A while back I had the honour of meeting some trade unionists from different Iraqi unions at a UK union event. I remember being extremely impressed by their bravery in trying to build a labour movement against the odds. One had received death threats simply for being a woman in a high profile position, another …

Dress down Tuesday, hurrah, courtesy of the TUC! Pity I’m normally fairly lax on this front anyway. I tend to start a new job looking fairly dapper (I invariably have to buy proper trousers and shoes for the first time in ages), but then as I start spotting more and more colleagues in elements of …

Sometimes being a union activist can seem a bit like being a living history exhibit – especially when you’re something of a n00b sitting in a branch meeting with all the unfathomable age-old rules and age-old grudges. Anyway, it’s nice to know, via this missive from the future published in The Morning News, that giant-mega-space-robots …