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THE recognition ballot at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse is the fruit of years of organising by some of Britain’s most exploited workers. Officers of the GMB union entering the warehouse officially for the first time will be proud of shop-floor organisers who have taken on a global giant. But this is …

Amazon workers who are members of the GMB union are walking out over the next fortnight at two sites in the West Midlands, England in their latest phase of industrial action demanding £15 per hour and the right to organise. A two-day stoppage started today at the Amazon BHX4 warehouse …

Hundreds of stores of the retail giant Wilko will close in the coming weeks, after talks to rescue the bankrupt company failed. Administrators at PwC confirmed on Monday that nearly 300 Wilko stores and its distribution centers will cease operations in the coming weeks. The company collapsed owing £410.9 million …

G ood Morning Britain presenter Charlotte Hawkins says she was shaken “deeply” after watching her friend’s daughter being attacked by a dog. Hawkins was reportedly walking with her own child and the eight-year-old girl when the animal escaped from a nearby garden and knocked the child down and bit her. …

Britain’s trade union bureaucracy has called off every strike planned this week by National Health Service (NHS) workers. This is part of a concerted effort to end months of strikes throughout the public and private sectors with below inflation pay settlements. An eight-month strike wave that began last summer has …

Britain’s trade union bureaucracy is making desperate efforts to sabotage the fight of millions of workers against attacks by the employers and government on wages, conditions, pensions and jobs. Last Friday, the GMB union called off a planned strike by thousands of ambulance workers, set to go ahead on December …

STRIKING workers at a Manchester flooring factory have been laid off as part of a “vindictive attack” by bosses, GMB said today. About 200 staff at the Polyflor factory in Whitefields are due to down tools today after the union rejected a below-inflation pay offer from the company, which is a leading …

MASSIVE votes for strike action at Heathrow airport came as railway workers shut down the network for a second day today. British Airways’ attempt to maintain a 10 per cent pay cut — one it imposed alongside job cuts during the pandemic despite receiving public money to protect its workers …

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 …