Workers at the Fawley oil refinery are continuing their struggle over pay and conditions. With the bosses digging their heels in, it is vital that the strike spreads. The labour movement must offer solidarity and fight for workers’ control.
Dock workers in Felixstowe and Liverpool have recently taken coordinated action in struggles for real pay rises. Such tactics should be employed across the whole movement, to topple the Tories and the bosses’ system.
The last year has seen a wave of strikes across industry, with a number of important victories recorded by Unite members under Sharon Graham’s leadership. The lesson is clear: to win, workers need unity, militant action, and socialist policies.
Strikes are breaking out across Britain’s bus network, as drivers fight for decent wages and conditions. And recent victories in the North West provide a vital lesson for the whole labour movement: militancy pays.
Hundreds of dock workers have brought Britain’s busiest port to a standstill, in a dispute over pay. This shows the potential power that workers hold – a power that must be harnessed through militant struggle for a bold socialist alternative.
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.
London Arriva bus drivers staged a 48 hr strike at three garages in south London, to fight for better pay. They are an inspiration to workers everywhere in how to combat the cost of living crisis. The time has come for united action across the unions.
The strike of bin lorry drivers at Coventry city council continues to intensify, with the employers digging their heels in and the union upping the ante. Support is growing for the workers. To win, the strike must now escalate and spread.
Refuse workers at Coventry city council remain determined in their fight for fair pay. Strike-breaking antics and victimisation by the employers has only hardened the resolve. The labour movement must launch a mass fightback against austerity.
Council workers organised in Unite have voted against a pathetic below-inflation pay offer, setting the scene for strike action. Trade unions leaders must organise members to take coordinated action, and launch a militant fightback.
Refuse collection drivers in Coventry, organised in Unite, are nearing the end of their seventh week of strike action. And with the council going to great efforts to break the strike, the mood amongst the workers is growing increasingly militant.
Refuse workers at Labour-controlled Coventry city council are continuing their strike for decent pay. The employers, meanwhile, are stepping up their scandalous strike-breaking attempts. We say: Support the strikers! Victory to the workers!