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 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.
Tim Nailsea reviews Why You Should Be A Trade Unionist by Len McCluskey
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
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".
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%.
If our “leaders'' won't lead, then grassroots activists need to take initiative and organise.
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.
No candidate is proposing genuine rank and file strategy.
Cross-union strike committees should be elected to unite the unions behind 15% and prepare coordinated action
The rank and file must take control.
The teachers' initiative is a model for workers to follow
Companies that cut jobs should be nationalised without compensation to their owners
NHS workers campaign for a pay rise.
Say no to shoddy British Airways deal!
Rallies and demonstrations are due to take place across the country, as part of a growing grassroots revolt by nurses and health workers excluded from a recent public sector pay rise
The divide in Unite's dominant faction deepens.
With public support behind them, nurses and health workers can lead the way in fighting for a pay rise for all public sector employees.