HGV drivers striking against Coventry City Council since 31 January remain determined as ever, while the city’s Labour councillors continue strike-breaking tactics.

By Alex Reynolds and Tim Nailsea FOOD DELIVERY couriers are one of the worst-paid and most precarious sectors of the labour force. This sector has traditionally been ignored by the major trade unions, who have considered the workforce to be too dispersed to be organised. The only unions who have made any attempt to unionise […]

By a PCS member WITHOUT WARNING, let alone consultation, Boris Johnson has announced over 90,000 job cuts in the civil service. To add insult to injury he did so through the pages of the virulently anti-worker Daily Mail, while suggesting the resultant savings would be used to cut taxes, benefiting the rich most. One in […]

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, […]

Editorial June 2022, No. 394

What are they for?

Demand 10% - or prepare to strike

The base rate of pay for deliveries has been reduced by 24%.

Post Office workers are preparing to strike on 3 May after a massive 97.3% vote for industrial action over pay.

PCS is deciding whether to ballot its members for strike action.

Caterpillar workers at two sites in Northern Ireland have just completed four days of strike action, 11-15 April, with more planned.

Instead of waiting for the leaders, rank and file activists and reps need to make the start.

The fight at Chep is an example of how attacks on the cost of living are eroding workers’ pay.

Unite continues to roll out its campaign

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

Coventry’s refuse drivers have voted 94% in favour of continuing their strike as Coventry Labour councillors are suspended from Unite.

Workers face the biggest cost of living squeeze for a generation

Getting organised is the first step

Strike-breaking by Coventry's Labour council has raised the question of affiliation once again

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 promised shop-steward combines are a good start, but should go further.

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

Support Coventry Bin Workers Against Labour Council’s Attacks

THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) has confirmed a new wave of strike action at 68 universities in February and March. This follows the three-day strike last December in defence of their USS pension scheme and for better pay and working conditions. Since then, twelve further branches have beaten the anti-union legal threshold of 50% […]

The Civil Servants’ union PCS will hold a consultative ballot on pay and pensions between 14 February and 21 March.

The University and College Union (UCU) has confirmed a new wave of strike action at 68 universities in February and March.

The only way to ensure that union officials will never again sell out their own members to the bosses and the state is to democratise our unions.

TfL is facing a £2 billion shortfall.