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Opportunity Knocks

Unions in Scotland have a chance to make sure the change in Westminster shifts attitudes in Holyrood, writes UNISON Scottish Secretary Lilian Macer. Where does the recent General Election result leave trade unions? How can we best use these results to benefit workers? These are the questions that unions consider after every election regardless of […]

Editorial: Taking Control of Technology

Technology is a weapon that enables a tightly ordered system of control. Inverting it depends on struggle in which technology can be an aid but never an agent.

A Just Transition Means Resisting AI

There can be no just transition without challenging the AI apparatus that is accelerating the social and environmental crisis, writes Dan McQuillan.

Large Language Steam Engines

Kate McCurdy explores how LLMs do and don’t threaten workers in the here and now.

Technological Change and the Scottish Economy

Technologies are reshaping economic activity, as they always have done. Stephen Boyd offers five approaches the Scottish Government should take towards technological change.

AI and Centralisation in the NHS

Unions have a struggle on their hands to reverse the privatising, AI–driven, centralising trends in Scotland's NHS, writes Drew Gilchrist.

Red Lines for Labour

General Secretary of PCS Fran Heathcote sets out the union’s bargaining position as the new government comes to power.

Scotland Can’t Afford Privatised Social Care

With a solid collective bargaining strategy in place, workers would be prepared to do what it takes to de-privatise the Scottish care sector, writes Robyn Martin.

The Deterioration of Construction Jobs

The Scottish construction sector needs an overhaul and unions have to do the heavy lifting, writes Davy Brockett.

Teacher Numbers are Not a Luxury

The further cuts announced to teacher numbers will leave staff with no chance of meeting students’ needs, writes Jane Gow.

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