16 June 2021

Engineers in fourth week of strike action

Management at Brush Electrical Machines is attacking pay, terms and conditions

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Cladding safety: Protests demand developers and government pay

9 June 2021

Cladding safety: Protests took place around the country on 5 June highlighting the cladding crisis

Cladding safety: Protests took place around the country on 5 June highlighting the cladding crisis

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9 June 2021

If unions give a lead, workers are fully prepared to fight and win victories

A year ago, the trade union leaderships collapsed into national unity with the Tory government and the employers.

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2 June 2021

Cladding danger: Protest 5 June!

The tragic Grenfell Tower fire is approaching its fourth anniversary

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Reading, 26.5.21: Standing with the #Sparks blockading #AWE in fight against de-skilling #No2ESO

26 May 2021

Reading, 26.5.21: Standing with the #Sparks blockading #AWE in the fight against de-skilling #No2ESO. NG Bailey & Balfour Beatty must pull away from their deskilling agenda!

Reading, 26.5.21: Standing with the #Sparks blockading #AWE in the fight against de-skilling #No2ESO. NG Bailey & Balfour Beatty must pull away from their deskilling agenda!

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26 May 2021

Cladding anger builds - protest on 5 June

Three-quarters of cladding systems on new medium-rise buildings use combustible materials. Now residents trapped in fire-risk buildings are taking to the streets to protest outside the salerooms of builders

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26 May 2021

Leicester protest against arms supplies to Israel

Not many people in Leicester knew that Israel-based international defence electronics company UAV Tactical Systems had a factory at Meridian Business Park, Leicester, until Palestine Action Leicester (PAL) organised a rooftop protest there

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19 May 2021

Huge victory at Go North West as Unite defeats 'fire and rehire'

As we got to press, bus drivers at Go North West in Manchester have defeated attempts to fire and rehire them, agreeing a deal which will end one of the country's longest-running industrial disputes.

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12 May 2021

Readers' opinion

Social care: Another broken Tory promise: Since 2010, spending on social care has decreased despite demand increasing. Boris Johnson pledged in 2019 that he would finally come up with a solution to the social care crisis, and ensure that people

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12 May 2021

United action needed to defeat fire and rehire

Seventy percent of people are opposed to 'fire and rehire' and want it made illegal. This number will only grow as this brutal weapon of the bosses, imposing worse pay and conditions on workers by sacking

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5 May 2021

Goodlord strike forces talks

The strike at lettings tech platform Goodlord has forced bosses into Acas talks

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5 May 2021

Cladding: Tories refuse to protect leaseholders again

Socialist Party member Paul Kershaw, chair of the Unite housing workers' branch, spoke to Ed Spencer

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5 May 2021

Go Ahead offers deal to Manchester bus drivers

Bus drivers employed by Go North West in Manchester have been taking all-out, continuous strike, since the 28 February

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5 May 2021

Bellway must pay! Make our homes safe!

On 1 May more than 60 residents of the Caspian Quarter gathered outside Bellway's Barking showrooms to protest about the property developer's failure to replace flammable balconies

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28 April 2021

Goodlord strikers fight fire and rehire as part of day of action

Unite the Union held a mass picket outside the tenant referencing company Goodlord on 26 April as part of a day of action against 'fire and rehire.'

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21 April 2021

Bus workers protest Go-Ahead's 'fire and rehire'

The Go-Ahead group runs bus services in Manchester and is currently using 'fire and rehire' to cut drivers' pay and conditions. Go-Ahead is also a big operator in Transport for London (TfL).

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21 April 2021

Fight back against British Gas bosses' 'fire and rehire' offensive

On their 43rd day of strike action on 14 April, hundreds of GMB members in British Gas were facing the sack after refusing to agree the imposition of new contracts

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14 April 2021

SPS Technologies workers end strike after management backs down

Unite members at SPS Technologies in Leicester have ended their strike action against the attempt by management to attack their terms and conditions using 'fire and rehire' tactics.

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7 April 2021

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31 March 2021

British Gas workers strike ahead of 'fire and rehire' deadline

Thousands of British Gas engineers in the GMB union took strike action against before the deadline for the signing of new contracts, imposed through 'fire and rehire'.

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