13 January 2021

British Gas workers strike against 'fire and rehire' plans

The gas engineers received tremendous support at a Leicester picket

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6 January 2021

British Gas workers on strike against fire and re-hire pay cut

British Gas workers begin five days of strike action on Thursday 7 January, with potentially more to follow

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9 September 2020

Fight Amazon's anti-union spies

Amazon is spying on its 'flex' drivers in dozens of Facebook groups in the US, the UK, and Spain, according to the Vice Media Group. Flex drivers are the workers who deliver the items to your door.

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3 June 2020

Coordinated union struggle needed to save jobs and nationalise JCB

Digger company JCB has recently announced redundancies and proposed other changes to our terms and conditions that it insists are necessary due to the impact of Covid-19.

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18 March 2020

Workers at Lewisham coronavirus hospital walk out after not being paid

"Infected patients are now being admitted into the hospital, but the cleaners have downed tools because they haven't been paid"

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20 December 2019

Council concedes to striking winter gritters' demands

Plaid Cymru-led Carmarthenshire County has backed down in the face of determined industrial action

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10 December 2019

Pay Deal: ACAS sides with management

A missed opportunity to fight

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20 November 2019

Frimley NHS Trust: Strikers remain determined to defeat privatisation

Hospital support staff struck on 18 and 19 November against transfer to a 'wholly owned subsidiary'

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23 October 2019

Asda contracts: Vital that GMB mobilises for industrial action

About 400 hundred Asda workers and members of the GMB union marched defiantly through Leeds on 16 October, angry at the company's plans to sack staff members that hadn't signed up to the company's 'Contract 6'- with its unacceptable working conditions - by a 2 November deadline.

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9 October 2019

Asda workers protest callous bosses

Workers organised with the GMB union protested outside more than 75 Asda stores across the UK on Thursday 3 October. Bosses have said they will fire anyone who doesn't sign up to 'Contract 6' by 2 November.

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2 October 2019

Crown Paints dispute - union senior steward speaks out

Workers, members of the GMB union, at Crown Paints in Hull have in recent weeks taken four days of strike action in pursuit of a just pay claim. Shane Allinson, GMB senior steward, has made a statement about the dispute

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2 October 2019

Hull: Construction workers' walkout forces employer to back down

The unofficial construction workers' dispute involving the building of a wood chip processing plant at Saltend Chemicals Park, in Hull, has been a struggle to prevent the blacklisting of two senior Unite and GMB union stewards - Paul Tattersfield and Keith Gibson.

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25 September 2019

Hull construction workers strike against blacklisting

Workers building a wood chip acetylation (processing) plant in Hull walked off the job in defence of trade union agreements and against blacklisting on 24 September.

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25 September 2019

Asda protests

GMB union members at 12 Asda stores around Britain staged protests on 16 September against the imposition of new, rotten terms and conditions known as 'Contract 6'

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11 September 2019

Asda workers protest against worse contract

Asda workers are being threatened with the sack if they refuse to sign a new contract which will worsen their terms and conditions.

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28 August 2019

Retail workers fight back against Scrooge bosses

Faced with a profits squeeze, big retail bosses are attempting to make workers pay by closing outlets, axing jobs and worsening terms and conditions of employment. However, this offensive is being resisted.

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28 August 2019

Merseyside Matalan workers walk out over pay deal

Workers at a Matalan warehouse and distribution centre in Knowsley, Merseyside have taken strike action against a proposed pay deal.

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28 August 2019

Harland and Wolff occupation

The GMB and Unite trade unions representing workers at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast have announced the extension of the unpaid temporary lay-off of staff until 30 September

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20 August 2019

Workers reject 'Martini' contract

Around 1,000 Asda workers, members of the GMB union, marched on Asda House in Leeds

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6 August 2019

Hull: Karro Food meat processors strike against poverty pay

A pork foods plant in Hull that hasn't witnessed a strike in 30 years is now seeing strikes each Monday organised by general union GMB

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