Mark Harper, prime minister Rishi Sunak’s new Secretary of State for Transport, failed to give any real indication to those working in rail or to passengers that he will in any way adequately address the industry’s current problems.
Following significant progress in negotiations with university employers on pay, working conditions and pensions, the university staff’s union, the UCU, is suspending for two weeks the remaining seven days of its planned 18 days of strike action.
After court challenges from the employer, Communication Workers’ Union members at Royal Mail have voted overwhelmingly to continue taking industrial action
22 February 2023
University staff look to have made progress in their struggle on pay and conditions. This shows the power of a united workforce.
14 February 2023
London Abellio bus drivers have won a big pay increase after a long-running dispute. They accepted a greatly increased offer of an18 per cent pay rise.
28 January 2023
Luton airport staff have won a 28 per cent pay rise as union activity in the private sector accelerates.
20 January 2023
School teachers in England and Wales, members of the National Education Union (NEU), have voted to take industrial action over pay. Strikes, both national and regional, are set to affect 23,000 schools.
The railway industry and its workforce enter 2023 with uncertain futures. So far rail workers have shown they are prepared to stand and fight for their interests, together with those of the industry…
For the first time in Britain, Amazon workers are exerting their trade union organisation in pursuit of higher pay. GMB members at the company’s Coventry site have voted to back strike action for an increase to £15 an hour.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch has slammed the government for scuppering a deal which could have prevented rail strikes in the run-up to Christmas.
10 December 2022
Government workers across several areas will be on strike this month for better pay. After years of pay restraint they have decided that they have little choice but to act.
10 December 2022
Workers at vinyl flooring manufacturer Polyflor in Bury, Manchester, have won a pay increase of 9 per cent plus two lump sums of £660 – after originally being offered just 2 per cent.
9 December 2022
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch has slammed the government for scuppering a deal which could have prevented rail strikes in the run-up to Christmas.
27 November 2022
Three days of strike action are hitting virtually every university in the country, with action on 24, 25 and 30 November in the biggest walkout that the University and College Union has ever taken.
27 November 2022
Striking train drivers in 11 passenger rail companies brought most of England’s rail services to a standstill again on Saturday 26 November 2022.
22 November 2022
Administrative staff at the Instituto Cervantes centres in Britain – the Spanish government’s cultural centre abroad – took strike action for better pay and conditions on Friday 18 November.
17 November 2022
Rail workers, members of RMT, have voted overwhelmingly to continue industrial action to defend their living standards, jobs and working conditions.
The rail disputes are now nearly six months old, and railway workers and their unions – led by RMT – are now resigned to a long-drawn-out campaign...
24 October 2022
The University and College Union has announced that over 70,000 university staff at 150 universities could strike after an overwhelming Yes vote for strike action in what it calls “two historic national ballots”.
6 October 2022
With criminal barristers ramping up their industrial action to all-out strike from the start of September, the government has made an improved offer to try to get the courts back to work in England and Wales.
27 September 2022
Thousands of lecturers at further education colleges in England are striking this week and next in a battle over pay in the biggest action ever taken by FE workers.
20 September 2022
Unions at aerospace and defence company Rolls-Royce are to ballot for industrial action after talks on pay broke down at the beginning of September.
With figures showing that Britain’s workers have seen the value of their pay decline, on average, by more than 4 per cent over the past year – the sharpest drop for decades – RMT rail members are leading the fight for higher pay…
Capitalism cannot meet even our basic survival needs. Nor can it protect the environment here in Britain or elsewhere.
After nearly two months of intermittent industrial action, criminal barristers in England and Wales have voted to escalate to uninterrupted, indefinite strikes.
23 August 2022
Around 1,000 journalists across Britain and Ireland working for the Reach group start four days of strike action on Friday 26 August after rejecting a pay increase of 3 per cent.
15 August 2022
Ferry Workers on Red Funnel Isle of Wight routes are fighting for better pay with a series strikes throughout August.
29 June 2022
Hundreds of criminal barristers began a series of strikes on 27 June over unacceptable pay rates for legal aid cases. The action has already led to eight out of ten crown court hearings being postponed.
There is surely now no doubt about the government’s hatred of public transport and the highly unionised workers that provide Britain’s train, bus and tram services…
Workers at the Financial Conduct Authority have stepped up their fight for better pay and conditions, and union recognition, with a two-day strike.
