Thousands of RMT members are set to strike at the end of this month, as part of a wave of action on the country’s railways. To win, the unions must mobilise their full forces, and organise militant united action across the labour movement.
Next week’s Unison conference will be an arena for the struggle between a right-wing bureaucracy attempting to maintain their stifling control, and an ascendant grassroots left seeking to transform the union. The left must seize the moment.
Next week, hundreds of activists from across the public sector are meeting in Brighton for this year’s Unison national delegate conference. Young members rep Lilly Boulby looks at the challenges ahead for Unison and the trade union movement.
Last week, almost 20 UCU branches began a marking and assessment boycott. University bosses have retaliated with job cuts and lockouts of workers at several universities. Members need fighting leadership more than ever.
The Public and Commercial Services union recently met for its annual delegate conference in Brighton. With civil service workers facing job cuts, members showed clear determination to fight back. A national showdown is on the cards.
Outsourced staff at London universities are waging a struggle to be brought in-house, on decent pay. But profiteering bosses are resisting, with underhand attempts by management to intimidate workers. The unions must organise a united fightback.
Rail workers have voted overwhelmingly to strike over jobs and safety. The Tories, meanwhile, are gearing up for a showdown, with moves to escalate anti-union laws. The whole trade union movement must respond with militant, united struggle.
Delegates are meeting this week for the PCS annual conference, against a backdrop of attacks on jobs and pay for civil servants. Union activists must mobilise to win a national strike ballot, and lead the fightback against the Tories.
Police repression is being used to intimidate delivery drivers in Hackney, London, who are organising and fighting back against gig economy bosses. But the local working-class community is mobilising to support workers under attack.
Pallet workers at the CHEP depot in Trafford have scored an important win in their long-running struggle for decent pay. This shows the way forward for workers everywhere. To fight the bosses’ attacks, we need bold, determined, united action.
Grassroots activists within the British Medical Association are looking to transform the organisation into a fighting union through the ‘Doctors Vote’ campaign. This must be linked to the struggle to save the NHS with socialist policies.
This year’s CWU annual conference took place recently against a backdrop of rising tensions across the postal and telecoms sectors: at Royal Mail; at Post Offices; and at BT Group. Strikes and struggles are on the cards, as workers fight back.