The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, has been deeply disturbed to hear of a savage attack on
trade union activists in Baghdad as part of an ongoing campaign of intimidation against the country's trade unions.
Not exact matches
The concern comes
in the wake of complaints by environmental
activists and
trade unions that this deal and others will erode standards for food, work and industry.
The following statement was published yesterday on Revitalise Scottish Labour, the website associated with the
trade union left
in Scotland and Scottish Labour
activists involved
in the Campaign for Socialism
The conference brought together
trade union activists, anti-cuts campaigners, young people, students and pensioners
in order to build the widest possible support for the strikes.
The following statement was published yesterday on Revitalise Scottish Labour, the website associated with the
trade union left
in Scotland and Scottish Labour
activists involved
in the Campaign for Socialism Today's Scottish Executive (SEC) was, to put it mildly, something out of the ordinary.
We need to be encouraging
trade union activists to get involved
in the Labour Party.
Andy Newman is Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for Chippenham, and an
activist in the GMB
trade union.
It brings together the new generation of left
activists, working and discussing politics online, with the veteran institutions of
trade unions and many more
in between.
In the first years of the twenty - first century, the paper has carried contributions from Uri Avnery, John Pilger, Green
activist Derek Wall, ex-Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, Green MP Caroline Lucas, former MP George Galloway (Respect), the cartoonist Martin Rowson, and many
trade union general secretaries.
I remember being at Warwick
in 2008 where our National Policy Forum (local
activists and
trade union members) met with all the frontbenchers and special advisers to agree on the manifesto and it was clear that we had become timid, institutional and unambitious.
In the beginning, only a small clutch of dedicated
activists,
trade unions and charities raised the red flag against the now hated EU - US
trade deal, TTIP.
The solution, the report concludes, can only be
in the formation of new, more broad - based, inclusive coalitions and communities that take account of the diversity of civil society and the strengths of different parts of civil society, such as CSOs, community groups, online
activists, the new protest movements, faith - based groups and
trade unions.
, held on Sunday (11) at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, brought together
activists and academics from more than 20 social movements, organizations and
trade unions to discuss some of the central themes of the struggle for social justice
in combating climate change.