Summary
ALAUNCH pad for an unlikely General Election victory for Labour, or a knockdown dragged-out fight over jobs and the economy? The first meeting of the Trades Union Congress in Liverpool for 103 years gets underway this weekend and promises to be "interesting". The prospect of huge cuts in public spending, anger over the soft treatment of bankers, and rising unemployment are going to make it difficult for the Liverpool Congress to be the show of unity that Gordon Brown would like.
As well as those national issues there are a number of industrial matters on Merseyside that are likely to be raised inside and outside the BT Convention Centre including the future of the car plant at Ellesmere Port and the Copperas Hill postal depot.See the full content of this document
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Breaking the Link?
The latter is of most concern to the Communication Workers' Union on Merseyside and their branch secretary Mark Wa...
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