24 February 2021

GMB members continue fight against 'fire and rehire' in British Gas

British Gas workers were back out on strike from 19 February after their strike was suspended over the previous weekend for talks.

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24 February 2021

How militant trade unionism defeated the 1971 Industrial Relations Act

Not since the 'Great Unrest' of 1911-14 and the period of strikes following World War One had there been anything like it.

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17 February 2021

Online workers' rally: Taking fight to the bosses

The National Shop Stewards Network held its 5th meeting during the pandemic

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17 February 2021

Conference - Sunday 28 February

- discussing how a movement can be built to transform education and students' lives.

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17 February 2021

Strike back for free education

This year, students have been shafted. We've been used as scapegoats by the government, treated as the personal piggy banks of the higher education sector, and many of us have been completely isolated

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17 February 2021

Hackney teaching assistants strike against cruel and unnecessary job cuts

Teaching assistants organised by general union Unite took to the streets on 10-12 February to picket against unnecessary forced redundancies.

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17 February 2021

Manchester Go North West bus drivers in all-out strike over fire and rehire dispute

Bus drivers employed by Go North West in Manchester will begin an all-out continuous strike from 28 February. The company is trying to fire and rehire its workers on vastly inferior contracts.

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17 February 2021

London bus drivers set to strike over pay and conditions

Some London bus drivers are also set to walk out over pay and conditions. Members of Unite based in several parts of the city will walk out from 22 February.

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Scaffolders on strike in Scunthorpe, photo: Alistair Tice, photo A. Tice

17 February 2021

Scaffolders' strike continues

Around 50 scaffolders, members of Unite employed by Brand Energy at Scunthorpe steelworks, are now in their fourth week of strike action

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10 February 2021

Striking workers fighting to win

British Gas engineers were on the pickets again on 5 Feb

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10 February 2021

The Socialist Inbox

Send your news, views and criticism, in not more than 150 words, to [email protected] - or if you're not online, PO Box 1398, Enfield EN1 9GT

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10 February 2021

Book that inspired me: God's bits of wood

This is a tremendous dramatised account of the successful five-month-long strike of railway workers on the Dakar to Niger railway between 1947 and 1948

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10 February 2021

Hackney schools workers to strike

Members of the Unite union and the National Education Union will be taking strike action at Colvestone and Thomas Fairchild Schools in Hackney, London on 10, 11 and 12 February over job losses and reorganisation

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3 February 2021

Socialist Students open letter to Rent Strike network

Building the fightback for free education

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3 February 2021

Workplace news in brief

Workers in two separate industrial disputes affecting schools in east London will take three days of strike action in February.

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3 February 2021

Yorkshire aerospace workers strike against pay disparity

Despite the snowy weather, members of union Unite working on a Babcock Aerospace contract in Yorkshire providing operational and engineering service at RAF Leeming were out on the picket lines on 2 February

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2 February 2021

Caerphilly & RCT Socialist Party: Defend the democratic rights to protest and strike

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27 January 2021

Low-paid hospital workers strike

Two disputes by low-paid hospital workers in Birmingham and Reading are taking place. Heartlands hospital workers in Birmingham work directly for the NHS, and those at the Royal Berkshire are contracted

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27 January 2021

British Gas engineers continue strike against fire-and-rehire plans

"You need to support this because you could be next"

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27 January 2021

Sage care workers strike again: Billionaires refuse to pay up

Care workers in a London nursing home are striking from 4 Feb

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