9 November 2021

NSSN COP26 online workers' forum: Climate change - for a workers' transition

This forum will be an opportunity to discuss how to fight for a worker-led and trade union-controlled transition away from fossil fuels.

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20 October 2021

COP26: Trade unions must fight for a socialist transition to renewables

Capitalism won't deliver the necessary action in the timescale and scope required

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20 October 2021

Unite union policy conference

General secretary Sharon Graham pledged a pushback against the bosses' offensives.

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20 October 2021

Fight for a socialist recovery

For higher wages, permanent jobs, fully funded services. Boris Johnson and the Tories' talk of a 'high-wage economy' will stick in the throats of workers at Weetabix, Clarks and elsewhere.

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20 October 2021

University workers ballot for strike action

University and College Union (UCU) members in universities are being balloted over whether to take industrial action in two disputes

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20 October 2021

Reinstate Gary Evans! Llanelli postal workers strike

Postal deliveries in Llanelli ground to a halt on 13 October when workers at Llanelli Delivery Office walked out to force Royal Mail to reinstate Gary Evans, who has been wrongfully dismissed.

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20 October 2021

Brighton bin workers' victory in sight against Green-led council

Brighton bin strikers have voted to accept a deal that "ticks all the boxes, and more" according to GMB branch secretary Mark Turner

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20 October 2021

Fight to defend homelessness services

Councils in England have warned that the cost of homelessness services will increase by 27.2% in the next three years

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20 October 2021

Unite and fight for 30,000 permanent DWP jobs

During the pandemic, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was forced to launch emergency recruitment of more than 13,000 additional staff

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20 October 2021

Gwent valleys Stagecoach bus drivers strike for fair pay

It was pouring with rain but pickets had been out since 4am this morning at Blackwood, Cwmbran and Brynmawr Stagecoach depots fighting for a decent pay rise.

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20 October 2021

Scunthorpe scaffs strike for pay

"The picket line is here and we're not leaving": Around 60 scaffolders, members of Unite the Union, who work on the maintenance contract at British Steel in Scunthorpe, are on all-out strike to win the industry rate for the job

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20 October 2021

I'm unemployed: For me vacancy crisis is a lie

I'm writing this at 7.10am. The other night, I had an interview at a local Tesco for the night shift.

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20 October 2021

Socialist nationalisation not bailouts for the bosses

Bosses of energy-intensive industries are clamouring for government bailouts. Soaring gas prices internationally are hiking the cost of energy and threatening the profits of industry. With the threat of

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19 October 2021

Socialist Party in Unite: After Sharon Graham's victory - building a fighting left in Unite

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13 October 2021

Place Unite at the head of the anti-Tory movement

Unite policy conference 2021: It is 40 months since Unite's last policy conference in July 2018 and, in that time, the world has been shaken about

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13 October 2021

Workers need a pay rise

Prepare for coordinated trade union action: After a decade of austerity, followed by a devastating pandemic and with prices rising - workers are ready to struggle for a pay rise. Health unions Unison, RCN, Unite and GMB ran ballots on the 3% NHS pay offer over the summer, and all came back with a resounding rejection and a willingness to fight.

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13 October 2021

Who runs Unison: lay members or the paid officials?

The new NEC must start the fight to democratise Unison

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13 October 2021

March to save Stratford arts jobs from Newham Labour attacks

The campaign to save arts jobs in Stratford, east London, has called a second protest after the council reneged on promises yet again.

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13 October 2021

Ridley Road: An engaging story of fighting fascism

The new BBC 1 drama 'Ridley Road' is based on true events: the struggle against fascism in the early 1960s. It opens with the shocking scene of three characters giving Nazi salutes.

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13 October 2021

DVLA: Workers ballot on further strike action

PCS members at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) are balloting from 12 October to 10 November on whether to continue their campaign of industrial action over Covid safety.

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