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Striking Liverpool dockers protesting at the conference. Their union Unite's failure to make much of this protest or mobilise support for it is indicative of a wider political passivity The author first wrote a much shorter summary for Labour Left Internationalists, which he then expanded for this report: see here.

The shadow communities secretary told the Labour Party conference that housing was not a market but a ‘fundamental human right’.

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has raised the alarm over the alleged witch-hunt against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) by the Nigerian government over non-submission of its audited financial returns for over five years. While dismissing the claims that ASUU had not submitted its audited financial returns to the Registrar of Trade Unions for over five years as required by the law, NLC insisted that the union had submitted all its financial reports up till 2021.

The NLC has raised alarm over the alleged witch-hunt against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) by the Federal government.

British trade union membership is currently around 6.5 million, but was more than double that in the late 1970s, when unions worked together to bring the UK to a standstill.

For ongoing strikes today to have any prospect of success, unions must carefully balance industrial action with negotiation to maintain public support.

CUNA wrote Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., asking him to reconsider his Improving Cybersecurity of Credit Union Act, a bill that would give NCUA authority over

The strength of the government and public support can make a crucial difference.

Hot on the heels of the law allowing use of agency workers for strike-breaking, Tory leadership candidate Liz Truss has proposed: • Action within thirty days of taking office to introduce the “minimum service requirement” outlawing all-out strikes in certain sectors that the Tories pledged in their 2019 manifesto for transport – but extended to other sectors too.

A law introducing state-sanctioned strike breaking is the latest sign that regulation only applies to workers. For business interests, anything goes