Free Our Unions challenges Labour leadership candidates
The Free Our Unions campaign has made plans to renew its activity in 2020, following an organising meeting in London on 8 January. It is circulating a new statement, calling for united resistance across the labour movement to the threat of new anti-strike laws. Signatories include Michelle Rodgers, president of rail union RMT, Ian Hodson, president of the Bakers’ union, UCU general secretary Jo Grady, Labour MPs Nadia Whittome and Clive Lewis, and three RMT branches (Bakerloo, Finsbury Park, and East London Rail). The Public and Commercial Services union also backed the statement, following a...