In the recent spate of school strikes across London, the National Education Union has been offering teachers up to 100% of their pay lost due to strike action. While there will be some money lost to their pension contributions, this essentially amounts to a cost-free strike.

The delay in Labour’s Employment Rights Bill, originally promised as a flagship piece of legislation aimed at strengthening workers’ rights, is a betrayal of the workers and trade unions who put the party into power.

The Tories are up in arms, demanding Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner intervenes in the Birmingham bin strike. Their aim? Convene a Cobra meeting and break the strike by drafting in private sector scab labour.

A PCS member In a move reminiscent of the coalition government of the 2010s, Rachel Reeves has announced a sweeping 15% cut to the civil service administration budget. Reeves’ spring statement was a clear signal to the markets that Labour will hold to their self-imposed fiscal rules by slashing the public sector and making the […]

By Jeremy Dewar The National Education Union is coordinating strikes across 10 schools in four London boroughs. Teachers are on the picket lines on 27 February and 5, 11, 12 and 13 March, while some will take off days in between as well. Strikers from all the schools will rally together outside the Department for […]

By a PCS activist A ballot for industrial action has opened at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Staff at Angela Rayner’s department are fighting closures, mandated attendance and restricted promotion opportunities. Birmingham, Newcastle, Truro, Exeter, Sheffield and Warrington offices will shut, with no guarantee that others are safe in the longer term.  […]

By Tim Nailsea The trade union movement in Britain saw something of a strike wave in 2022-23, in response to the double-digit inflation and the cost-of-living crisis. Yet in the following years the tide has definitely ebbed. In December 2022, 830,000 working days were lost due to strike action; by December 2024, they had dropped […]

Workers Power proposed local organisation and a clear position on radical democratisation of the unions.

Left campaign needs democratic control.

Rank and file activists build on success of first conference

The TUC hailed a 'major boost to workers rights' that failed to abolish zero-hours contracts, fire and rehire, or deliver full rights from day one.

The Tories' anti-union laws have blocked local government workers taking legal strike action to improve a pathetic 3% pay offer

Nurses have overwhelmingly rejected Labour's pay offer. Now is the time to step up the action.

The first TUC under a Labour government since 2009 is a chance to demand Labour restore workers' rights.

The trade union leaders are preparing to show their 'goodwill' to the Labour government by accepting a below inflation pay offer, that will leave workers worse off

An open letter from rank and file trade unionists calling for a democratic, organising conference to build the movement

Operating theatre nurses are on strike against plans to extend their hours, as part of Labour's plan to run the NHS on overtime

Amazon is spending vast sums trying to defeat a campaign for trade union recognition.

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

Labour's plan to extend workers' rights will be gutted by 'consultation' with bosses unless trade unions fight back

Trade unionists are organising to take control of their pensions

Union leader chooses militarism over internationalism

3,000 jobs are under threat at Tata Steel. The fight will have consequences across the whole industry.

Halfway through Graham’s first term, we look at the general secretary’s record and the limits of her return to ‘pure’ trade unionism.

Has threat of escalating strike action turned Minimum Service law into 'a paper tiger'?

By Bernie McAdam OVER 150,000 public sector workers went on strike on Thursday 18 January in the biggest strike action the ‘Northern Ireland’ state has ever seen. Workers from 16 trade unions involving public transport, education, health and the civil service walked out for the day over an outstanding pay award. A near General Strike […]

Dave Lewis, revolutionary socialist and founder of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners

The defeat of PCS’s cost-of-living pay strikes dominated the election.

Tesla is on the defensive in Sweden in the face of this union show of power.

Unison is at a crossroads.