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Reel News uploaded a video detailing serious allegations against senior officers in the transport union TSSA by former organiser Claire Laycock. The TSSA responded by trying to force a court injuncting against Reel News and Laycock. The injunction against the news site was thrown out, but an injunction against Laycock for breaking her Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) is still in place. Reel News reports they have been contacted by other staff who allege sexual harassment and have been silenced by gagging orders.

No faith can be placed in the unions. Even if the GMB eventually feel forced to call a strike, all experience shows that they will work to reach a deal favourable to the company, only to declare it a “win”.

News analysis, case studies and informed comment on the challenges facing UK pension schemes, from Pensions Expert, a DG Publishing service

Even as it acknowledges the previous “below cost of living pay increase” and workers’ “risking your lives and your health to keep the nation fed, seeing some colleagues sadly lose their lives to Covid”, the GMB union is attempting to force this rotten settlement on its members.

Too few leaders will arrive at Cop26 bearing any mandate for serious climate action, because hardly any have tried to get one, says Guardian columnist John Harris