Work and trade unions
St Mungo’s: Lessons for all rank and file activists
Over 800 workers at the homeless charity St Mungo’s have voted to end their three-month all out strike.
Workers Summit: The SWP, the rank & file and the revolutionary party
Under pressure from rank and file activity most of the revolutionary socialist groups turned left, workers power argues now is the time to unite all who want to develop a rank and file strategy.
After the strike wave, what next for the rank and file?
The 2022-2023 strike wave, despite its impressive size, failed to achieve what was possible for workers. George Banks argues the rank and file needs organisation and unity.
Troublemakers at Work: A good first step for the rank & file
An important step forward for grassroots trade unionists
Postal workers: Organise to stop the retreat!
CWU bureaucracy wins on rotten deal, but struggle won't end.
Organise the rank and file: an open letter to union activists and the left
An Open Letter to union activists and the left on the next steps for our movement
PCS members say no to below-inflation pay ‘rise’
PCS members follow the nurses' lead
Workers In Action — July-August 2023
Industrial disputes round-up
Postal workers: Vote no and defend our terms and conditions
Rotten agreement will not provide job security and will weaken union.
CWU ballot: Security and stability or a race to the bottom?
By a CWU Rep The CWU leadership argues that if we had continued to strike Royal Mail would have gone bankrupt. The Tories would have taken it over, handed the parcel operation to the company’s international holding company IDS (until last year Royal Mail Group) and slashed the USO, losing tens of thousands of jobs. […]
St Mungo’s Unite extends strike to all-out
800 striking workers at St Mungo’s homelessness charity have escalated to indefinite action, Jeremy Dewar reports.
Local government: vote yes and organise to strike!
Over half a million council and school employees are currently balloting for strike action to win a real pay rise. If successful, this would be the biggest strike yet in the wave of action over the cost of living crisis. But the task is huge.
For a rank and file movement in the CWU
The CWU leadership are running scared of their own members. Workers Power argues for a rank and file movement
Bureaucrats behaving badly
The TUC has fined the NEU £153,000, bang in the middle of their strike campaign.
With dodgy deals looming, the rank and file must organise to seize control of the unions
Editorial June 2023, No. 404
CWU opposition forces u-turn on ballot
No more delay, restore the strikes.
Royal Mail: Build the No Vote campaign
Rank and file workers should use the campaign to get organised.
Royal Blackmail: don’t give in to company threats
Renationalisation is CWU policy -- let's fight for it
Nurses: defy strike ban and organise for a real pay rise!
The fight goes on, but only rank and file control can overcome obstacles
Civil service unions: escalate now or never
By Rebecca Anderson UNLIKE OTHER public sector workers, the government’s 2022/23 pay offer to civil servants has not been improved by the wave of industrial action. Despite double-digit inflation, the government has refused to negotiate anything above the 2–3% pay rise that has already been imposed, not even offering the derisory one-off payments recently rejected […]
The trade union rank and file today
By Jeremy Dewar STRIKES—ESPECIALLY a prolonged strike wave like the present—draw huge number of trade union members into activity, and expand the numbers of activists building for the action. There’s lots to do: organising workplace meetings to get out the message and identify new activists, phoning up members to check postal addresses and win the […]
Nurses: what now after the ‘No’ vote?
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 […]
Teachers: protest strikes won’t win real pay rise
More strikes announced, but union leaders preparing to settle for pay cut
Organise a “vote no” campaign against the Royal Mail deal
WHEN THE CWU postal union finally released the text of its deal with Royal Mail after months of negotiations, it immediately became clear union leaders had conceded to most of Royal Mail’s demands. The members’ response was overwhelmingly negative. Even as the union’s media team was uploading video after video trying to spin the deal […]
UCU members: fight Grady’s sabotage
Vote 'No' to consultation and 'Yes' to action.
What is the problem with the unions?
How can we get unions that fight?
NHS pay deal is a pay cut: vote no!
The pay offer is an insult. Organise to fight for more.
Pay vs profits: Royal Mail dispute at a crossroads
Workers need a rank-and-file movement to take control of the dispute to stop a bad deal
UCU: Anatomy of a betrayal
By Dara O’Cogaidhin THE UCU strike has been called off following a campaign of anti-democratic, bureaucratic manoeuvring by General Secretary Jo Grady. After negotiations with the employers’ organisation UCEA, Grady informed members via Twitter that a ‘two week period of calm’ was agreed which would enable ‘intensive negotiations with the aim of reaching a final […]
Stop the sell-outs – step up the strikes
THE STRIKE wave in response to the bosses’ offensive, which threatens to rob workers and the poor of 15% or more of their real income over two years, has given a welcome boost to millions. The number of walkouts over the past nine months marks the most sustained and widespread strike action for 30 years—despite […]
