Trade union members have responded overwhelmingly and voted to support the TUC Day of Action on November 30. Across all jobs and grades public sector workers will take strike action to defend their pensions.
Unions not affiliated to the TUC, for example the Royal College of Nursing, are gearing up for a ballot early next year and will support lunch time events across the UK.
This year’s Armistice Day was probably the most meaningful I have experienced. Trade union sisters and brothers from Canada, the USA, Ireland and the UK silently marked the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month at the Workers Uniting first Congress.
The event brought together activists from the United Steelworkers Union and Unite and was an uplifting experience.
I grew up with the magazine Women’s Realm. It sat by my mum when she was knitting and sewing. I'm not sure when she found time to read it as my memory of her is that her hands were always busy.
The magazine has now marked a hundred years of publication. In the 1950s Women’s Realm had a print run of two million. Far fewer are printed today yet it remained a favourite of my mother until her death a few years ago.
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