Work and trade unions

PCS: now is the time to strike

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

Rebecca Anderson  ·  27 April 2022

Workers take on Greedy Caterpillar

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

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  24 April 2022

We need a national fight against cost of living attacks

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

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  23 April 2022

Chep UK – strike reaches twentieth week

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

Tim Nailsea  ·  23 April 2022

The bin strikes are spreading

Unite continues to roll out its campaign

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  23 April 2022

Stop the P&O jobs massacre

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

Bernie McAdam  ·  28 March 2022

Manchester wins control of buses – now fight to nationalise them

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

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  28 March 2022

Solidarity with Coventry bin workers

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

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  28 March 2022

Unite the resistance to the cost of living crisis

Workers face the biggest cost of living squeeze for a generation

Urte March  ·  20 March 2022

Fighting sexism in the tech sector

Getting organised is the first step

Sam Copley  ·  06 March 2022

Should the trade unions disaffiliate from Labour?

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

Tim Nailsea  ·  06 March 2022

London Underground strikes solid

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

Bernie McAdam  ·  06 March 2022

Higher education strikes: escalate and fight for rank and file control

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

Andy Yorke  ·  01 March 2022

Unite’s new combines: a step in the right direction

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

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  19 February 2022

Bus workers fight continues

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

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  19 February 2022

Support Coventry bin workers against Labour council’s attacks

Support Coventry Bin Workers Against Labour Council’s Attacks

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  19 February 2022

UCU strikes: escalate to win

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% […]

Dara O'Cogaidhin  ·  14 February 2022

PCS members must organise for pay fight

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

Rebecca Anderson  ·  07 February 2022

Rank and file must keep UCU strike on track

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

Dara O'Cogaidhin  ·  07 February 2022

Unite investigates scab officials

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.

Tim Nailsea  ·  07 February 2022

Tories hold London transport to ransom

TfL is facing a £2 billion shortfall.

Bernie McAdam  ·  07 February 2022

After the Unison local government pay fiasco

The 14.6% turnout in the pay ballot marks a dangerous low point.

A Unison Steward  ·  07 February 2022

Beyond start and stop strikes

The strategy has won victories, but there are limitations.

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  17 January 2022

Unite the fight in transport

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

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  17 January 2022

After Bexley comes Coventry – Support the bin workers!

The workers will be striking every Wednesday and Friday in March.

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  17 January 2022

Fight inflation – for a sliding scale of wages!

For a 1% increase in wages for every 1% increase in prices.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  12 December 2021

Students and staff – unite and fight for fair learning and working conditions

University managers have resorted to the tried and tested tactic of divide and rule, attempting to whip up student hostility against staff.

KD Tait  ·  10 December 2021

All out for the UCU strike

Students and staff unite - for decent conditions on campus

Dara O'Cogaidhin  ·  08 December 2021

NHS, local government, schools: strike for real pay rises!

Only the rank and file can overcome the divided union leaders and deliver votes for industrial action

A Unison Steward  ·  08 December 2021

UCU: organise solidarity and prepare for all-out action to win

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, […]

Urte March  ·  01 December 2021

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