The newspapers are in a frenzy, but we’ll only see real disruption if British hauliers act en masse against fuel prices, says Gregor Gall

New management techniques to supposedly cut costs are making public service workers’ lives a misery, says Gregor Gall

From postal workers to policemen, public sector workers have been linking their demands for decent working conditions with the quality of the services they provide and begun to create new alliances. They still need more imaginative thinking, says Gregor Gall, but does this approach provide a way forward for trade unions generally, in the private sector as well as the public?

Gregor Gall argues that it is time the Scottish left began to think about how it can work together again. To find ways forward he looks at examples from across Europe.

British employment specialist Gregor Gall looks to the continent to analyse how trade unionists there have been dealing with assaults on their conditions.