Civil servants vote for industrial action

a joint struggle of all public sector workers will create an untenable situation in which the Tory government would be forced to grant significant concessions. PCS, NIPSA and Unite members should not be put in a situation where we undermine each other's industrial action because our strikes are not on the same day.

be reclaimed and revitalised by workers themselves, and turned into a growing and fighting movement in the best traditions of the pioneers who built it, such as Jim Larkin. This is all the more so in the current and impending economic context of the persistent cost of living crisis.

Unite in Britain and the North of Ireland has been distinguished in being a trendsetter in the trade union movement in fighting for serious pay rises. In the South of Ireland Unite has been to the fore in the construction sector in particular; taking the fight to the employers to recover what was taken from workers in the course of the last crisis – without a fight on the part of the other unions which predominated in that sector in the past.

Revitalising the

movement

Vast swathes of the private sector in Ireland, North and South, remain unorganised. The serious attack on jobs in the tech sector is a salutary lesson for any workers who thought that union organisation was unnecessary in modern workplaces.

The majority of trade union officialdom, in the South especially, remain wedded to a perspective of a return to some form of social partnership with the bosses under some future ‘union friendly’ government. This is the approach that greatly weakened the movement to begin with. Susan and likeminded officers and activists in Unite are committed to providing an alternative lead to workers based on a fighting and organising approach