Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Rishi Sunak’s attempted introduction of new anti-strike laws isn’t the first time we’ve seen a Conservative government seek to limit workers’ rights to take industrial action. This timeline of the past five decades explains how the UK got to where it is today. Workers have gradually lost all powers (...)
Anti*capitalist Resistance call for international solidarity on 1 February as the trade union movement resists Tory anti Trade Union legislation.
The working class of Britain have suffered over a decade of austerity and low wages. Pay for many workers has reduced by over 20% in real terms (...)
Terry Conway reports on the latest developments in the ongoing strike wave in the United Kingdom, as workers fight for higher pay while the Conservatives prepare new anti-union legislation.
The battle of working class organisations in Britain against the reactionary Tory government has a new (...)
I spent part of Xmas morning with strikers. I don’t remember this happening before in all my decades of political activity. I didn’t actually have to leave the house as this was a zoom meeting organised by the civil service union PCS to bring solidarity to their members in different sectors (...)
CWU members at Royal Mail have now taken strike action on 11 days since August over pay and conditions writes Pete Firmin. The union won massive majorities for strike action and turnout by organising gate meetings at every workplace around the country.
Thousands of members also went to gate (...)
The death of Queen Elizabeth II and the ensuing national mourning resulted in the suspension of strike movements which had remained dynamic since the beginning of the summer of 2022. Would the struggles manage to recover, once the moment of national genuflection was past?
And what was to (...)
Exclusive: walkout over pay due to take place before Christmas
The biggest nursing strike in NHS history is set to take place before Christmas after union officials said that “large swathes of the country” had voted for industrial action.
Patients who are already facing record waiting lists are (...)
Terry Conway reports on the biggest strike of the summer so far, as over 115,000 CWU members take action over the pitiful wage increase made by their employer Royal Mail.
Friday 26 July saw the biggest strike yet of this summer of struggle when over 115,000 postal workers took action to demand (...)
As the cost of living crisis bites, leaders of barristers to bin collectors are becoming a force to be reckoned with
As Britain heads into an autumn of strikes – and the Labour party comes under pressure to come up with ideas to tackle the cost of living crisis – and support stoppages – we look (...)
With the cost of living soaring and wages falling further behind, the union boss has become the face of resistance. He talks about the rail dispute, the stereotyping of working-class people and his clash with Piers Morgan
It is rare, these days, for the general secretary of a trade union, let (...)
Phil Hearse looks ahead to a bleak Autumn and argues the left must mobilise and shout together ’Enough is Enough’
Last week the Mirror newspaper exposed the case of an 87-year-old man, a sufferer of prostate cancer, who waited 15 hours for an ambulance after falling outside his house in (...)
The biggest wave of strikes on Britain’s rail network since 1989. That’s what the UK faces this week as the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) stages three days of national action, plus a one-day shut down of the London Underground.
As each strike encompasses a 24-hour (...)
A commentary on the upcoming national rail dispute.
t’s obvious when capital is at risk that the organ of the capitalist class attacks trade unionism. Words such as ‘trade union barons’, ‘militant’, ‘Spanish practices’, and the other dreaded m-word ‘Marxist’ are thrown together in a word salad of (...)
On Saturday 9 April a demonstration took place in London called by UK trade unions and supported by both trade union federations of Ukraine. Published below are the statements from the Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine.
Message to the rally by (...)
The Unite executive council unreservedly condemns Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and stands in full solidarity with the millions of victims of the attack. Unite calls for an immediate cease-fire and a withdrawal of all Russian forces from Ukraine.
In line with the oldest traditions of the (...)
On the move
UCU (University and College Union) is on the move. Less than six years ago, our union’s national leadership was ordering 2-hour strikes. A handful of lecturers plus assorted librarians, technicians, and others stood shivering on the perimeters of campuses in what appeared little (...)
Becky Crocker is a railway worker and activist in the RMT union, former chair of its Women’s Advisory Committee. Here she responds to some of the issues raised in the recent debates about RMT activist Eddie Dempsey’s remarks at a rally organised by “The Full Brexit”, and issues in the wider debate (...)
Measures include protections for agency workers and heavier fines for malicious employees
The government has introduced what it claims to be the biggest package of workplace reforms for 20 years after concerns that ministers have failed to appeal to voters who are “just about managing”. (...)
Workers at the Ministry of Justice and Kensington and Chelsea council plan walk out over conditions
Cleaners at the Ministry of Justice and Kensington and Chelsea council are set to take unprecedented strike action this week in their fight for the London living wage and decent sick pay.
On (...)
A grassroots fightback is helping to win basic rights for couriers, cleaners and other workers on zero-hours contracts. And the IWGB is showing how unions can thrive again.
At eight o’clock on a recent June morning, outside the University of London’s art deco Senate House, in Bloomsbury, a Latin (...)
Twitter
Facebook