More refuse collection workers to strike over pay

MORE strikes over pay are set to hit refuse collection as workers warn that they are relying on benefits and foodbanks to make ends meet.

Editorial: Shapps's repressive wish list shows unions are starting to win

THE ferocious anti-union wish list published in the Daily Mail by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps shows the government is running scared.

Striking workers to address rallies across Wales

WORKERS across Wales taking industrial action will have their voices heard in a series of major rallies at the weekend.

Editorial: Wages, price and profit: time for a reckoning with the corporate profiteers

THE fastest fall in real pay on record explodes Establishment lies about a “wage-price spiral.” 

Big businesses must ‘get real on pay,’ unions demand as workers face record slump in wages

Prospect condemns government plans to cut redundancy payments of 90,000 civil servants facing sacking

TRADE unionists condemned the government today for its plans to cut the redundancy payments of 90,000 civil servants it intends to sack.

Editorial: Peterloo remembered: our radical history has lessons for today's striking workers

STRIKES are multiplying. Train drivers’ action at the weekend will be followed by other transport workers this week. 

Thousands mark anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre and issue call for radical political change

THOUSANDS of people marched in Manchester today to mark the anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre and heard calls for radical political change.

Thousands of health workers in Scotland vote in favour of industrial action over pay

THOUSANDS of health workers in Scotland have voted to take industrial action in protest against what they describe as a “real terms pay cut.”

New public mood backs train drivers striking this weekend, says Aslef leader Mick Whelan

TRAIN drivers striking at nine operating companies today can be assured of widespread public support, their union leader Mick Whelan told the Morni