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Celebrating the influence of player unions in US sport
TweetMartin Tiedemann brilliantly extolled the virtues of the Green Bay Packers’ democratic and transparent ownership model on these pages last month, and over on Next Left, Sunder Katwala’s excellent...
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The NUJ is the solution to the sickness at News International
TweetRuwan Subasinghe is a lawyer at an international trade union federation If bankers and politicians previously headed the public’s vilification rankings, journalists (and their employers) are now...
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The coalition is failing to tackle youth unemployment
TweetThe ONS’s latest unemployment figures released this month prompted much huffing and puffing from the usual suspects and beyond. However, things were somewhat different this time round, with the...
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Billionaires v millionaires maybe, but the NBA players’ resolve is amazing
TweetIn a year that has already witnessed near economic armageddon, inspiring revolutions and catastrophic natural disasters, unprecedented labour strife in the professional sports industry has made it...
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Unions and Occupy continue to build their wary alliance
Tweet . When the Adbusters-inspired Occupy Wall Street campaign kicked off seven months ago in New York City, no one could have expected it to trigger the creation of 700 similar protest camps around...
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Comment: Cricketers must act against the international calendar’s effects on...
Tweet . When England announced their squad for the recently concluded One Day International series against the West Indies, they must have done so with a combined dose of sadness and vitriol. Kevin...
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How lawful is a General Strike?
Tweet Perhaps the most poignant moment of the recent #Oct20 under-reported anti-austerity protest came when Unite’s Len McCluskey asked those present at the Hyde Park rally for a show of hands in...
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Comment: Qatar 2022: There should be no World Cup without workers’ rights
TweetIt is unclear what the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, discussed with David Cameron at No.10 Downing Street last week, but the tiny Gulf state’s horrendous labour rights record...
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Austerity knows no bounds in Greece
TweetWorkers’ rights are being rolled back further in Greece as austerity deepens While last week’s announcement that Greece entered deflation for the first time in 45 years was not entirely...
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Trade unionists around the world should lend their voices to the resistance...
TweetAt noon today the 240,000 member strong Turkish Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (KESK) began a two day strike in response to “state terror implemented against mass protests across the...
View ArticleTory trade union proposals will violate international law
‘Why is the strike, or, better perhaps, the potentiality of a strike, that is, of an event which of necessity entails a waste of resources, and damage to the economy, nevertheless by general consent...
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