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20 January 2021
Morrisons - £10/hr headline hides divisive pay offer
Almost five years since the £10 an hour minimum wage demand was adopted by Usdaw, Morrisons has become the first major company in which Usdaw represents workers, to accept the demand.
20 January 2021
Make the super-rich pay, not the poorest
In the last week the real number of deaths from Covid has gone over 100,000, and the UK has recorded the highest per capita death toll in the world
13 January 2021
Bosses earn workers' annual wage in three days
Within the first three days of 2021, the already super-rich bosses of the 'FTSE 100' companies earned more than an average worker's annual salary.
6 January 2021
Nottingham City Council: Major battles against cuts ahead
Nottingham's Labour Council faces a decisive choice: whether it defends services, jobs and terms and conditions, or implements major cuts.
9 December 2020
Welsh trades councils rally against the pay-freeze
Speakers from several unions called for an end to the public sector pay freeze.
9 December 2020
South London council workers vote to strike
Greenwich Council housing maintenance staff have returned a thumping 97% 'yes' vote for strike action in a ballot over plans to slash wages by up to £20,000
2 December 2020
Pay freeze protest Homerton Hospital
Around twelve NHS staff held a socially distanced protest at Homerton Hospital against Rishi Sunak's pay freeze, on Wednesday 25 November
23 September 2020
A day in the life of a salon worker
I work in a salon in Cardiff. It was bad before the pandemic began, and some employers are using the crisis to either drag more work out of their staff for little to no more rewards, or to cut hours, cut
2 September 2020
Even before Covid-19, poorer secondary school students were the equivalent of 18 months' learning behind better-off students
3 June 2020
Council finance disaster: set emergency no-cuts budgets and fight for funds!
Local authorities in Britain are tasked with meeting local social needs arising from the coronavirus pandemic and its economic consequences. They have never been in a worse position to do so.
20 May 2020
Crisis in council services: Labour must fight or stand aside
A £10 billion financial black hole faces councils, according to a Labour Party report
22 April 2020
JD Sports: Shut up shop and give us full pay!
JD Sports workers have been organising to demand the company close its warehouse, and pay all shop-floor and warehouse workers full pay for the duration of this crisis, writes a JD Sports worker.
22 January 2020
Make a stand: set legal no-cuts council budgets
Defend jobs, services and communities. Reports from Carmarthenshire, Peterborough, Swansea, Enfield
4 December 2019
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles.
27 November 2019
End council cuts now, to end Tory austerity!
A decade of attacks on the working class has sharply hit local councils.
20 November 2019
Long hours in the world of security
He said he had started at 4am and would be working till 8pm, and then going on to work on the door at a pub
31 July 2019
Labour promises to end council privatisation: councils must do that now!
Labour needs to send a clear message to the working class, because that is not what we see in our workplaces and communities
19 June 2019
Council cuts continue while reserves rise
Local authorities in England are sitting on almost £22 billion of financial reserves, £5 billion more than the year before, the Sunday Times reports, writes Dave Walsh, Liverpool council worker and Unite member.
12 June 2019
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5 June 2019
Laughable research denies low-pay scandal
That's how many young adults will have felt when, sat in their bedsits, back living in childhood bedrooms, or sitting in their single rented room in a shared house, they read that actually they are benefiting from better pay according to the Resolution Foundation.
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Bus workers under attack and fighting back
Manchester indefinite bus strike against 'fire and rehire'
HMRC: Pay deal agreed but at what cost?
Sparks force bosses back but fight continues to stamp out deskilling
Reinstate victimised bus driver Declan Clune
IT workers walkout against 'fire and rehire'
Why we need socialists in London city hall
Stop domestic abuse service closures in Brighton
Swansea BLM protest against racist police brutality
Union fight to save musicians' livelihoods
Labour surrenders to Tories in Devon
Determined to smash the fighting fund target to fuel election challenge in May
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