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.
Unite members at Fawley refinery are fighting for a real pay rise and proper sick pay. Their determination, unity, and militancy in the face of the bosses’ attacks are an inspiration for workers in struggle everywhere.
Across the world, new layers of workers are being drawn into the struggle to defend their lives and livelihoods. In the process, they are getting organised and transforming the trade union movement. This is a harbinger of the battles to come.
Marxist activists across the globe joined 1st May demonstrations over the weekend, commemorating International Workers’ Day. With the bosses on the attack, and workers moving into action, it is time for the unions to prepare for battle.
Following multiple rounds of strike action, the long-running dispute between UCU members and university bosses remains at a stalemate. Union leaders are looking to deflate the struggle. Instead, we need escalation and a militant fightback.