Birmingham bin workers must spread the strike to win
Mass pickets work, but action needs to spread to win
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Birmingham bin strike: Fire Angela Raynor, don’t rehire!
By Jeremy Dewar Unite the Union’s 2025 delegate conference erupted in anger on its penultimate day, 10 July, with news
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‘We shut the gates!’ Report from Birmingham mega-picket
By Jeremy Dewar Many hundreds of workers poured into Lifford Lane in south Birmingham from 6am onwards, many with banners
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How can the Birmingham bins dispute be won?
Mass pickets and solidarity action could bring this strike to a rapid and successful conclusion
Birmingham bin strike: Test for Labour
The Tories are up in arms, demanding Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner intervenes in the Birmingham bin strike. Their aim? Convene a Cobra meeting and break the strike by drafting in private sector scab labour.
NHS theatre nurses on strike demand safe staffing
Operating theatre nurses are on strike against plans to extend their hours, as part of Labour’s plan to run the NHS on overtime
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Save Port Talbot: strike and occupy for nationalisation
3,000 jobs are under threat at Tata Steel. The fight will have consequences across the whole industry.
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Sharon Graham: a mid-term report
Halfway through Graham’s first term, we look at the general secretary’s record and the limits of her return to ‘pure’ trade unionism.
Health strikes: future of NHS at stake
The Tories can’t be trusted with the NHS. But there can be no holding back for Labour.
St Mungo’s Unite extends strike to all-out
800 striking workers at St Mungo’s homelessness charity have escalated to indefinite action, Jeremy Dewar reports.
Nurses: defy strike ban and organise for a real pay rise!
The fight goes on, but only rank and file control can overcome obstacles
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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
Southampton dockers defy anti-union laws in solidarity with Liverpool strike
By Dave Stockton Dockers in Southampton have refused to unload containers diverted from Liverpool, in defiance of shipping companies and
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Dockers strikes spread from Felixstowe to Liverpool
Five hundred Liverpool dockers at England’s fourth-largest port, employed by MDHC Container Services, are to strike from 19 September to 3 October
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Public sector pay ballots: press for co-ordination
Nurses, refuse collectors, youth workers, teachers, lecturers and civil servants are being balloted.
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Report — TUC lefts urge resistance to cost of living crisis
By Jeremy Dewar “A new deal for working people, a new social settlement for the UK” A LONDON TUC rally
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