Shareholders are lining their pockets while public health services are starved of the resources they need

Students and workers are being made to pay for the failure of the marketisation of higher education

Health workers should organise to meet a Labour government with a united front

We need a publicly-owned and run public transport service

An unprecedented seven days of strike action over 16 days by consultants and junior doctors.

The fight goes on, but only rank and file control can overcome obstacles

AS WE go to press NHS managers and Health Minster Steve Barclay are dragging the largest NHS union, the Royal College of Nursing, before the High Court in a bid by to block nurses’ strike action due to start on the May Day weekend. They claimed that the strike mandate would be invalid from midnight […]

More strikes announced, but union leaders preparing to settle for pay cut

Health bulletin for 29 March 2023

The UCU took action in 150 universities in November.

Health bulletin for 14 December 2022

By a Unison activist THE NATIONAL Education Union has won an impressive mandate to call an official strike ballot for a cost of living pay increase. Not only did over a quarter of a million teachers vote by 86% on a 62% turnout for strike action in support of a fully-funded (i.e. increasing school budgets) […]

Rail bulletin for 30 July 2022

UCU members at 33 further education (FE) colleges are taking part in a ballot for industrial action.

By Bernie McAdam IN RESPONSE to threats over pay, compulsory redundancies and safety, RMT rail workers have voted in favour of strike action across Network Rail and 13 other train companies in the biggest endorsement of strike action since privatisation. Only at GTR did the vote for action fall short. RMT balloted over 40,000 members, […]

P&O Ferries have brutally sacked 800 workers without notice and replaced them with scab crews on less than the minimum wage.

Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has won a court case in defence of his plans to bring the city’s buses back into public control

We need working class self-organisation to stop police harassment in schools and on the streets

The Tories are desperate to put a positive spin on the teaching of the British Empire

Cuts to London transport funding are a political attack on Labour and the unions

The Higher Education strike has seen vibrant picket lines and a fighting mood up and down the country.

The fight by bus workers for better pay and conditions continues across the country.

Day of action on 26 Feb.

TfL is facing a £2 billion shortfall.

Unite is running a campaign amongst members working in the bus industry throughout Britain.

Since the start of the pandemic, trans people have been left in limbo by the NHS, with devastating effects on their physical and mental health.

Students and staff unite - for decent conditions on campus

By Urte March HIGHER EDUCATION workers in the University and College Union (UCU) are on strike from 1–3 December in a dispute over proposed pension cuts, pay and working conditions. Workers were balloted in October over cuts to the USS pension scheme for pre-1992 universities, and a sector-wide campaign over the ‘Four Fights’ – pay, […]

By Tim Nailsea STAGECOACH DRIVERS, engineers and cleaners in Scotland, Chesterfield, Manchester, the North-East, Lancashire and Liverpool and South Wales are all balloting, or have already been balloted for strike action. The issues are broadly the same everywhere. Despite working throughout the pandemic at considerable personal risk, drivers have either not been awarded a pay […]

We need 15% or £15 an hour