By Tim Nailsea STAGECOACH DRIVERS, engineers and cleaners in Scotland, Chesterfield, Manchester, the North-East, Lancashire and Liverpool and South Wales are all balloting, or have already been balloted for strike action. The issues are broadly the same everywhere. Despite working throughout the pandemic at considerable personal risk, drivers have either not been awarded a pay […]

By Rebecca Anderson THERE IS a real opportunity for coordinated strike action between two of Britain’s largest workforces: council workers, including school support staff, and hospital employees. If successful, it could bust the public sector pay freeze and build momentum in private sector struggles for substantial pay rises. Local government and school staff have been […]

We need 15% or £15 an hour

Dublin Bus workers have soundly rejected a deal recommended by union leaders

Under threat of outsourcing, 550 Unite members at GKN’s plant in Erdington vote to strike.

Remember the old slogan - "with the union leaders where possible, without them where necessary".

The pandemic revealed just how much British capitalism relies upon transport workers

Two trade unions have called on Uber drivers to stop work.

Brexit and pandemic-induced shortages fuel demands for action on pay and conditions

Healthworkers are being balloted over the government's insulting 3% pay offer

Members deliver surprise result in blow for right and official left

Much of the interest in the Unite General Secretary election has been the result of the union’s influence in internal Labour Party politics.

General Secretary candidate Sharon Graham heads up the union's Organising Unit.

Unite General Secretary election raises questions about organising the rank and file.

Government offers "insulting" 3%.

Branch activists must now co-ordinate real change from below.

Teachers take strike action.

Civil Enforecement and hospital workers stage walkouts.

By KD Tait Members of Unite the union have started voting to elect the general secretary of Britain’s most important trade union. The election comes at a critical moment for the labour movement. After the rout of the Corbyn movement, Labour’s leadership is determined to complete the purge of the left’s influence within the party. […]

Howard Beckett is the sole candidate not advocating a retreat from the struggle over the political leadership of the Labour Party.

Four candidates will be on the ballot paper.

Workplace activists can lead the fight for 15%.

No candidate is proposing genuine rank and file strategy.

Fighting back against "fire & rehire".

Even more employers will use this tactic to attack terms and conditions.

Manchester buses, school students and British Gas

Cross-union strike committees should be elected to unite the unions behind 15% and prepare coordinated action

State surveillance, political trials and blacklisting

The rank and file must take control.

Whats kicking off and where.