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.
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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.
The 14.6% turnout in the pay ballot marks a dangerous low point.
The strategy has won victories, but there are limitations.
Unite is running a campaign amongst members working in the bus industry throughout Britain.
The workers will be striking every Wednesday and Friday in March.
For a 1% increase in wages for every 1% increase in prices.
University managers have resorted to the tried and tested tactic of divide and rule, attempting to whip up student hostility against staff.
Students and staff unite - for decent conditions on campus
Only the rank and file can overcome the divided union leaders and deliver votes for industrial action
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, […]