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While the pandemic has prevented us from marching for May Day, the virus has thrown a spotlight on the importance of workers to the world we live in. Gavin Campbell looks at the history of International Workers’ Day and argues it is more relevant than ever before. Ever since May
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Agency work in the Northern Ireland Civil Service: A case study in the politics behind privatisation, de-unionisation, and the need to end precarious work. As the COVID-19 crisis exposes the scale of employment precarity, this need becomes ever more urgent. Precarious work is nothing new. Workers hovered just
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Clearer than ever, we can see that those workers who have historically been the poorest paid are some of the most important of all. Eddie Conlon argues it’s time to pay them what they deserve. The Covid-19 crisis has shone a light on those who really matter in
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New York City is the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. At the time of this interview, there have been over 2,400 deaths in NYC alone. Hospitals are overwhelmed, and an already starved healthcare system at breaking point, just weeks into the surging crisis. Anger
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The Coronavirus crisis has laid bare the lengths capitalism will go to in order to preserve its profits, putting workers, families, and wider society at serious risk. Eddie Conlon reports on workers leading the fightback the world over. “They don’t care about our health!” So says a Pittsburgh sanitation
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The pension protests in France are a powerful example of collective action. Macron’s government is in danger. For Selma Oumari, the protests go beyond this specific issue in the fight against capitalism. Since Macron’s coming to power, we have witnessed an unprecedented wave of resistance. From the gilets
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52 years ago the Memphis sanitation workers began to strike and Martin Luther King’s support for their action would later see him assassinated. Here, Stewart Smyth reflects on recent events in Memphis surrounding MLK Day. The third Monday in January, a federal public holiday, marks the memory of civil
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Stewart Smyth reports as 50,000 US autoworkers continue to take a stand for better pay and conditions, solidarity builds across the sector, and Trump keeps shtum. On September 16, nearly 50,000 United Auto Workers’ union (UAW) workers at General Motors (GM) plants across the US went on strike,
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As hundreds of workers at Wrightbus face an uncertain future, Somhairle Mag Uidhir takes a look at the background to this scandalous mismanagement by company bosses. Wrightbus, one of the North’s largest employers, has gone into administration. Management announced that roughly 1200 people will lose their jobs within the
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Small farmers are fighting back across rural Ireland and, as Brian O’Boyle argues, their campaign is crucial to the development of a ‘just transition’ towards a fairer and more ecologically sustainable economy. The Beef Plan Movement (BPM) was established in the winter of 2018 to protect the livelihoods of
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Was the defeat of the Irish Revolution an inevitable result of immutable national and sectarian divisions? In this close examination of the little-known surge in labour militancy in Tyrone, and its apex during the Caledon lockout of 1919, Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh sheds new light on the possibilities in a
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Workers have begun an occupation of the Harland & Wolff shipyard in East Belfast, taking control of the site until their jobs are safe. Cailín McCaffery reports from a gathering of hundreds who turned out to support the protest at short notice. Harland and Wolff lies on the edges of