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Cabinet Office sets out plan for bringing services like cleaning and security back in-house
JD WETHERSPOON’S decision to bring forward an annual pay rise for staff shows “the power that we have when we work together,” activists said today.
The chain has brought forward a pay rise due in February next year to this November.
Workers at The Bright Helm and The Post & Telegraph in Brighton, who are currently being balloted for strike action for recognition of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) and a £10 hourly rate, said the pay rise showed the pub chain was afraid of organised workers.
Solidarity is needed for the longest strike in NHS history, argues HENRY FOWLER of Strike Map
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR