While university workers strike over pay and conditions, undergraduate students are also suffering from the cost-of-living crisis, with huge real-terms cuts to maintenance loans. Students and staff must unite and fight for free education.
Following several rounds of walkouts, and with the Tories refusing to budge, nurses are set to step up their strike action over pay and conditions. To win, health workers must unite with other unions and fight for a clear socialist alternative.
UCU members in higher education will be out on strike again from tomorrow, continuing their fight over pay, pensions, and conditions. Debates are taking place in the union about how to advance the struggle. Indefinite action is needed to win.
Civil servants are continuing their struggle over pay, pensions, jobs, and conditions – and are leading the way by coordinating action with other unions. The whole labour movement must mobilise together to kick out the Tories and end austerity.
Following a decade of real pay losses and one in five jobs cut, the FBU has voted to join the strike wave sweeping the country. We speak here with David Pike, secretary of the Manchester FBU, about the ballot and the conditions leading to it.
Sector after sector of workers are joining the growing strike wave. Further coordinated walkouts are in store, following Wednesday’s day of action. To strengthen the movement, these struggles need to be united and organised from top to bottom.
1 February was the biggest day of coordinated strike action in over a decade, with half a million out on strike. We spoke to workers at picket lines and demos up and down the country about their fight against the bosses’ attacks and the Tories’ anti-union bill.
Tomorrow will see mass coordinated action between teachers, rail workers, civil servants, and lecturers. The Tories are preparing for class war, curbing the right to strike. The unions must defy these laws, and organise a militant fightback.
This Wednesday, teachers across England and Wales will be walking out in a protest over pay, workloads, and conditions. It is vital that students offer solidarity to striking staff, in order to defend schools against austerity and academisation.
Compulsory redundancies are on the cards at the University of East Anglia – a reflection of the dire situation facing higher education institutions everywhere. Workers and students must come together to fight against austerity and marketisation.
With elections underway for Unite’s new executive council, a clear divide is emerging within the union. On one side is an old left calling for compromise with the bosses and Tories. On the other are grassroots activists demanding militant action.
Nominations are underway for the latest NEC elections in Unison, Britain’s public sector behemoth. With the class struggle sharpening, it is vital that the left learns the lessons of recent events, and mobilises militantly to transform the union.