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Britain needs a pay rise
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As this chart from the Resolution Foundation…Read more…
‘From crisis to crisis’
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‘Truly in tatters’
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The UK Budget does little for hard pressed households in the short-term, and even less for the long-term health of the economy.
Let’s look at the issues that matter to UNISON members.
Austerity is…Read more…
Scotland needs economic as well as political power
While political structures are important, what really matters is the distribution of wealth and power.
The Scottish Labour Party conference tomorrow will debate a motion on federalism that takes…Read more…
Cyberunions Podcast Episode 90: Identity politics lacks class
Download Ogg Ogg lite MP3 Torrent Intro (0:28) Swimming in the lake at 8 C/ 46 F The site will be moving and design changes to cyberunions.org and it will be more mobile friendly Steel plant in Germany and worker perspective with a more internationalist perspective Reminds of Capital Moves: The RCA story Passing of […]Read more…
Cyberunions Podcast Episode 90: Identity politics lacks class
Download Ogg Ogg lite MP3 Torrent Intro (0:28) Swimming in the lake at 8 C/ 46 F The site will be moving and design changes to cyberunions.org and it will be more mobile friendly Steel plant in Germany and worker perspective with a more internationalist perspective Reminds of Capital Moves: The RCA story Passing of […]Read more…
Cyberunions Podcast Episode 90: Identity politics lacks class
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Intro (0:28)
* Swimming in the lake at 8 C/ 46 F
* The site will be moving and design changes to cyberunions.org and it will be more mobile friendly
* Steel plant in Germany and worker perspective with a more internationalist perspective
* Reminds of Capital Moves: The RCA story
* Passing of Fidel and the end of an era
* Transition from Fidel to Trump… is it the end of Neoliberalism? Trump ‘Saving jobs in Indiana’
Main Topic (10:42)
* Threatening rise of fascism
* Giving out This Machine kills Fascists
* The big fight of identity and class politics
* Liberals have defended identity politics and occused people bringing up class as white privilege
* SDP and Communist parties fought each other and the splits let the right come to power, we need to make sure that does not happen again
* Jacobin magazine historical map of the left in the US (PDF)
* Highlighting The Guardian newspaper covering identity politics well but not showing up to a strike
* Identity politics alone seems simple to solve but it has potential for large repercussions, LGBTQ rights comng about in the US at least is great but not everyone is on board with it where class issue is missed.
(19:45)
* Capitalists don’t care about LGBTQ but they will exploit the split of the working class
* Gains in identity politics is more commonly found in the upper class
* In the film “Pride” Gay and Lesbians support the miners
* Shows the struggle of breaking down divisions it will take us a long time but we will grow and become stronger
* Liberals stop blaming voters, instead blame the movements that failed
* We need to hold the line and defend identity politics but need to bring class into it
* The backlash is it left out half of the equation
* Socialist and revolutionary groups are seeing quite an uptick in membership and interest
* When did we ever have democracy
* Scotland shows great signs of positive changes in working class
* The wierdness factor is still there, president is not held to conflict of interest laws
* In a bizarre state of mind of want to know what happens but we are not a game of Sims
* Spent life fighting Neoliberalism and now it is like oh shit neoliberalism might be better
* Capitalist will they oddly be in a place of ‘saving us’ in certain parts i.e. capitalist supporting LGBTQ
* Keep in mind there are splits in capitalism too
* A wait and see that we don’t want to wait and see
* The passing of Fidel thinking back on the legacy of Fidel
Tech (39:30)
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Cyberunions Podcast Episode 90: Identity politics lacks class
Download Ogg Ogg lite MP3 Torrent Intro (0:28) Swimming in the lake at 8 C/ 46 F The site will be moving and design changes to cyberunions.org and it will be more mobile friendly Steel plant in Germany and worker perspective with a more internationalist perspective Reminds of Capital Moves: The RCA story Passing of […]Read more…
Fujitsu hammer blow
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Building a productive economy
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Unite Policy Conference 2016 – Monday’s business
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23 June: five key questions on the EU referendum
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The article 23 June: five key questions on the EU referendum first appeared on the…Read more…
#APD cut is lose, lose – for public services and for climate action
#WED2016 It is World Environment Day on Sunday 5 June. A good day for the Scottish Government to cancel plans to cut Air Passenger Duty.
UNISON Scotland today urged the Scottish Government to prioritise protecting public services by axing its plans to first cut APD by 50%, then eventually abolish the tax.
In our response to the Scottish Government consultation on APD, closing today, weRead more…
UNISON welcomes IPPR Scotland report ‘Scotland pay packets down 12% in real-terms since 2009’
IPPR report confirms UNISON’s view that falling real terms pay has had a considerable negative effect on the economy.
The IPPR report which is published today (23 March 2016) confirms that, pay in Scotland has fallen in real-terms by 12%, with private sector pay falling further than public sector pay. It also confirms that had pay risen in line with expectations, the Scottish economy would be £Read more…
“It’s the economy, stupid” Sunday Night Live 31 Jan 2016
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