richer during the COVID-19 crisis
Prem Sikka dissects the Westminster governments series of economic and financial initiatives On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organisation
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Fighting for fairness in COVID-19 crisis: workers and unions provide the sensible solution
Roz Foyer reports on what’s been happening in Scotland’s workplaces The STUC supports the Fair Work Convention’s vision that by
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Crisis within a crisis: the failure of private sector care
Stephen Smellie charts a way out of the crisis in both short- and medium-terms Thousands have died in care homes
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Domestic abuse and COVID-19
Megan Gordon reports that a bad situation is getting worse – so much more funding is needed Imagine that you
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Coronavirus crisis: underfunding, restructuring, privatisation and fragmentation at the heart of the crisis in Holyrood and Westminster
Allyson Pollock and Louisa Harding-Edgar say there is also an opportunity to end the neo-liberalism that got us to this
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COVID 19: government failures counter-balanced by solutions from unions and NGOs
Andrew Watterson says unions must be part of the post-crisis economic and social reconstruction Pandemics cannot be avoided but COVID-19
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From sidelined to significant: how retail workers became key workers in our communities
Stewart Forrest says it should not have taken a crisis to recognise the crucial role of retail workers When the
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