Following 65 days of tireless strike action, bus drivers at Go North West have scored an important victory in driving back the bosses’ fire-and-rehire attempts. This provides an inspiring example for other workers facing similar attacks.
Nominations open tomorrow in the race to succeed Len McCluskey as Unite general secretary. Howard Beckett is standing on a fighting programme, both industrially and politically. It is vital that the trade union movement has a militant leadership.
Workers at Norwich City Council are stirring after being forced onto worse contracts. Instead of implementing austerity, Labour councils must organise a mass fightback against the cuts. The labour movement needs militant leadership.
Higher education workers are facing attacks on multiple fronts: on jobs, wages, conditions, and pensions. Marketisation and profit are destroying our universities. Workers and students must unite and fight for a socialist alternative.
While Big Pharma have made bumper profits from the pandemic, community pharmacies and frontline pharmacy workers have struggled. Public sector workers across the board need to unite and fight – to save our NHS and all vital services.
British Gas has sacked hundreds of workers who would not sign up to worse contracts. ‘Fire and rehire’ has become the bosses’ go-to weapon for attacking pay and conditions. The labour movement must wage a united militant campaign to defeat it.
Campaigning is currently underway in the Unison NEC elections, with a slate of grassroots activists standing. A sectarian approach by others, however, risks splitting the left vote. We urge union members to back #TimeForRealChange candidates.
Workers at Goodlord software company in London have been striking back against attackson wages and conditions. Their struggle is one that workers across the board are facing.The labour movement must offer their full solidarity and support.
Hundreds of workers at the DVLA offices in Swansea are currently on strike, demanding safe working conditions in the face of management’s recklessness. The whole labour movement must offer their full support and solidarity in this struggle.
Infamous food delivery company Deliveroo is going public on the stock market tomorrow, with investors looking to profit from the exploitation of ‘gig economy’ workers. But couriers are organising and striking back. Solidarity with the riders!
The Tories recently announced plans for an overhaul of the UK military, with increased spending on arms and nuclear weapons. ‘Patriotic’ Starmer has welcomed these proposals. Instead, Labour and the unions must offer a socialist response.
Unite members at coffee company Douwe Egberts are the latest workers to organise against fire-and-rehire proposals by callous bosses. A united and militant struggle is needed across the labour movement against this scandalous scourge.