by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The British TUC meets in Manchester for its annual congress, 150 years after its founding meeting in the Mechanics Institute of the same city. ...
by Gordon Martin, Scottish Regional Organiser, RMT • Following several months of will-they-or-won’t-they, the SNP Scottish Government delivered the news on Thursday 24 May that they wouldn’t ...
by Colin Turbett • Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard reiterated his party’s recent commitment to bring ScotRail back into public hands at April’s STUC conference in Aviemore. A press ...
by Ken Ferguson • The successful outcome of the battle to protect the green jobs and skills at the BiFab engineering yards is a rare and highly welcome victory for workers and their unions. It is ...
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The strike by ScotRail conductors/guards against the Abellio bosses’ mad dash towards Driver Only Operated (DOO) trains is potentially a ...
by Voice Reporter • Rail union the RMT confirmed on 7 June that members voted overwhelmingly for both strike action and industrial action short of a strike over the extension of Driver Only ...
by a ScotRail driver • The RMT union is balloting its ScotRail conductor members over Abellio’s refusal to rule out the extension of Driver Only Operation (DOO) on services currently worked by ...
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The season of major trade union conferences is kicking off, amidst the cacophony of barefaced lies about the Tories’ £7.20 for over-25s ...
NUJ Scottish Organiser Paul Holleran surveys the media scene While the business of publishing newspapers is still a profitable pastime there is no denying it is at a crossroads and depending on ...
NUJ Scottish Organiser Paul Holleran outlines the union’s campaign on the future of the BBC The NUJ has launched a new campaign with the sexy title of ‘The BBC – Love It Or Lose ...