10 wildest comments from members of Kemi Badenoch’s new shadow cabinet
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Mick Lynch round-up: best moments of the week
The RMT union general secretary has started 2023 with a bang, continuing to stump overzealous and ill-prepared interviewers and critics with calm, confident, and authentic responses.
A four day week is crucial to building an economy that respects workers’ wellbeing
‘We need to ensure that we are building a new economic model focused around workers and their wellbeing while also ensuring that they receive a decent salary.’
The government has declared war on workers
The full might of the state is being used to discipline and cheapen labour
Mick Lynch interview: RMT willing to work with Labour Party and progressives to resist anti-strike laws
“It’s an outrageous attack on our civil liberties and on democracy in our country. The trade unions are the bastion of democracy and the bastion of rights and the ability for people to organise independently”
Promised post-Brexit trade deals remain a fantasy
‘All in all, the fantasy of countries queuing up to sign trade agreements with ‘Global Britain’ and filling the gap left by Brexit remains just that – a fantasy.’
Nadine Dorries savages Rishi Sunak and accuses him of flushing Tories’ policies down the drain
“Poor Nadine Dorries was so desperate to destroy Channel Four … yet it’s not only saved but enhanced”.
Friends of the Earth takes legal action against government over new coalmine in Cumbria
“The steel industry is under no illusion that it must decarbonise if we’re to meet our climate goals”
Keir Starmer pledges to repeal any anti-strike laws brought forward by the government
“If it’s futher restrictions then we will repeal it”
Government launches new attack on right to strike
“This legislation will remove the legal immunity for strikes where unions fail to implement a minimum level of service. The strikes will be illegal.”
Huge blow for Nadine Dorries as Culture Secretary recommends ‘dropping Channel 4 privatisation’
Looks like the government wasted millions of pounds attacking a broadcaster for no reason whatsoever.