trade unions

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Edition 42

Revealed: How the arms industry is targeting Bristol’s secondary schools

From ‘colour your own F-35’ to missile simulators, arms companies are promoting STEM careers in schools, but obscuring their role in the bloody global arms trade. Teachers, union reps, and campaign groups are pushing back

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

This Better Work

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Tech workers need unions too

Daniel Watson

People Just Do Something

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Listen: People Just Do Something, with striking teacher Nik on trade unionism’s ‘ethical gravy train’

Priyanka Raval George Colwey
Priyanka Raval, Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and George Colwey

This Better Work

Explained: What is Labour’s new Employment Rights Bill, and what does it mean for Bristolians?

In October Labour introduced the Employment Rights Bill, calling it the 'biggest upgrade to rights at work in a generation'. Why does it matter, where could it be better – and when will it make a difference to people's lives?

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie
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The Debrief

Listen: The Debrief – race riots, trade union resistance and lessons from history

Adam Quarshie Priyanka Raval George Colwey
Adam Quarshie, Priyanka Raval and George Colwey
A cardboard placard showing a swastika being thrown in a bin is raised above a city street full of people protesting

This Better Work

‘We need to face them on the streets’: how trade unions are responding to the far-right threat

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

This Better Work

‘Collective power is where it’s at’: City Academy workers celebrate strike action successes

Union members at the east Bristol secondary school have achieved most of a series of asks from the academy trust that manages it, after announcing rolling walkouts. Workers say the action has brought staff together.

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Reports

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As nurses vote for historic industrial action, is Bristol facing a winter of strikes? 

Nurses have voted for a national strike over pay for the first time ever, joining Bristol workers across multiple industries pushing for better pay and conditions as the UK goes from the cost of living crisis into recession.

Alex King
Alex King

Features

How trade unions are responding to the Avonmouth tragedy

Trade union reps have swung into action since the tragedy at the Wessex Water plant, while tributes poured in for the four people who died.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Ideas and Action

Collective re-organisation

In Bristol, people are turning to alternative unions like ACORN and the IWW to get their voices heard on critical issues such as housing and workplace inequality.

Jenny Stringer

City

Library staff furious about written exam ‘selection process’

A new requirement for all Bristol library assistants to undergo formal written exams as part of a 'selection process' for their own jobs has left staff angry and offended, according to emails leaked to the Cable.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson