Rallying last Saturday (Pic: Clarks Strike Supporters on Facebook) Around 400 people joined a march through Street in Somerset last Saturday in support of the striking Clarks shoe warehouse workers. It was the biggest demo the village has ever seen. Delegations of local trade unionists joined strikers and their families. …
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Stagecoach workers in South Wales protest and strike—and the first Father Christmas of the year? (Pic: Unite Wales) Bus drivers working for Stagecoach in South Wales renewed their strike over pay on Monday. Workers in the Unite union hit the Cwmbran, Blackwood and Brynmawr depots The action began on Sunday …
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Unite national officer Des Quinn announces the suspension of strikes at GKN (Pic: Unite West Midlands on Twitter) Strikes at the GKN Automotive factory in Birmingham have been suspended. The workers were due to begin strikes on Monday against plans of parent company Melrose GKN to close the factory. Following …
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Tower Hamlets council workers on strike last year (Pic: Guy Smallman) How many workers went on strike in 2020? One good answer might be “not enough”. But the official answer is “we will never know”. At the start of the pandemic the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced it was …
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Black Lives Matter protesters dump a statue of slaver Edward Colston in Bristol harbour during a protest last year (Pic: PA) British capitalism was built on the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and key institutions were central to it. Eleven former governors and 16 directors of the Bank of England owned slaves …
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Swansea Parcelforce workers took action earlier this year over coronavirus fears (Pic: CWU Southwest Wales Ama) Postal workers’ demands for safety were ignored at a major Royal Mail workplace where more than 20 people have caught coronavirus. At least 22 people at the Cardiff delivery office and mail centre have tested …
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Swansea Parcelforce workers left their depot in April over safety fears (Pic: CWU Southwest Wales Amal) Royal Mail workers are in revolt over a management decision to bring back shared delivery vans. The CWU union described the move as “reckless”. Speaking to around 20,000 CWU members on a Facebook session, …
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Lecturers won their strike in 2017 (Pic: Duncan Brown) Scottish FE lecturers in the EIS-FELA union are going into dispute over attempts by management to replace teaching with training. This will force lecturers on to instructor and assessor contracts. At Forth Valley College staff were selected at random and told …
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People Before Profit NHS campaign Labour MPs, trade unionists, campaigners and socialists have joined forces to call for a “fightback across workplaces and communities to demand ordinary people won’t pay for the crisis”. The People Before Profit group will launch its emergency programme for jobs, services and safety on Tuesday. …
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It’s not only Dominic Cummings that Boris Johnson has refused to sack. He is also protecting housing secretary Robert Jenrick, despite repeated allegations of what looks like corruption. And part of the reason may be that Johnson himself is embroiled in the scandal. The Jenrick case centres on a 1,500 …
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