Today is ‘National Posties Day’. Postal workers have offered themselves as an emergency service during the lockdown, and there have been walkouts against unsafe conditions at Royal Mail. We spoke to one CWU member about these events.
The higher education sector has not been immune from the impact of the pandemic. As in other workplaces, university bosses are attempting to make workers pay for this crisis. We must fight to drive out the scourge of outsourcing.
Important trade unions such as Unison and GMB are heavily implicated by the scandalous revelations in the leaked report into bureaucratic sabotage at Labour HQ. These events highlight the need to democratise our unions.
Faced with negligent management, postal workers have taken matters into their own hands, walking out in protest against unsafe conditions at Royal Mail. This shows why we need a public postal service, under workers’ control.
Across the country, big businesses are attempting to keep non-essential production going. We publish here a letter by a worker at a Screwfix store in London, who describes yet another example of how the bosses are putting profits before lives.
Transport workers have been put in the firing line by unscrupulous management, who have shown no concern for the health and safety of staff and passengers. The trade union leaders must give workers confidence to take action.
Workers in the North of Ireland are fighting back against bosses refusing to protect their lives. At Moy Park meat processing facility 1,000 workers downed tools and walked out. These essential workplaces must be brought under workers’ control.
In this letter to Socialist Appeal, Roy Bentham of the Blacklist Support Group and Unite the Union discusses the perilous conditions facing construction workers, as the bosses and their Tory friends keep sites open. #ShutTheSites!
The DVLA offices in Swansea, employing 6,000 workers, were kept open for weeks after the Covid-19 outbreak. Only the threat of walkouts forced the bosses to close down. Workers must organise and fight for democratic control of over their workplaces.
Thousands have been forced into the so-called ‘gig economy’ in recent years in order to make ends meet. But these workers have no access to basic rights such as sick pay. They face a deadly choice between infection and not eating.
Online clothes retailer ASOS has hit the news this week, after warehouse workers walked out in protest against unsafe conditions. Once again, we see the bosses putting profits before lives. The only solution is to put workers in control.
Postal workers have hit pause on their strike action over job cuts and conditions. Instead, they have called for Royal Mail to be transformed into an emergency service to aid the vulnerable. This requires public ownership and workers’ control.