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How many steel crises does it take to get this government to realise it needs a proper long-term industrial strategy? That is the question many of us were asking this week as ministers were hauled in front of the House of Commons yet again to explain what support the...

The current crisis in United Kingdom steelmaking has exposed the ‘northern powerhouse’ for what it is truly is – a sham. Behind the government’s claims to be creating a ‘march of the makers’, rebalancing the economy away from financial services towards manufacturing...

It is no coincidence the Tories decided to hold the second reading of the trade union bill as the Trades Union Congress took place in Brighton yesterday. It is a trap and to be honest I am concerned we will fall right into it. This is a bad piece of legislation...

Transforming trade unionism in the modern world When I became a trade union member a month shy of my 16th birthday in 1989 in Rosyth Royal Dockyard, every one of the other 150 or so apprentices joined too. We were entering a workplace that had 6,000 employees where...