July/August 2012 The magazine for Unite members uniteWORKS
Features 16 Crime scene investigation
Government plans to privatise police staff
24 Massive attack Charter for easy sackings
26 Heart of the revolution Poet Lemn Sissay, the match girls, and the Olympics
28 And there’ll be jam for tea
Owen Jones on London’s earlier Olympics and the difference for workers today
Opinion 19 Views on the news
No fault? No way! – Beecroft report
31 Soapbox Your say your way
31 Your letters Over to you
News 4 Comment
GS Len McCluskey writes 5 News in pictures
Big stories in big pictures
10 Top stories Exactly that
Plus 30 Unite Review
London – the people’s history
32 Just for fun
Puzzles, prizes, giveaways galore
14 Sector focus
News from Unite sectors including how car
manufacturing is bucking
the trend and London bus workers’ un-fare treatment
Real lives 20 Work till you drop
Work till your 68 – or else 22 Uniting community
Local people find a voice 34 Unite Life
Lighterman John Dwan on the Thames
Contents
ON THE COVER
‘MAYBOCOP’ montage by Darren Brinham
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