Workplace, Trade Unions, Strikes

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.

Workers Power  ·  04 June 2023

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

Workers Power  ·  04 June 2023

Bureaucrats behaving badly

The TUC has fined the NEU £153,000, bang in the middle of their strike campaign.

Workers Power  ·  04 June 2023

CWU opposition forces u-turn on ballot

No more delay, restore the strikes.

A CWU Rep  ·  31 May 2023

Royal Mail: Build the No Vote campaign

Rank and file workers should use the campaign to get organised.

A CWU Rep  ·  13 May 2023

Royal Blackmail: don’t give in to company threats

Renationalisation is CWU policy -- let's fight for it

A CWU Rep  ·  01 May 2023

Nurses: defy strike ban and organise for a real pay rise!

The fight goes on, but only rank and file control can overcome obstacles

KD Tait  ·  29 April 2023

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 […]

Rebecca Anderson  ·  28 April 2023

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 […]

Jeremy Dewar  ·  28 April 2023

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 […]

KD Tait  ·  27 April 2023

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