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The past year has been a difficult year for British workers. Inflation took off at a level not seen for half a century but rates of pay fell far behind, triggering a massive outpouring of industrial action. Junior doctors, nurses, transport workers – people lauded and applauded as ‘essential workers’ during the Covid pandemic – found themselves vilified by the government and the Tory press as selfish and callous militant thug. The government has hinted at new legal restrictions on trade unions and their members’ rights.
So, we enter 2024 with some trepidation; we expect the government to try to trample on workers’ rights, to palm workers off with less-than-inflation pay increases and poorer working conditions. However, 2023 has shown that British workers are mad as hell and we aren’t going to take it anymore.
Solidarity says it wasn’t ordinary workers who caused the massive wave of inflation. Solidarity says we won’t stand for workers being punished for the misdeeds of the so-called ‘great and the good.’ Solidarity is dedicated to fighting for the rights of its member in 2024 as it has done since its foundation. Solidarity has your back. Solidarity will stand by you. There will be a struggle ahead, but as the late Bob Crowe once said, ‘You may fight and lose, but if you don’t fight, you will definitely lose”. Finally let’s give a thought and prayer to mainly ordinary working people who are suffering due to war and conflicts around the Globe, to which there are over a 100. It’s always the Working Class that suffer the most in these conflicts and let’s hope Humanity prevails in the coming year. We can win in 2024.
Happy New Year. Together we are strong. Solidarity Forever.
Glen Nicklasson
President of Solidarity union
