[ad_1] Royal Mail and Post Office workers took national strike action today, covering a combined workforce of up to 120,000. There were large turn outs on picket lines at delivery offices, mail centres and Parcelforce depots across the UK. Striking Royal Mail workers in Bournemouth, August 26, 2022 [Photo: WSWS] The national strike at Royal…
[ad_1] 40,000 Communication Workers Union (CWU) members across BT and its subsidiary Openreach held a second day of strike action Monday, following a 24-hour strike last Friday—the first national strike at the company in 35 years. Workers are demanding a substantial pay increase after BT imposed a pay award rise of just £1,500 on 58,000…
[ad_1] BT Group was hit Friday by a walkout of 40,000 call centre staff and engineers taking part in the first day of their 48-hour national strike action which will continue next Monday. This is the first company-wide strike action in 35 years. The members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) returned resounding mandates on…
[ad_1] The two-day strike at BT on July 29 and August 1 sees 40,000 telecoms workers join with rail workers and hundreds of thousands of others in a growing fightback against the corporations and the Conservative government’s refusal to agree a living wage. This is the first company wide strike since 1987 and the first…
[ad_1] BT workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strikes in a dispute over pay – joining a growing army of employees taking industrial action in the coming months in what has been dubbed the “summer of discontent”. General secretary Dave Ward said BT was facing the first national strike since the company was privatised…
[ad_1] The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has announced it will ballot 115,000 postal workers for national strike action against the imposition of a 2 percent pay award for this year by the highly profitable Royal Mail Group. The ballot will open on June 28 with results to be announced on July 19. Royal Mail van,…
[ad_1] BT Group, the UK telecoms giant, is facing a national strike over pay by 40,000 frontline staff across BT and its subsidiaries, Openreach and EE. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) will begin balloting from June 15. BT announced its decision to impose a pay award for this year of between 3 and 8 percent…
[ad_1] Ending the UK’s lockdown is lifting the lid on industrial disputes long suppressed by the trade union bureaucracy. Employers have used the pandemic crisis as a pretext for ramped-up exploitation. This agenda will escalate as Prime Minister Boris Johnson oversees a return to “normality” centred on a reopening of the economy. Fearful of the…
[ad_1] SCOTTISH TUC 2020 convenes against the backdrop of the most difficult year many of us have ever seen, in Scotland and right across the UK. However, it has been the working class who have stepped up and endured the most of these challenges — continuing to tend to the sick and vulnerable, to maintain…
[ad_1] Political promises should be taken with a pinch of salt. Investors can make expensive mistakes if they change their plans around a pie-in-the-sky manifesto pledge. Take, for example, Labour’s promise to privatise a handful of companies. Many DIY investors took these seriously and sold out, avoiding the risk of any government meddling. On the face of it,…