Pensions after Brexit
The referendum campaign blunted one EU attack on pensions. Now the real pensions fight must begin.
Features
Features
Cooperatives - models for worker ownership?
Some see coops as capable of blunting the effect of privatisation. Is the dream right? Or is reality somewhat different?
TTIP - it's still there
During the referendum campaign some tried to blunt the Leave attack by claiming TTIP is dead and buried…
Engineering training: back to the future
As the call for more resources to train engineers for Britain’s future manufacturing increases, pressure is building for more consolidated action – and a return to previous approaches to training…
Time to take back control of our fish
After the Referendum we must now do something about what remains of our fishing industry. It’s time to reflect on the devastating impact of the EU and how to revive the industry along with fishing stocks…
What's a university for?
The government is trying to turn academia into a machine for facilitating personal gain…
Guards sacrificed on the altar of profit
The rail unions are fighting running battles across Britain over safety, with one rail company after the other looking to dispense with guards…
The challenge of steel
All steel-producing countries are cutting back on production. But only in Britain is it considered feasible to eradicate crude steel production entirely – though it is essential to any modern economy…
Are we witnessing the slow death of the EU?
Those in favour of staying in the European Union claim it is a force for stability. Nothing could be further from the truth – the EU is falling apart before our eyes…
EU Directive threatens investigatory journalism
Another directive, another threat. This time it’s journalists at the receiving end…
Work longer hours, retire later
The fight for lower hours didn’t begin with the EU. It certainly hasn’t ended with the Working Time Directive – the number of hours we are working is climbing steadily…
Into battle for the BBC
The upcoming renewal of the BBC’s charter is an opportunity to expose ‘austerity’ and demand the funding to make a great institution even greater…
Agencies for capital
The EU’s Agency Workers Directive hasn’t protected us – just encouraged the massive growth of casualisation…
Academies: brute force and ignorance
Thanks to George Osborne, ably supported by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, a new word is gaining currency – “academisation”, the forcible conversion of schools into unaccountable academies…
Inequality, social justice and surplus value
You can’t buck economic laws. It’s not an accident that capitalism doesn’t distribute the results of labour equally.
Housing: a national issue, and a class issue
The new Housing and Planning Bill cultivates and exploits the crisis in housing to strengthen the class power of a tiny minority…
You thought TTIP was bad? Take a look at TiSA
The EU is preparing to hand over power to global corporations to say how we must trade in services – all services. And all in secret.
Why trade unionists should vote to leave
One of the big lies of the European Union is that it is somehow good for workers. In fact, the EU is attacking the basis of all progress at work – effective collective bargaining…
No borders, no control
Free movement? In the EU it just means freedom for employers to lower pay and avoid training…
Exclusive: Cuba, the unions, and the world
In an exclusive interview with Workers, two veteran Cuban communists give a fascinating insight into the view from a country where the working class is in command.
How to defeat the Bill
With the fascistic Trade Union Bill – attacking membership and finances – shortly to become law, we need organisation and clarity of thinking.
Three big lies in the attack on health students
How can Britain be short of nurses and midwives and yet cut back on training places and support? The answer is simple: rob other countries by importing their trained specialists…
Why the deficit is being dumped on us
Deliberate policies from successive governments have turned Britain into a debtor country, with foreign credit used to finance imports and mortgages.
Sick of capitalism
New research from the worlds leading authority on health inequalities highlights the links between inequity in society, poverty and ill health.
Ambulance emergency
In November the Care Quality Commission gave the London Ambulance Service its lowest rating. What’s going on? And what is the way forward?
1: Caught in the check off trap
Rail unions learned just how vulnerable their finances were many years ago when British Rail summarily ended the check-off facility to RMT during a dispute in 1993.
2: Half a century of attack
“Kill the Bill!” was the slogan adopted by trade unions more than forty years ago, in opposition to the Industrial Relations Bill – which came perilously close to being accepted in toto by British trade unions.
India's loss
Before Theresa May added nursing to the shortage occupation list the Indian Health Ministry was expecting to gain from the implementation of her previous immigration rules which had been due to take effect on 6 April 2016.
Union prophecy proved right
From a Unison Branch Secretary letter in 2014: “The trickle of staff leaving that we saw nine months or so ago has developed into a tidal wave. A tidal wave that, if not stopped, will take our Service down.